Background In order to minimize the possibility of unsuccessful dental extraction procedure due to dental anxiety, there are several approaches that can be used, including music intervention. Objective The objective of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of classical and religious Islamic music on reducing dental anxiety. Materials and methods Two hundred and twenty-five musl...

The objective of this paper is to review the multicultural nature of Australian society, with a specific focus on the Islamic culture. Islamic principles will be presented and the impact this has on the health-care provision of Muslim people will be explored. This paper highlights issues that Muslim patients face when hospitalized in Australia. Australia has seen a major shift in its society, f...

“Learning organization” is one of the famous organizational theories and approaches to organizational development and empirical researches have been done on its implementation and application in various sectors and cultural settings. This paper explores the concept of learning organization from an Islamic perspective following an interest in applying the concept in all types of organization. A ...

In the last two decades one of the key questions that has occupied many feminist theorists is how should issues of historical and cultural specificity inform both the analytics and politics of any feminist project. Although this questioning has resulted in serious attempts at integrating issues of sexual, racial, class, and national difference within feminist theory, questions of religious diff...

Islamic Banking is growing at a rapid speed and has showed unprecedented growth and expansion in last two decades in spite of mismatching of existing financial framework and business practices. By the end of 2008 volume of Islamic banking has reached to US $ 951 Billion with operation in more than 50 countries. Middle East is the centre of Islamic banking with contribution of approximately 80% ...

The scope, methodology and tools of Islamic bioethics as a self-standing discipline remain open to debate. Physicians, sociologists, Islamic law experts, historians, religious leaders as well as policy and health researchers have all entered the global discussion attempting to conceptualize Islamic bioethics. Arguably, the implications of Islamic bioethical discourse is most significant for hea...

The purpose of the research paper is to examine and compare the risk management practices of Conventional and Islamic banks in Pakistan. A modified questionnaire on six aspects understanding risk and risk management, risk identification, risk assessment and analysis, risk monitoring, risk management practices and credit risk analysis, has been used containing 45 questions of likert scale. A tot...

The main purpose of the study is to examine the willingness of the Moroccan customers to adopt Islamic banking services and the factors that may influence their decision. A total of 200 questionnaires were randomly distributed to Moroccan banking customers, out of which 146 were properly filled and returned. Multiple regression and one sample t-test were subsequently applied. The results showed...