In Indonesia, there were many kingdoms in the past, one of which was Sumedang Larang Kingdom. is an Islamic kingdom under control Pajajaran Through history, a nation will be able to recognize origin its own nation. Therefore, teaching about history very important instilled from early age. rapid development technology, today not only form formal teaching, but also informal teaching. Nowadays, ca...

Since the 1980s, Islamic scholars and medical experts have used the tools of Islamic law to formulate ethico-legal opinions on brain death. These assessments have varied in their determinations and remain controversial. Some juridical councils such as the Organization of Islamic Conferences' Islamic Fiqh Academy (OIC-IFA) equate brain death with cardiopulmonary death, while others such as the I...

Contemporary research on investment behaviour in Islamic perspective, most of the time, finds it expedient to assume zero rate of time preference in an Islamic economy. The author argues that there is no justification for that. According to him, there is nothing against positive time preference or against realizing a time value of money in an Islamic framework, as long as time value of money is...

Context-aware systems must be interoperable and work across different platforms at any time and in any place. Context data collected from wireless body area networks (WBAN) may be heterogeneous and imperfect, which makes their design and implementation difficult. In this research, we introduce a model which takes the dynamic nature of a context-aware system into consideration. This model is con...

Conventional credit card transactions are not consistent with Islamic principles, as exemplified by the Islamic banking system and the ‘Murabaha sale’. Thus, if Islamic principles are to be applied to e-commerce, where credit card transactions are the norm, a new and secure electronic payment process is required. In this paper we present a method for secure electronic Murabaha transactions. Aft...

This study is aimed at examining the long run and short run relationships between both Islamic and conventional financial development with the economic growth in the Bahrain dual financial system. Using quarterly data (2000:1-2010:4) retrieved from Monthly Statistical Bulletin of Central bank of Bahrain (CBB) and International Financial Statistics (IFS) of International Monetary Funds (IMF), th...

This study is aimed at investigating the dimensions of customer satisfaction in Indonesia Islamic banking industry and how those dimensions could affect the customers’ switching behavior. Data collection is done by using self administered questionnaire and involves as many as 732 Islamic bank customers from the area of Jakarta. The methods used in this study are factor analysis and logistic reg...

Islamic bioethics is in good health, this article argues. During the twentieth century, academic researchers had to deal with a number of difficulties including the scarcity of available Islamic sources. However, the twenty-first century witnessed significant breakthroughs in the field of Islamic bioethics. A growing number of normative works authored by Muslim religious scholars and studies co...

BACKGROUND School-based smoking prevention programs have been shown to increase knowledge of the negative effects of smoking and prevent tobacco smoking. The majority of evidence on effectiveness comes from Western countries. This study investigated the impact of school-based smoking prevention programs on adolescents' smoking knowledge, attitude, intentions and behaviors (KAIB) in Aceh, Indone...

From the beginning of the Islamic era, Muslim societies have experienced periods of renewal (tajdid). Since the eighteenth century, Muslim societies across the world have been subject to a prolonged and increasingly deeply felt process of renewal. This has been expressed in different ways in different contexts. Amongst political elites with immediate concerns to answer the challenges of the Wes...