Subject(s): Wahhabiyah -- Doctrines | Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Usul al-Din and Comparative Religion -- IIUM Summary: This research seeks to determine the accuracy of the presumptive definition given to the terminology Wahhabi and also to uncover the origin of the terminology, the historical background, and the teachings of Wahha

Subject(s): Islam -- Maldives | Maldives -- Religious life and customs | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: This study aims to reveal the reality about the Maldivian religious culture that exists today and how it affects civilized Maldivian society after several centuries since

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Psychology -- IIUM Summary: There is strong evidence which suggests that the task of choosing a single job candidate from a small set of comparable finalists can be influenced by the contextual factor of attraction effect. The present study examined the influence of decoy and phantom candidat

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechanical Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Pipeline vibration problems are well-known and become significant issues in many fields especially in the oil and gas sectors. The main goal of this work is to analyse the fluid-induced vibration phenomena for large pipelines. Understanding the dynamic

Subject(s): Nanofluids | Graphene | Heat -- Transmission | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Heat transfer fluids (HTFs) have characteristically poor heat transfer transport efficiency due to their low thermal conductivities (TC’s) which significantly limits their application as coolant in modern high-tech i

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Architecture and Environmental Design -- IIUM Summary: The secularism has brought enormous shifts to the meaning of Islamic aesthetics that caused variance in interpretations of aesthetics and art between Islamic and secular ideologies. Despite many studies in Islamic aesthetics in various dis

Subject(s): Islam and literature | English literature -- Islamic influences | English language -- Study and teaching Foreign speakers | Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences -- IIUM Summary: Students from an Islamic educational background would normally employ stored ‎knowledge about Islam in th

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Biotechnology Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Biodiesel has become one of the leading options to replace fossil fuels as a source of energy and traditionally uses edible plants as they have high acid values, which in turn produce high quality oil. Current methods of producing biodiesel generate

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Kulliyyah of Engineering -- IIUM Summary: Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes (VACNTs), or better known as CNT forests have many potentials in engineering applications due to its exceptional properties. Patterning of the CNT forest is important for its useful application in Micro-Electromechanical System (

Subject(s): Dissertations, Academic -- Department of Mechanical Engineering -- IIUM Summary: A controlled selection of subjects reflecting the ethnic, age, gender and anthropometric spread of the Nigerian population similar to that undertaken by automotive companies was conducted. A total of 863 subjects comprising 460 males and 403 females par