IJTIHAD SCIENTIFIC DALAM HUKUM ISLAM (Refleksi Metodologis Penemuan Hukum Islam)

Authors: Ray Chambers* and Hukum Chandra*

An accurate estimate of the uncertainty associated with a parameter estimate is important if we want to avoid misleading inference. The bootstrap technique (Efron, 1979; Efron and Tisbshirani, 1993) is a very general way of measuring the accuracy of estimators, and was originally developed for parameter estimation given independent identically distributed (i.i.d.) data. However, random effects ...

Islam Almasri_TOCSJ

Recently, a number of methods have been proposed to improve image retrieval accuracy by capturing context information. These methods try to compensate for the fact that a visually less similar image might be more relevant because it depicts the same object. We propose a new quick method for refining any pairwise distance metric, it works by iteratively discovering the object in the image from t...

Islam in local contexts: Localised Islam in Northern Pakistan

As Clifford Geertz remarked in his Islam Observed (1968), the idea of a ‘changing’ religion is a contradiction in terms, as religion is fundamentally concerned with what is permanent and eternal. Still, one way to come to terms with religious change is to consider the many ways that religion is interpreted, by laymen and scholars alike. Social anthropologists like myself have naturally found a ...

Islam in the West: From Immigration to Global Islam

Human Genetics and Islam: Scientific and Medical Aspects

OBJECTIVE To relate diverse aspects of genetics and its applications to concepts in the Glorious Qur'an and the ḥadīth. STUDY DESIGN The author compared passages from the Glorious Qur'an and ḥadīth with modern concepts in genetics, such as recessive inheritance, genetic counseling, genetic variation, cytoplasmic inheritance, sex chromosomes, genetics-environment interactions, gender determina...