Bangladesh is a moderate Islamic country. There are six full pledged Islamic banks providing services to wide range of customers. This study is designed to examine the impact of demographic disparities on the bank selection criteria applied by diversified customers of domestic Islamic banks in Bangladesh. We have run regression analysis after controlling for four demographic groupings such as G...

There are a limited number of studies on attitudes towards mental illness and mentally ill from Islamic countries even though Islam is the second largest of the religious beliefs in the world. An interesting element in Islamic teaching is the idea that mental illness as well as other ailments might be an effect of the will of Allah. This could imply that persons suffering from mental disorders ...

The Muslim world is in crisis – politically, socially and economically Islam need of a reformation. Drawing on insights from the Protestant Reformation, this article argues that two major reasons for success Reformation lay fact dissident voices such as Martin Luther were protected developments like printing press increased literacy thereby empowering ordinary people to read Bible their own wit...

This paper discusses the homegrown endeavors in most populated Muslim world to modernize Islamic education therein. It focuses on how modernization of comes out efforts by so-called traditional scholars particular reforming education. As a locus analysis, it deals compara­tively with two largest populations, one South Asia and another Southeast Asia. The former is represented India, latter Indo...

This paper presents a case series with preliminary data regarding the neurophysiological effects of specific prayer practices associated with the Islamic religion. Such practices, like other prayer practices, are likely associated with several coordinated cognitive activities and a complex pattern of brain physiology. However, there may also be changes specific to the goals of Islamic prayer wh...

This paper aims to examine e-business from Islamic perspectives. Among topics to be addressed in this paper, are e-business concepts, the legality of e-business from an Islamic point of view, prospects and challenges of Islamic e-business in a Malaysia context. This study introduces an Islamic e-business concept in addition to some interesting issues that can be found in this paper. In Islam, e...

Under this title I organized, on March 26 and 29, 2010, a workshop that discussed the place of Islamic law in the national codes of states with predominantly Muslim populations in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. What place do their codes assign to Islamic law? As none of the states concerned—with the exception of Turkey—declares itself to be a secular state, they can all claim that the law ...

Since the emergence of the civilization, poverty has been a big challenge and in present time, it is a worldwide spread problem. Poverty is an obnoxious situation when people are deprived from access to many things but most common of these are longevity (long and healthy life) health (adequate levels of health), nutrition (food), shelter (adequate housing), clothing, education, literacy, knowle...