Islamic Studies and Arabic Language

West Bank Central Governorates Statistical Yearbook. Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics (Ramallah, Palestine) Vol. (Jul. 2014), pp.64-64, 1 p.

Subjects: Palestine; Statistics; Mosques

By: Aqil, Marwan; Mishra, Ravi. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology. Vol. 11, no. 4 (Jul. 2014), 10 p.

Subjects: Automatic translation; English language

By: al-Tamimi, Abd al-Karim; Jaradat, Manar; al-Jarrah, Nuha…[et al.]. The International Arab Journal of Information Technology. Vol. 11, no. 4 (Jul. 2014), 9 p.

Subjects: Readability (Literary style); Textbooks; Word processing; Computational linguistics

By: Nur Allah, Mustafa W.. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 26 (Jul. 2014), pp.53-54, 2 p.

Subjects: Banks; Islamic Banks

By: al-Barazi, Man. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 26 (Jul. 2014), pp.31-33, 3 p.

Subjects: Capital; Costs; Inflation (Finance); Investments; Islamic jurisprudence

Donor award: Central Bank of Bahrain

Subjects: Bahrain; Annual reports; Auditing; Islam; Stockholders

By: Sakib, M. Sadman; Islam, Md. Rezaul; Hamodrakas, Stavros J.…[et al.]. Advances in Bioinformatics. No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-17, 17 p.

Question: An Islamic bank intends to offer financing at preferential profit rates to its staff to help them purchase vehicles. However, the preferential rate is intended to be applicable only during the employment tenor. Can the Islamic bank achieve this objective in a Shariah compliant manner ?.

Question: Would it be permissible to pay Zakat to the institution who are to spend it 100 % on feeding, clothing and living essentials of the pupils ?.

Subjects: Alms tax; Alms tax bestowments; Islamic jurisprudence; Money; Payments

Question: Does a woman have to pay Zakat on her gold even if her and her husband do not have enough cash over the Nisab ? i.e. does she have to sell some gold and pay separately ?.

Subjects: Alms tax; Gold; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: Is Zakat due on an amount of money I only came to possess 11 days before my Zakat anniversary, and which is going to be used to buy a house (and therefore not “surplus” wealth) ?.

Subjects: Alms tax; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: I understand that the Zakah is 2.5 % of assets but if one has more than that to pay and is able and willing, can they do that ? or does it have to be exactly 2.5 %, no less or more ?.

Subjects: Payments

Question: A man passes away leaving a wife and three children. The process of sorting out his estate takes 2-3 years in which time the family does not know exactly how much has been left behind and therefore they don’t know ....

Subjects: Alms tax; Inheritance; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: Many conventional banks have products called ‘Offset’ mortgages. These are mortgages whereby :If I have a mortgage of 50 K and savings of 50 K the savings offsets the interest on the remaining mortgage value. So in the above case ....

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Subprime mortgage; Usury

Question: Many conventional banks have products called ‘Offset’ Mortgages. These are mortgages whereby : If I have a mortgage of 50 K and savings of 50 K the savings offsets the interest on the remaining mortgage value. So in the above ....

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Subprime mortgage; Usury

Question: A customer of an Islamic bank wants to construct a school building for which he has requested the Islamic bank for finance. The land whereupon the building will be constructed is not owned by the customer but taken by him ....

Question: Is it permissible for an organisation or charity that collects and distributes Zakat funds to use Zakat income to cover costs that are incurred directly as a result of the Zakat distribution process, e.g. salaries of caseworkers or fieldworkers, IT ....

Subjects: Alms tax; Charities; Islamic jurisprudence

By: Islam, Md. Rabiul; Zhang, Daoqiang. Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience. No. 2014 (2014), pp.1-11, 11 p.

Question: I would like to find out what I should do in a situation where in I owe money to a few organisations but I don’t know how much as I owe this money was due years ago, do I take a rough calculation and subtract it from the Nisab ?.

Subjects: Alms tax; Debts; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: I am a teacher in a secondary and one thing that is offered to all teachers is the teacher pension scheme. Such a scheme or any pension scheme deemed as Halal, would it be better to opt-out of such schemes ....

Subjects: Employers; Islamic jurisprudence; Pensions

Question: I am a teacher in a secondary and one thing that is offered to all teachers is the teacher pension scheme. Such a scheme or any pension scheme deemed as Halal, would it be better to opt-out of such schemes ....

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Pensions; Wages

Question: An Islamic bank had issued a letter of credit, for a customer applied for the same. Since the customer could not manage the availability of the fund in its account when the documents under LC were negotiated and payment became ....

Question: The government backed start up loans company is offering a shariah compliant loan to customers wanting a Halal alternative. The Shariah compliant loan is being arranged by the financing Sharia enterprise and from their website it appears they are using the Mudaraba system. Is this acceptable according to shariah ?.

Subjects: Financing; Islamic jurisprudence; Loans; Speculation

Question: Does Zakah need to be paid on maternity pay that may need returning if one can’t go back to work and hence has been kept aside ?.

Subjects: Alms tax; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: In view of repeated requests from various customers, an Islamic bank has sought Shariah guidance in order to assess whether it can introduce an overdraft facility to its valued customers for certain required periods against an agreed fee.Under such a ....

By: Prousis, Theophilus C.. Chronos. No. 29 (Jun. 2014), pp.185-210, 26 p.

Subjects: Syria; History; Revolutions

By: Asma, Amarni. al-Athar. No. 20 (Jun. 2014), pp.7-16, 10 p.

Subjects: Algeria; Arab world; Fiction

By: Rashid, Raissi. al-Athar. No. 20 (Jun. 2014), pp.1-6, 6 p.

Subjects: Algeria

By: Badanjaki, Tahir. Zarqa Journal for Research and Studies in Humanities. Vol. 14, no. 1 (Jun. 2014), pp.303-309, 7 p.

Subjects: Literature; Woman

By: Khalil, Huda Hadi. Journal of the College of Education for Women. Vol. 25, no. 2 (2014), pp.525-535, 11 p.

Subjects: Semantics; Discourse analysis

By: Tisgam, Khalidah Hamid. Journal of the College of Education for Women. Vol. 25, no. 2 (2014), pp.511-524, 14 p.

Subjects: Poetry

By: al-Asmar, Ali; al-Kaabnah, Awwad; al-Jadir, Khalaf…[et al.]. Journal of the Royal Medical Services. Vol. 21, no. 2 (Jun. 2014), pp.60-63, 4 p.

Subjects: Neoplasms; Surgery

By: Hadi, Shahla Abd al-Kazim. Journal of University of Babylon for Humanities. Vol. 22, no. 3 (2014), pp.566-579, 14 p.

Subjects: Education; Iraq; Learning; Second language learning; English language

By: Mahmud, Ziyad Anwar. College of Basic Education Researches Journal. Vol. 13, no. 2 ( 2014), pp.1063-1080, 18 p.

Subjects: The holy koran

By: al-Saati, Nashwan Mustafa. College of Basic Education Researches Journal. Vol. 13, no. 2 ( 2014), pp.1051-1062, 12 p.

Subjects: Semantics; Discourse analysis

By: al-Samir, Muhammad Ahmad Abd al-Sattar. Adab al-Basrah. No. 69 (2014), pp.25-56, 32 p.

Subjects: Consonants; Education; Learning; Oman; English language

By: al-Musawi, Zahra Nasir Talib; al-Salman, Isra Mahmud. Adab al-Basrah. No. 69 (2014), pp.57-88, 32 p.

Subjects: Basra; Iraq; Muslim woman; Attitudes

By: Bala, Aminu Alhaji. Dirasat Ifriqiyya Journal d'études africaines. No. 51 (2014), pp.45-61, 17 p.

Subjects: International relations; Nigeria; Foreign policy; Peaceful coexistence

By: Sadu, Ibrahim Shuaiubu. Dirasat Ifriqiyya Journal d'études africaines. No. 51 (2014), pp.21-43, 23 p.

Subjects: Nigeria; The holy koran; Hermeneutics

By: Karkarhu, Musa Ahmad. Dirasat Ifriqiyya Journal d'études africaines. No. 51 (2014), pp.7-20, 14 p.

Subjects: Katsina; Nigeria; Mosques

By: Abadi, Daliyah. Makalid. No. 6 (Jun. 2014), pp.1-4, 4 p.

Subjects: Contextual analysis; Linguistics; Semantics; Pragmatics

By: Khan, Muhammad Fahim. Journal of Islamic Business and Management. Vol. 4, no. 1 (Jun. 2014), pp.17-54, 38 p.

Subjects: Consumer behaviour; Economic aspects; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; Rationing

By: Rafi Allah, Shaykh; Khan, Atiq al-Zafar. Journal of Islamic Business and Management. Vol. 4, no. 1 (Jun. 2014), pp.73-98, 26 p.

Subjects: Financing; Investments; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; Securities

By: Lallmahmud, Munir al-Din. Journal of Islamic Business and Management. Vol. 4, no. 1 (Jun. 2014), pp.99-124, 26 p.

Subjects: Banks; Financing; Islam; Economics; Islamic economics

By: Ayyub, Muhammad Sadiq. Journal of Islamic Business and Management. Vol. 4, no. 1 (Jun. 2014), pp.191-196, 6 p.

Subjects: Islam; Financing; Interdependence; Islamic jurisprudence; Macroeconomics

By: Habib, Faruq; Ahmad, Abu Umar Faruq. Journal of Islamic Business and Management. Vol. 4, no. 1 (Jun. 2014), pp.125-142, 18 p.

Subjects: Financing; Islam; Financial transactions; Foundations of Islamic jurisprudence; Islamic jurisprudence

By: Rishaan, Abd al-Husayn K.; Ihsan, H. A.; al-Abbadi, Hani K.. Adab al-Kufa. Vol. 1, no. 19 (2014), pp.32-51, 20 p.

Subjects: Semantics; Arabic language; Pragmatics

By: Ali, Sukaynah Abd al-Karim; Yasin, Ayman Rashid. IUG Journal of Humanities Research. Vol. 22, no. 2 (Jun. 2014), pp.1-23, 23 p.

Subjects: Grammar; Jordan; Arabic language; Particles

By: Moutakil, Samira. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature. Vol. 6, no. 1 (Jun. 2014), pp.23-42, 20 p.

Subjects: Comparative linguistics; Languages; Linguistics

By: Chettouh, Ghaniyah. Jordan Journal of Modern Languages and Literature. Vol. 6, no. 1 (Jun. 2014), pp.1-21, 21 p.

Subjects: Lebanon