Islamic microfinance as an alternative to conventional financing practices : The need to address the poverty in Pakistan by Abdul Razak, Dzuljastri, Abbas, Kausar

“…Hence, this paper explores the feasibility of Islamic microfinance as an alternative means to help the poor in line with the Shariah principles where the use of riba (usury) is prohibited due to unfairness and injustice. …”
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Religion and politics in America : the rise of Christian Evangelists and their impact by Zakaullah, Muhammad Arif

“…The Muslim world has to learn to appreciate that in Western societies the bottom line is the public opinion and not the wishes of the President/Prime Minister and his cabinet." …”
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A study of packet scheduling with mobile cellular channel impairments by Mohd. Ramli, Huda Adibah, Sandrasegaran, Kumbesan, Abdullah, Khaizuran

“…Therefore, intelligent design of packet scheduling for the LTE-A to provide Quality of Service (QoS) comparable to fixed line services becomes crucial. However, packet scheduling over the LTE-A system faces a number of challenges. …”
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Bank Rakyat Malaysia: vision remains while mission is revisited by Khaliq, Ahmad, Kazmi, Azhar

“…The consistency had to be maintained as it was in line with the founding fathers’ idea of serving its members. …”
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Corporate financing dynamics: Malaysia empirical evidence by Haron, Razali, Ibrahim, Khairunisah, Mat Nor, Fauzias, Ibrahim , Izani

“…There are evidences of target capital structure and firms do adjust to be at their target from time to time with a considerably rapid speed of adjustment, in line with dynamic trade-off theory. Firms in Malaysia are found to be under-adjust, being below the required adjustment to be at the target within a year. …”
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Integrating zakat into Indonesian fiscal sytem in the light of siyasah shar‘Iyyah by Nashr, Akbar, Kayadibi, Saim

“…The research will determine whether the integration of zakat into current fiscal system is in line with the Siyasah Shar‘iyyah or not. Keywords: Zakat; Fiscal; Integration; SWOT analysis; Siyasah shar‘iyyah, Contemporary fiqh. …”
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Low income housing allocation system in Malaysia: managing housing need for the poor by Shuid, Syafiee

“…Since early 1990s, Malaysia experienced rapid urbanization in line with continuous economic growth. Despite various housing programmes implemented by the Malaysian government together with private sector to provide housing for the low income people but the number of squatter settlements continue to grow. …”
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Investigating firm and country specifics in pursuing optimality. Shariah compliant securities in Malaysia by Haron, Razali

“…The size of Malaysia’s ICM is expected to expand at the average rate of 10.6% per annum to reach RM 2.9 trillion by 2020. In line with its future expansion, Shariah compliant securities are and will continue to be one of the important elements in ICM. …”
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Target capital structure and speed of adjustment: Panel data evidence on Malaysia Shariah compliant securities by Haron, Razali, Ibrahim, Khairunisah

“…The size of Malaysia’s ICM is expected to expand at the average rate of 10.6% per annum to reach RM 2.9 trillion by 2020. In line with its future expansion, Shariah compliant securities are and will continue to be one of the important elements in ICM. …”
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Does trade among ASEAN members promote efficiency? sectoral evidence from the gravity model by Mohd Amin, Ruzita, Hamid, Zarinah, Md Saad, Norma

“…Thus, this study finds that only „good‟, i.e., efficient intra-regional trade is taking place within ASEAN, which is in line with the objective of establishing the ASEAN Economic Community. …”
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Cash waqaf and Islamic microfinance - untapped economic opportunities by Md Saad, Norma, Anuar, Azizah

“…Given these shortcomings, the paper explores the possibility of using cash waqaf as a new source of fund for Islamic microfinance and proposes new concept and application of Islamic microfinance so that it is truly in line with the Islamic spirit of microfinance. It is hoped that with this new concept and application of Islamic microfinance, the use of microfinance is genuinely to cater for the needs of the poor and the needy and as a means to combat poverty as well as generating socio-economic growth of the Muslim Ummah.…”
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Formation of desired values: the role of parents by Yusof, Selamah, Mohd Amin, Ruzita, Haneef, Mohamed Aslam, Md. Noon, Hazizan

“…Different from previous works on values, the measurement of both these values is based on al-Ghazali's works in line with Islamic ethics. In addition, this study also determines the "oughtness" of both categories of values. …”
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Analysing factors influencing stated preference of the administrative and academic employees towards telecommuting in IIUM Campus, Gombak by Ismail, Farah Diyanah, Kadar Hamsa, Abdul Azeez, Mohamed, Mohd Zin

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Customer satisfaction and switching behavior in Saudi Islamic banks: an exploratory study by Abduh, Muhamad, Altwijry, Othman Ibrahim

“…The finding of this study indicated that, internet banking, shariah compliance, confidentiality, bank’s type, accuracy of bank statement, new technology adoption, and front-line friendliness dimensions fall under the quadrant of “keep up the good work” with high level of performance and importance. …”
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Parents’ attitudes towards inclusion of sexuality education in Malaysian schools by Makol-Abdul, Pute Rahimah, Nurullah, Abu Sadat, Imam, Syed Sohail, Abd Rahman, Saodah

“…The majority of them (73%) supported the inclusion of various sexual health topics in school curriculum provided the contents were in line with religious teachings. The study has generated important empirical findings regarding local community’s response to school-based sexuality education. …”
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Maslahah’s role as an instrument for revival of ijtihad by Laluddin, Hayatullah

“…Its dynamism is due its general principles through which solutions for any conceivable situation could be sought. This is in line with the signification of the Quranic verse “we have not neglected in the record a thing...” …”
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Internal audit and risk management practices in Malaysian higher education institutions by Wan Mustapha, Wan Musnida, Zainal Abidin , Nor Hafizah, Zakaria, Zamzulaila

“…Findings show that all public HEIs do have an internal audit unit which is in line with the requirement of Treasury Circular No. 2/2004. …”
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مفهوم نظام حوكمة شركات المساهمة: النظرة القانونية مقارنة بالشريعة الإسلامية = Corporate Governance in Shareholding Companies: Comparing Legal Perspective and Position of Shari’ah... by Hasan, Aznan, Al Timimi, Harith Amir Hasan

“…The study found that even with the absence of the term “company governance” in Islamic Law, the concept of corporate governance is in line with the Shari’ah and that their scholars have clearly referred to it in their literature. …”
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Biotransformation of ethyl p-methoxycinnamate and cytotoxicity activity of its biotransformed product by Omar, Muhammad Nor, Mohd Hasali, Nor Hazwani, Yarmo, Mohd Ambar

“…The biological anticancer activity of EPMC and its biotransformed product (EPHC) was established by cytotoxicity activity on the human breast cancer (MCF-7) cell line using MTT assay. Ethyl p-hydroxycinnamate (EPHC) was most cytotoxic against MCF-7 at 1000 μg/mL where percentage of cell viability was 9.87 %, while IC50 was 340 μg/mL. …”
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Monoclonal antibody production: media optimization for enhancement the cell viability of hybridoma cell by Mel, Maizirwan, Mat Saad, Maizura, Hashim, Yumi Zuhanis Has-Yun, Mohamed Salleh, Moharnad Ramlan

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