This article focuses on the idea of Islamic Literature which began in the Arab world through the writings of Muhammad Qutb, Syed Qutb, Naj ib al - Kilani, Emaduddin Khalil and a few others who came after them, influenced by their ideas. Later, concepts or theories of Islamic Literature began to take shape among the writers. In Malaysia, the concept

Objectives: To investigate the socio-demographic influences on OHQoL perceived by periodontitis patients. Materials and method: A cross-sectional descriptive and analytical study was conducted among 80 chronic periodontitis patients. The Malaysian version of OHQoL-UK index was applied to explore the patients’ perception on OHQoL in terms of four

This article discusses about some Muslim literary figures were and still under the influence of the West. During the colonial periods, through education and cu ltural encounters, a new generation of locals who were imbued with Western orientation emerged. The newly westernized locals later occupied significant positions the society and government.

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the competence, performance, and trainability of older workers of higher educational institutions in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – Survey methods were used in this study. The survey measures were adopted from Rothwell (2002) and Sarmiento et al. (2007) for performance and competenc

Social network sites (SNSs) have been used to bring people close to each other across the globe, especially the youth. It is important to find out the matching of types of SNSs to the motives for using them and toward fitting the profile of youth in Malaysia for the SNSs concerned. Specifically, this study tries (1) to find out the types of SNSs su

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the work challenges of employees with disabilities and predict the organisational behaviours of employees and their involvement in employment. Design/methodology/approach – A self-developed questionnaire was used to gather relevant information from employers, employees with disabilities and thei

Networks, contacts and power are very important for career success. As such this article tries to (a) find out the use of social network sites for social and/or professional purposes, (b) examine the differences between the internal contact and the external contact used by employees, (c) ascertain the differences between information power and relat

Religious film plays an import role in educating the viewers, especially the youth. This study tries to compare the results of the experimental group (N=141) to the control group (N=150) on perception of, attitude on, and impact change from watching Islamic film. Specifically, it analyses the effect of an Islamic short film on youth behavioral chan

Emotions are postulated to be generated at the brain. To capture the brain activities during emotional processing, several neuro-imaging techniques have been adopted, including electroencephalogram (EEG). In the existing studies, different techniques have been employed to extract features from EEG signals for emotion classification. However, existi

Several studies have been performed to profile emotions using EEG signals through affective computing approach. It includes data acquisition, signal pre-processing, feature extraction and classification. Different combinations of feature extraction and classification techniques have been proposed. However, the results are subjective. Very few studi