175 Further Reading Bulliet, Richward W. (1979) Conversion to Islam in the Medieval Period, An Essay in Quantitative History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Hodgson, Marshall G. (1974) The Venture of Islam, Conscience and History in a World Civilization. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Lapidus, Ira M. (1988) A History of Islamic Societies. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University P...

A single server waiting line system with Poisson arrivals and Inverse Gaussian service times has been analyzed. The same model has been analyzed by using Mukherjee-Islam (1983) model as the service time model. Inverse Gaussian model has been used in queuing theory but the Mukherjee-Islam model which is basically a failure model has been tested first time as the service time model.

This article bridges Sri Lankan studies and the academic debate on the relation between contemporary Islam and politics. It constitutes a case study of the Muslim community in Akkaraipattu on Sri Lanka’s war-ridden east coast. Over two decades of ethnically colored conflict have made Muslim identity of paramount importance, but the meanings attached to that identity vary substantively. Politici...

In a large number of products liability lawsuits, sellers assert that plaintiffs’ claims should be rejected because their products fall under some federal regulatory regime, and that the regulatory statute takes precedence over or “preempts” state tort law. This paper is an attempt to set out a positive theory of the doctrine on preemption of products liability claims. The federal case law is l...

This paper attempts to demonstrate that it is not only the universal principles of Islam that ground our everyday actions, but also the practical and immediate issues which we confront. Although Islam provides a universal set of principles to make life meaningful, I shall argue that these principles are vernacularized and localized in specific narratives. By offering seven diverse zones of Isla...

There is a trend of recruiting faith leaders at mosques to overcome religious barriers to organ donation, and to increase donor registration among Muslims. Commentators have suggested that Muslims are not given enough information about organ donation in religious sermons or lectures delivered at mosques. Corrective actions have been recommended, such as funding campaigns to promote organ donati...

The aim of this paper is to reveal how misconceptions—or using the concept of Arkoun, “the crisis of meanings”—about the role and position of Islam in Europe is impacting on the discourse on sport, Islam, and immigration. France is selected as a case study for this paper as it is in this country where the debate on religion in general and Islam in particular seem to be more contentious in relat...

The allegation that, 'Being Muslim means that you cannot be British' is often made. In view of this, we conducted a small survey (n=75) utilising purposive sampling on Muslims residing in the United Kingdom. Participants were recruited in a King's College London Islamic Society event in November 2014 in Guy's Hospital, London. 75/75 (100%) of the participants recruited responded. 69/75 (94%) of...

Corrigendum Corrigendum to ‘‘Application of the optimal homotopy asymptotic method to squeezing flow’’ [Comput. Math. Appl. 59 (2010) 3858–3866] M. Idrees a, S. Islam b,∗, Sirajul Haq a, Siraj-ul-Islam c a Faculty of Engineering Sciences, GIK Institute, Topi, NWFP, Pakistan b Department of Mathematics, CIIT, H-8/1, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan c NWFP University of Engineering and Technology, Pesha...

The Afghan resistance sees its struggle more in terms of a "holy war" (jihad) than as a war of national liberation. In a country in which reference to the "nation" is avery recent phenomenon, where the State is perceived as exterior to society and where allegiance belongs to the local community, Islam remains the sole point of reference for all Afghans. It is only in the southern Pushtun tribal...