The Culture of Technological Creativity in the Islamic World during the First Islamic Golden Age
Lim Ren Chong
The Islamic world in the period between 132AH/750AD – 655AH/1258AD is marked by technological advancements stemming from the ability of its community to preserve…
Language and the Malay Muslim Identity: An Insight into Brunei
Salbrina Sharbawi and Zayani Zainal Abidin
Sitting at a government clinic, a conversation was overheard between a woman and a little girl. They looked characteristically Malay, and because of the hijab on the woman, it…
Digital Health Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in the Islamic World: Embracing the Evolution in Healthcare
Muhammad Salman Khan and Hinna Nayab
Health and Healthcare have been highly impacted by the global technological revolution resulting in more intelligent systems, optimised hospital workflows, disease prediction and…
An Ecological Crisis by the Coronavirus: A Call for a More Inclusive Science?
Nurul Izzati Hj Mohd Jamil
The hypothesis that the ongoing coronavirus needs a more inclusive science, revisits the idea of whether the emergence of the coronavirus disproves the hugely established Darwinian theory…
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Muslim State in a World of Nation-State
Nassef Managbilang Adiong
Muslim views on the polity represent the paradigmatic understandings of how Muslims relate citizenry, authority, territoriality, and sovereignty to the overarching influence of the Western nation-state system. For instance, the meaning of citizenry in the…
‘Darkness to Light’ in Islamic Corporate Governance
Iznan Tarip
There are emerging works on the dark side of organisation, looking at the dark out-side (e.g. political instability, multi-national corrupt syndicates), and in-side (e.g. workplace violence, nepotism). The ‘darkness’ not only involves generalised corrupting mechanisms…
Wise Agents & Organisational Moral Learning
Iznan Tarip
The processes of strategic change, undertaken from time to time by organisations so as to maintain its functional relevance and effectiveness, are often conflict-ridden. This is in large part due to the nature of the…
Manoeuvring Power Dynamics: The Brunei Constitution 1959
Majdey Zawawi
The Brunei Report of 1904 mentions of a letter that Sultan Hashim tried to address to the Ottoman Sultan Hamid II expressing Brunei’s willingness to surrender the Sultanate to Turkey or more precisely, to the Ottoman Caliphate. The letter was intercepted by British Agents…
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Sultan Haji Hassanal Bolkiah: Fulfilling Maqasid al-Shari’ah
Rozan Yunos
Fulfilling the requirements of the Maqasid al-Shari’ah is a duty not all leaders have been able to carry out. Throughout history, there are many examples of leaders and nations who have failed to provide for their own people. Thus, for His Majesty to achieve this, it is indeed no small feat. For fulfilling the requirements of the Maqasid al-Shari’ah, His Majesty is an exemplary Muslim leader in this modern time. This book provides examples of how those Maqasids were fulfilled.
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