Purpose – Islamic finance and socially responsible investing (SRI) have been two of the most rapidly growing areas of finance over the last two decades. During this period, they have each grown at rates that far exceed that of the financial markets as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to find similarities and commonalities of both markets and identifies how both could benefit from each othe...

Islamic medicine, Arabic medicine, Arab-Islamic medicine, or Greco-Arab and Islamic medicine refers to medicine developed in the Golden Age of the Arab-Islamic civilization, which extended from Spain in the west to Central Asia and India in the east. In temporal terms it covered a period of roughly nine centuries, from the middle of the seventh to the end of the fifteenth century. Medicine was ...

the importance of inscriptions as the primary sources refer to historical events is undeniable. introducing the shāhugat inscriptions were found near tābaktal village of chāhān district around nikshahr is the purpose of present paper. they refer to the events that occurred in south iran around the end of the 7 th and the beginning of the 8 th centuries ah., a colorful and turbulent period of it...

Islamic banks underlie the fundamental principles of the Shari’ah, which encompass all business activities, financial contracts, and transactions. The Shari’ah Supervisory Board (SSB) monitors and certifies compliancy and is unique to the governance structure of Islamic banks compared to their Western counterparts. This study addresses the question of how the compositional characteristics of th...

This paper presents a translation of the Arkalochori Axe and the Malia Altar Stone inscriptions, which are some of the longest known Cretan Hieroglyph inscriptions together with the Phaistos Disk. The translations are checked using two consistency criteria. First, a synoptic transliteration is used that aligns symbols from several scripts that are evolutionarily related. When the phonetic value...

Oracle-bone inscriptions are pioneer mature characters in China, named as china archaic “record-base”. Because oracle-bone was not smoothness, and went through thousands years, its damage is very grievous, many spots covered up pristine inscriptions. In the paper we analyse the characteristic of rubbings and try wavelet transform for removing noise of different defective rubbings of oracle-bone...