Women's rights in Islam have remained a controversial subject for decades, partly contributed by misconceptions in translating the law into practical reality. In another dimension; many cultural practices commonly practised by Muslims; particularly in Muslim countries often reflect negative treatment towards women. Therefore, this chapter will

In this paper, we present an enhanced heterogeneous tree based key management scheme for security of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Our scheme combines efficiently different key management techniques in each architecture level and also it has a dynamic key renewal process. Here, whenever a node is compromised, key renewal is done by one way hash

In recent years there has been growing awareness regarding the role of religion and spirituality (R/S) in the practice of clinical medicine. Despite hundreds of articles in professional journals on the subject, little is known about physician beliefs regarding the influence of religion on health. We aim to assess the beliefs and observations of phy

This article attempts to determine the role of financial inclusion in promoting shared prosperity in some selected Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. This paper will also clarify the role of Islamic microfinance institutions to reduce inequality by promoting financial inclusion. Even though various strategies have been adopted by different govern

Introduction: The term euthanasia or Mercy killing is in essence the termination of life of a terminally ill patient at his request or in his interest. Due to increase in ageing population with extremely limited physical and mental capacities, the issue is being discussed in a number of jurisdictions in favour of its legalization. However there is

A financial network comprises nodes that are connected by links to represent the correlation between the stocks. Many researchers have been using the financial network to show the intercorrelation between stocks, especially during major events such as the global financial crisis. Even so, there are too little researchers conducted to observe the co

Semi-active control devices have received significant attention in recent years because they offer the adaptability of active control devices without requiring the associated large power sources. Magneto-rheological (MR) dampers are semi-active control devices that use MR fluids to produce controllable dampers. They potentially offer highly reliabl

This book revolves around the issues on the formation of contract under Common Law and also Islamic Law. All the elements of contract are discussed in detail in this book. The author has made a comparison on the issues between Common Law and Islamic Law to give the reader a clear understanding of the elements of contract and all other issues in con

Introduction Meaning should be the main preoccupation of all translations. However, the process of meaning transfer is not as straightforward as it seems to be especially when it deals with culturally-embedded expressions (Al-Zoubi and Al-Hasanawi, 2001). This is supported by the fact that each language has its own sets of meaning which are distinc

Speak English The Right Way is written based on a research done on learners' spoken corpus in higher learning institutions. It deals with essential social expressions that most learners fall short of using in the spoken form. This book thus fills this gaps. The approach is based on the natural way of learning a language. Listening to spoken Eng