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Women Employment with special reference to Islamic Banks of Bangladesh
Full text linkAfter a short discipline of socio-economic and religious factors any contribution to women employment in the context of Bangladesh, this paper has raised two questions 1. Whether women are needed to be employed in Islamic Banks in Bangladesh? 2.Whether women should deal with male clients or not? Considering the hadihs and Quranic view this paper countered the argument on this issue. Recommending policy measures, it suggested to recruit more women in Islamic Banks in Banglades
The Ethics of Disagreement in Islam
No full textThe most dangerous problem affecting the Muslim Ummah now is the problem of disagreement and discord. Taha Jabir observed that this disease has become all-pervasive and affects every area, the appaling influence of this disease has penetrated into ideas and beliefs, morality and behavior and ways of speaking and interacting. Day by day it is enveloping people‟s souls. Our new generation are getting the impression that all the Islamic teachings, commands, and prohibitions at the disposal of the Ummah are there only to spur people on to discord
Doctor Faustus: An Islamic Anatomy
Full text linkConflict between good and evil is eternal. The clash ensued from the very inception of human race. In other words, the tug of war initiated immediately after the creation of Adam, and Eve and the first incident of the conflict happened to take place between Satan and Adam in Paradise. The brawl resumed after they were sent to the earth and that has been continuing forever up to the dooms day. Those who stand by the good and fight against evils are known as the servant of God. These people will be able to achieve salvation in the life hereafter. And the people who are the forces of evil or fight against the good are known as the followers of Satan. Satan corrupts their souls and they become ineligible to attain salvation. The corrupting influence of Satan extends from the individual to the society, which ultimately results in havoc. That is why God will punish the followers of Satan. English literature is said largely influenced by Christianity. And shares some ethos of Islam. In many of the renowned literary pieces of English literature, the clash between the good and the evil has at the center presenting human mind in the phenomenon of the earth as battleground. Dr. Faustus by Christopher Marlowe is a distinguished literary piece of this type that projects the downfall of the protagonist Faustus who oscillates between the two elements. This article will be viewing Faustus‘ activities, the nature of his sins, the consequences thereof - whether he deserves salvation in the light of Islamic creed. The article excavates his endeavor and failure to break the vicious circle of the satanic forces
Morality and Values through EFL/ESL Teaching among Learners
Full text linkInnumerable books, articles and research papers have been created on the techniques and methodologies of teaching English language as a second or foreign language. The aim of all these techniques is to make the learners competent in communication. Following these methods teachers will be able to teach and the learners will be able to learn a language which they will use for various purposes, namely social dealings, business transaction and international communication. Thus this language would become a part of their lives. On the other hand if morality accompanies these social dealings, business transaction and international communication a man is bound to be an honest man for all those who might come in contact with him. This morality has to be inserted in the mind of the language learner. There are various Islamic teachings which provide this morality. This article deals with two prominent English language teaching methodologies/approaches and tries to show how morality based Islamic teachings can be juxtaposed with the activities of language teaching methodologies in order to inculcate morality in the minds of the language learners
Election, Political Instability and Fragile Democracy in Bangladesh
Full text linkBeing one of the most populous countries in the world, Bangladesh has been facing numerous challenges such as poverty, rampant corruption, decay in living conditions, slow economic growth, bad governance, insecurity and of course political conflicts and instability, which are supposed to be met in a democratic polity. After the fall of Ershad’s military regime in 1990, democracy has been reinstated in the country. But the “winnertakes-all” political culture and mentality of the political elites has resulted in the boycott of parliament by the opposition parties followed by street agitations and general strikes on a regular basis. Thus many scholars argue that democracy in Bangladesh is not working as per the hope and aspiration of the people of Bangladesh. This paper examines the question of whether the Proportional Representation (PR) system can help in institutionalising and strengthening democratic practice in order to achieve political stability and sustained economic growth in Bangladesh. Our findings reveal that there is a need for political reforms, and particularly change from the existing “Winner-Takes-All (WTA)” political system to the PR system in Bangladesh. This is because PR system paves the way for greater participation i.e. seats in the parliament are allocated among parties in proportion to votes they receive. Our data also shows that the PR system will not only grant legitimacy to the party with majority seats in the parliament to rule, but also build stakes for opposition parties to meaningfully participate in parliament by means of committee assignments in proportion to their representation i.e. the percentages of electoral votes and parliamentary seats. This paper further highlightes that the PR political system, which some scholars name it as a system with ‘justice as fairness principle”, will also help to build a national consensus to resolve the issues of long-standing political contentious in Bangladesh such as appropriate electoral system, institutional framework of the electoral process, political neutrality of the Election Commission (EC), organise open, free and fair election, etc. These are some major political issues which are unresolved in the country for a long time and the PR system may bring a positive change in this respect by transforming traditional behavior of political elites thus making a difference in the quality of life of the citizenry in Bangladesh. The findings of this study also suggest that in order to adopt the PR system in a new democracy like Bangladesh there are also numerous challenges such as: commodification of election, commercialisation of nomination, the issue of geographical representation, instability of the government, etc
কুরআনের বাণী, বাণীবিন্যাস ও প্রকাশভঙ্গি (সুরা বাকারা, আয়াত: ২৪৩ – ২৮৬)
No full textকুরআনের বাণী, বাণীবিন্যাস ও প্রকাশভঙ্গি, সুরা বাকারা, আয়াত: ২৪৩-২৮
Muslim Political Elite and the Revival of the Left in Indonesian Politics, 1996-2001
Full text linkThis study analyses the responses of Muslim political elite to the revival of Left politics and discourse in post-Soeharto Indonesian politics. Its focus is on the confrontation of the Muslim political elite towards the issue of the reemergence of the Left during the period 1996-2001. Such theoretical approaches on elite as the ones propounded by Mosca, Pareto and C. Wright Mills are examined as a framework for analysis. The explanatory power of the analysis is improved further by identifying the factors that were conducive to Muslim political elite responses such as politics of stigmatisation of the Left by the New Order establishment, Muslim historical traumatic experience with the Communist revolts in the past and the nature of Indonesian political elite. The data for this study were mainly derived from the usual major sources of non-survey data such as press reports, standard biographical submissions for Indonesian Muslim political elite and government sources of aggregate data. The results of semi-structured interviews with several Leftist political activists, elite of Muslim political parties and mass organisations, authors and political observers are widely used in this study. The archival research and written works of Muslim political elite are also used in this study. The study reveals that the alleged reemergence of the Left is indicated by the birth of the People\u27s Democratic Party (partai Rakyat Demokratik, PRD), the ex-President Abdurrahman Wahid\u27s efforts to revoke MPRS Decree No. XXVI 1966 in 200 1 and the overflow of Marxist, Leninist and Socialist books as well as the writings by former PIG political prisoners from 1996 to 2001
International Seminar on ‘Islam in Myanmar’
Full text linkA day-long international Seminar on Islam in Myanmar on the theme “Democratization in Myanmar: Opportunities and Challenges for Its Muslim Community” was held Conference Hall, IAIS Malaysia on April 29, 2012. International Institute of Advanced Islamic Studies (IAIS) Malaysia and Myanmar Muslim Intellectual Forum (MMIF) jointly organized the seminar in collaboration with International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) East Asia, Institute for the Study of the Ummah and Global Understanding (ISUGU) and Regional Islamic Da\u27wah Council of Southeast Asia and the Pacific (RISEAP). Emeritus Professor Datuk Dr. Osman Bakar, Program Chairman and Deputy CEO, IAIS Malaysia and Dr Nay Aung Kyaw @ Mohammed Ali Hassan, Vice President, MMIF broke the ice with their welcoming addresses. Then Founding Chairman and CEO, IAIS Malaysia Professor Dr Hashim Kamali gave his opening speech while officiating address was delivered by Tun Abdullah Haji Ahmad Badawi, Patron of IAIS Malaysia and Former Prime Minister of Malaysia
Book Reviews
Full text linkপাশ্চাত্যের মুসলিম ও ইসলামের ভবিষ্যৎ
কন্যা সন্তানের উত্তরাধিকার: একটি সার্বিক পর্যালোচনা- ২
Islam and Gender Bangladesh Perspective
Inviting to Islam: Ethics of Engagement
Five Pillars of Prosperity: Essential of Faith-Based Wealth Building
Muhammad the Messenger of Alla
The Islamic Theory of International Relations: New Directions for Islamic Methodology and Thought
No full textThis book provides a remarkable reformist approach to Islam in general and to the Islamic theory of international relations in particular. The author begins by attributing the tragic condition of the modern Islamic world to its stagnation, brought about by the predominance of taqlid. Only with a resolution of the “time-place issue” (p. 4), a phrase that recurs throughout the book in relation to the necessity of distinguishing between what is permanent and what is a mere dated application in another time and place, does AbuSulayman believe that “the badly needed original dynamic and realistic policies” (p. 4) can be found