Amalan sistem kewangan Islam di Malaysia telah melalui sejarah perkembangan yang tersendiri sejajar dengan perubahan era pemerintahan yang berlaku dari zaman dahulu hingga sekarang. Bermula dari zaman Kesultanan Melayu Melaka, sistem kewangan yang berdasarkan hukum Islam telah diguna pakai seperti mana yang termaktub di dalam Hukum Kanun Melaka ata

In the history of South Asian literature in English, Men and Rivers is the third fictional work written by a Muslim author after Rokeya's Sultana's Dream and Ahmed Ali's Twilight in Delhi (1940). Men and Rivers is a literary work of great merit though more research needs to be conducted on the work to appreciate its value by examining v

I read Sisters in the Mirror from cover to cover and highly recommend it to readers. This foundational text marks a significant contribution to feminist debates and Muslim women's writing and is an incredible resource for students and researchers working in the field of global/transnational feminism and South Asian Muslim women. It provides a c

I am not very sure when Bangladesh will see another February 27, 1991 election that set a historic record of fairness under the watch of Shahabuddin Ahmed. In order to treasure the moment of democratic exhilaration that all of us experienced on that day, can’t we declare it the Day of Democracy in Bangladesh? I believe that will be a great way to

Many locate the origin of courtly love that is portrayed widely in European literature in the works of Arabic literary traditions (Dangler 16), and in such discussions Ibn Hazm’s Tawq is often mentioned as a principal inspiration for the European literary artists who depict courtly love that entails a love triangle involving an aristocratic marri

Yusuf al-Qaradawi was not a scholar of my field, English literature. Nor was he Western�educated. Many may find it strange that I put pen to paper to write an essay on a writer who is not a prominent figure in my discipline. It is the magnitude of his scholarly legacy that interests me most. I regard Qaradawi as a man of letters, and I am impress

Debate is a form of dialogue that involves claims and counterclaims, and rebuttals and counter-rebuttals. Freedom of speech and equal opportunity are indispensable elements in any debating exercise. In the Belgrade WUDC, each of the four teams and each of the eight team members had equal amounts of time and opportunity to make and defend their argu

The key message in Rokeya's writing is the need to ensure justice for all and in all aspects of life that include gender egalitarianism. In a society where justice as a basic principle of the rule of law disappears, all of its disadvantaged sections including women suffer. In present-day Bangladesh, the political underdogs continue to bear the

If expressions of du’aa do not come from the heart and if people only say them as civil utterances or type them on the screen as niceties, they may not be efficacious from a religious point of view. Therefore, supplications for oneself and for others should be profound acts of submission and obedience to God, and only then it can be hoped that th

ssociating Islam with fearful concepts and the one-sided caricaturing of Muslims as mired in fanaticism have now become clichés. However, it is hard to miss the stark contrast between the media treatments of the two similar incidents that happened within a span of less than 24 hours and in the same country (USA). Rightly, the religion of Ricky W.