The objective of this article is to show that it is justified to assert that the existence of God is plausible, considering the fact that thinking itself is an immediate outcome (effect) of a thinker (cause). This idea may seem evident, but it is in fact challenged by certain claims of cognitive philosophers who aver that our knowledge of necessity and causation is, i...

English language teaching (ELT) in Iran has experienced a turbulent history reflecting an often dynamic context and changing attitudes toward English, yet framed within a discourse of tolerance rather than one of embrace, as this study is going to show. The discourse was much brighter before the Islamic Revolution and this study reveals that there were much fewer adverse policies toward the spr...

political thought of muslim in the middle of abolition of the ottoman caliphate, as a symbol of islamic world, followed with two reactions. a group, under rashid rida as thinker of the group, was thinking of caliphate to its real origin. the other group, under ali abdel raziq, was come to being with his prominent book entitled “islam and foundations of governance”, thinking that caliphate is hi...

This paper investigates the ways in which terrorism is linked to education and poverty using data newly culled from Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) documentary sources. The paper presents a statistical analysis of the determinants of participation in terrorist activities by members of the Hamas and PIJ between the late 1980s and May 2002. The resulting evidence suggests that both high...

A fund manager has to abide by a set of business and financial parameters before selecting and including a particular stock in an Islamic fund portfolio. There are various Islamic screening methods followed by stock indices and banks, namely Dow Jones Islamic Market Index (DJIMI), FTSE Global Islamic Index Series, S&P 500, MSCI (Morgan Stanley Capital International) and Accounting and Auditing ...

Purpose This study argues that in order to address the problems associated with modern market economy at their core, such as persistent poverty, growing inequality and environmental degradation, it is imperative re-assess well-being moral philosophy underpinning economic thinking. The author attempts offer a preliminary way forward reference Islamic intellectual tradition. Design/methodology/ap...