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Reconfigurations of Islamic Authority in Malaysia: State Control of Islam and the Role of the Ulama
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The role and status of religious authority needs to be read into Malaysian political history over the past fifty years. During this period as the Malaysian state constructed its national identity and plotted its policy course, the role of Islam and religious leaders became an important point of debate. It is within this context that this article co

Systemization of Knowledge Inquiry in Islamic Thought: the Case of al-Raghib al-Asfahani
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Creativity, innovation and problem solving are results of systematic inquiry. Inventions of nature are always superior to human inventions; therefore, human intellect observes the systems of the natural and human phenomena, based on two major modes of thinking styles: (1) the analytic mode that focuses on individual facts, and (2) synthetic mode wh

Attitudes and Motivation Toward Learning the English Language Among Students from Islamic Education System Background: Exploring the Views of Teachers
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

According to [1], motivation is one of the main determinants of second language (L2) or foreign language performance. Research in the field of attitudes and motivation has increasingly investigated the nature and role of motivation in L2 learning process, and many are inspired by Canadian psychologists, Robert Gardner and Wallace Lambert [1]. Howev

General Characteristics of Islamic Philosophy of Education: How it is Relevant to Society of Globalizing World
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

The major aim of this paper is to highlight the general characteristics of Islamic philosophy of education. The basic assumption of the paper is that the Islamic philosophy of education is relevant to the needs of globalizing society, due to certain factors. For that purpose, the four basic educational questions on the recipient, the content, objec

Meaning Makers at Work: How do Above Average and Average Students Make Sense of English and Bahasa Literary Texts?
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

This study seeks to explore the relationship between eight types of comprehension questions and eight types of coded discourse units which are based on the eight subskills of Lunzer and Gardner (1979). In general each reasoning strategy used by selected above average and average readers in response to each test item is interpreted and categorized a

Video Quality Challenges in Wireless Networks
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Wireless support is now available in most devices. Streaming video over networks is a big challenge that faced by most companies working in technology development. Giving the best quality and high throughput performance is an ongoing issue. The quality depends on many factors likes bound rates and stringency of the delay bounds and the characterist

Determination of Total Phenolic, Flavonoid Content and Free Radical Scavenging Activities of Common Herbs and Spices.
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Antioxidants present in herbs and spices could be an effective tool to prevent the non-communicable diseases like cancer, diabetes and myocardial infarction as they have the capacity to stabilize the free radicals which are one of the causative factors of these diseases. This study aims to quantify the total phenolic and flavonoid content of common

Visitors' Visual Responses Towards Daylighting in Historic Museum Galleries in Malaysia
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

Daylighting in historic buildings is not an easy criterion to manage as natural light fluctuates according to the sky conditions. Many visual comfort issues are associated to high illuminance levels, glare, high contrast areas, lack of visual adaptation and overheating. Daylighting in urban museum galleries in Malaysia remained an area that is lack

Managing Information and information-Related Technology: Enabling decision-Making in Flood Management
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

It is recognized that Malaysia must establish effective flood management (FM) practices in order to reduce the impact of disasters upon the country’s economic development and growth. This article seeks to examine the non-structural aspects of FM. To date, governance has been identified as a crucial element by which to drive effective management o

Environmental Ethics from the Qur’nic Philosophy
Research Output | Dar Al-hikmah Library | IIUM Only

The Environmental Ethics (EE) refers to the justice of human beings with non-human beings as well as rule to Development of the Natural Environment (DNE). In fact, safety of the environment is a big challenge of the 21st century for environmentalists. Indeed, not only the natural ecologists responsible for save of environment, but also everybody ca

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