This study explains the history, current problems, and future possibilities of Islamic insurance (takaful) in Bangladesh. To articulate these issues, the researcher has adopted the qualitative method, and data has been collected through secondary sources i.e. articles, books, and online resources. The study reveals that Islamic insurance in Bangladesh is regulated by the Insurance Act 2010 whic...

A large literature contends that legal systems that adapt efficiently to meet the contracting needs of the economy foster financial sector development. The paper discusses the adaptability features of Islamic law related to commercial transactions (Islamic commercial law) in light of contemporary financial system. After discussing the nature and way the common and civil law traditions can evolv...

medicine, and their use may be independent ofParacelsian theory or cosmology. This continuity is further obscured by Beier's belief in such sixteenthand seventeenth-century worthies as Lanfrance ofMilan (fi.1293) and Albertus Magnus (d. 1280, here called A. Magnus), and in such Englishmen as Forestus (Dutch) and the Germans Jacob Rueffand Scultetus. Her reliance only on English versions of thei...

As a country with the greatest Muslim number, Indonesia has a long history on its introduction to Islam. Unfortunately, there has not been effective and interactive ways of learning Islamic history in Indonesia, beside text-books-based stories, which may not be interesting for students. Therefore, Indonesian Muslim students may not value Islamic history, so that they cannot learn from and imple...

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...