CAN VACCINATIONS HELP TO RESOLVE CONFLICTS AND NURTURE DIPLOMACY? LATER THIS MONTH, Indonesia, the world’s most populous Islamic country, will host U.S. President Obama, a visit that could establish important scientifi c ties between the United States and Indonesia and implement a potentially powerful piece of vaccine diplomacy. The oral polio vaccine is a substantive example of how vaccination...

Each economy functions within a particular social framework, defined by its moral philosophy and legal system. What makes an economy Islamic is Sharīah, the moral/legal discourses of the classical fuqahā’, which defined the economy of classical Islam, shaped its micro and macro institutions, and modulated its actual performance. This economy, which was virtually effaced during the age of Europe...

The international religious data in the World Christian Database (WCD), and its print predecessor, the World Christian Encyclopedia (WCE) have been used frequently in academic studies and the popular press. Scholars have raised questions about the WCD’s estimates categories, and potential bias, but the data have not yet been systematically assessed. We test the reliability of the WCD by compari...

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 ...

a School of Industrial Technology, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, 11800 Penang, Malaysia b Department of Food Science and Nutrition, Faculty of Applied Sciences, UCSI University, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia c Faculty of Pharmacy, International Islamic University, Kuantan Campus, 25200 Kuantan, Pahang D/M, Malaysia d School of Distance Education, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Minden, Penang 11...

Sintering and Properties of Dense Manganese-Doped Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics Prepared Using Sol-Gel Derived Nanopowders I. Sopyan a , N. A. Nawawi a , Q. H. Shah b , S. Ramesh c , C. Y. Tan d & M. Hamdi c a Department of Manufacturing and Materials Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, International Islamic University Malaysia, Gombak, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia b Department of Mechanical Enginee...

discussions of islamic international law, especially privateinternational law, i.e., nationality, domicile, legal situationof foreigners, and contradiction of laws are not presentedin islamic jurisprudence under the same titles, and thismay lead to the supposition that islamic jurisprudence hasremain silent concerning such problems.the present essay intends to prove incorrectness of thatsupposi...