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Facing the Challenges of the Humanities and Social Sciences: the IIUM Way
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

There is a strong commonality between Islam and the humanities and social sciences in the sense that both encompass heterogeneous aspects of human life and its conditions and experiences. However, divergence between these two entities is palpable, as the conventional humanities and social sciences look at life from a secular perspective. Some disci

Religious Extremism Versus Extremes of Desacralisation: Rethinking the Status of Religious Education
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Religion has been part and parcel of human history and heritage. It has served as a useful companion to man in the journey of intellectual growth,which has in most of the cases, helped humanity to answer, in various forms, the basic questions of life. Though religion has been a useful companion to man, yet religious thought has never been without c

The Physical Characteristics of an Islamic Garden: Studies of the Andalusian Gardens
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

A garden, in general, is a space design for the purpose of relaxation and recreation. Whereas, an Islamic garden is a garden that arises during the peak of Muslim civilization. The garden is created as a platform to remember the ones of God as He is the creator of the universe. The establishment of the Islamic garden spanned from the seventh centur

An Islamic Reading of Marie Stopes’ Married Love
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Marie Carmichael Stopes‟ identity as the pioneer of family planning may come as a shock to many Muslims who regard contraceptive practices as forbidden. Her most influential book Married Love (1918) may cause a double fold negative impression among them as it is both a manual of sexual intercourse and a treatise of birth-control campaign. It puts

Muslim Jurists’ Opinions on Modern in Vitro Fertilization (Ivf) Practices: its Health and Social Implications on Mothers
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Fertility is the natural ability to produce offspring or the state of being fertile, which reflects the ability or the natural quality of reproducing animal offspring. In the normal circumstances, fertilization takes place in a natural way, as long as the couple is health, having sexual intercourse and without using preventive measures and practice

‘dealing with the Western Intellectual Heritage’: Reading twentieth-Century English Literature in Light of Alwani’s Sixth Discourse
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Before English literature was given institutional prominence as a subject of study in the colony, Christian missionary activities – that combine religious and educational endeavors – had been used as a tool to desensitize the colonized to the horrors and dehumanizing effects of colonial expansionism. Later, as Terry Eagleton maintains, religion

Classification of Defaulters in the Payment of Debt in Islamic Banking Practices
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

This paper discusses the issue of treatment of debt defaulters from SharÊ'ah perspective and its current practices in Islamic banking and finance. In doing so, the paper first explains the concept of debt and its payment obligation from Islamic point of view. The paper also critically reviews the current practice of treating defaulters by Isla

Islamic Perspectives on twentieth-Century English Literature
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

There is a tendency to regard (English) literature as beyond the pale of religion and conventional morality. Advocates of the postulates of the art for art’s sake school are perhaps predisposed to dismiss academic endeavours of relating Islam to literary discussion. This is despite the fact that there are millions of Muslim students of English li

The Rohingya Crisis: Suu Kyi’s False Flag and Ethnic Cleansing in Arakan
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Any discussion on the Rohingya crisis without using the term ‘genocide’ would amount to an affront to the human dignity of the Rohingya people – both the genocide casualties and survivors. Any remedy effort will remain elusive or inconclusive if the full extent of the crimes is not comprehended or recognized. It is very hard to see any immedi

bio-Inspired Computation: Recent Development on the Modifications of the Cuckoo Search Algorithm
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Presently, the Cuckoo Search algorithm is attracting unprecedented attention from the research community and applications of the algorithm are expected to increase in number rapidly in the future. The purpose of this study is to assist potential developers in selecting the most suitable cuckoo search variant, provide proper guidance in future modif

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