Peta Pemikiran Fiqh Pasca Madzhab

PETA Regulatory Testing , PETA

The following comments are submitted on behalf of the more than 1.4 million members and supporters of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) and the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) in response to the nominations of substances to NTP for study in 2007 (March 29, 2007; Federal Register 72(60):14816-14818). PETA and PCRM are committed to using the best available sc...

Peta-Scale Computing

In a few short years, computers capable of over one Petaflops performance will become a reality. The most likely approach for first successfully reaching this performance level will involve several thousands of parallel processing elements. What are the key considerations for building such systems? What are the software requirements and demands? How will applications scale? How reliable are the...

Reading Adab as Fiqh: al-Ǧa

PETA continues to claw at Columbia scientists.

Methods and Methodologies in Fiqh and Islamic Economics

This paper intends to examine the methods of reasoning that are employed in Fiqh and critically discuss their adoption in Islamic economics. The paper argues that the methods used in Fiqh are mainly designed to find out whether or not a certain act is permissible or prohibited. Islamic economics, on the other hand, is a social science. Like any other social science its proper unit of analysis i...