Browsing by Subject "Islam"
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A Note on Meccan Women in the Fifteenth Century
( Brill Academic Publishers , 2016 , Article)The history of women in Arabia is a relatively new and unexplored area of research and the place of women in Mecca (Makkah), Islam's holiest city, is particularly shrouded in darkness. From the fifteenth century, however, ... -
American Muslim Adolescent Daughters’ Perception of Maternal Relationships and the Influence on their Health Behaviors: A Conceptual Model
( PNG Publications , 2021 , Article)Objectives: The goal of this qualitative research study was to better understand of how the mother daughter relationship shaped by different ecologies in a Muslim community in the United States (US) influences their ... -
Anomie Écrasant, Religiopolitical Fundamentalism and American Evangelicalism: The Advent of Rightest Americanism and Islamophobia
( Pluto Journals , 2018 , Article)This article explains how intensifying levels of Durkheim’s “anomie”—that is, the weakening of social bonds, social alienation and normlessness—lead to the development of a fundamentalist offshoot of American Evangelicalism ... -
Balanced leadership from an Islamic perspective: Between philosophy and practice
( De Gruyter , 2023 , Book chapter)Research about balanced leadership has received increasing attention among academics and practitioners in an attempt to guide the practice of effective leadership. However, the concept of balanced leadership from an Islamic ... -
Corporate Social Responsibility of Islamic Financial Institutions: The Case of GCC Countries
( Euro Journals , 2014 , Article)During the last three decades, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has grown significantly both in practice and academic fronts (Hassan and Latiff, 2009; Hassan and Harahap, 2010). However, according to Naylor (1999) CSR ... -
Courting Islam: The Evolution of Perceptions of Islam within the British and American governments from the European Colonial period to the War on Terror
( Qatar University Press , 2021 , Article)Purpose: This article explores the changing attitudes to, and perceptions of Islam that developed over a period in which substantive engagements between Anglo-American strategic interests brought them more and more into ... -
Dementia caregiving in the Middle East and North Africa: A scoping review
( SAGE , 2021 , Article)Care for persons with dementia in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is undertaken predominantly by family members, domestic workers, and private nurses within the home. Domestic caregivers possess different understandings ... -
The discursive representation of islam and muslims in the british tabloid press
( Intellect Publishers of Original Thinking , 2021 , Article)This article employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) on a sample from British tabloid newspapers to unearth the representation of Islam and Muslims. It attempts to unpack the evolving discursive language and its impact ... -
Dissecting the claims of legitimization for the ritual of female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM)
( Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Journals , 2014 , Article)This work analyses the various arguments put forward by the supporters of female genital mutilation (FGM) under Islamic law to determine whether this practice has its roots in Islam, whether it is a customary or cultural ... -
Domains of privacy and hospitality in Arab Gulf homes
( Emerald Publishing , 2011 , Article)Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to report findings of an ethnographic study of homes in the Arab Gulf country of Qatar. The authors' analysis and contribution focuses on resolving the tension between privacy and ... -
Experiencing Loss: A Muslim Widow's Bereavement Narrative
( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Article)In this article, we explore how Islam, minority status and refugee experiences intersect in shaping meaning-making processes following bereavement. We do this through a phenomenological analysis of a biographical account ... -
Health-related maternal practices of immigrant Muslim mothers in the United State
( Taylor & Francis , 2019 , Article)This study examines maternal practices of immigrant Muslim mothers in the United States to understand how they share their health values with their American Muslim adolescent daughters. The maternal practices were studied ... -
International entrepreneurial SMEs in the muslim world: The role of religion in the GCC countries
( Elsevier Ltd. , 2022 , Article)Recent studies examining the internationalisation of SMEs in emerging economies have observed that religion affects international market entry, which suggests that specific cultural aspects, such as religion, have not ... -
Islam & the issue of gender
( International Association of Computer Science and Information Technology, 2009 , 2009 , Conference Proceedings)Much confusion has developed on the issue of Islam and gender, Islam as a religion is seen to give preference to one gender over the other. This has been particularly realized in dealing with issues which are of concern ... -
Islam and International Relations (IR): why is there no Islamic IR theory?
( Taylor and Francis Group , 2022 , Article)International Relations (IR) as an academic discipline is relatively new and almost entirely dominated by Western sources of knowledge. Its biased nature undermines its capacity to understand, explain and predict events ... -
Islam and Leisure
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2017 , Book chapter)[No abstract available] -
Islam and Mental Disorders of the Older Adults: Religious Text, Belief System and Caregiving Practices.
( Springer , 2020 , Article)This paper illustrates the impact of Islamic religious texts on dementia care in the Middle East. It examines how old age and older adults mental disorders are framed in the Quran and Hadith, and how these texts are ...