Media representations of Muslims in Britain have often disappointed both faith practitioners and scholars. Imputed failings include distorting beliefs or practices, essentialising the faith, and amplifying voices that are not representative of Islam. This last factor hinges on questions of authority: what journalists and Muslims recognise as authority can differ in important ways. Drawing on...Read More

Landscape Design in the Middle East is a little-documented subject1. Until relatively recently conventional academic research had been conducted largely from an ‘Orientalist’ perspective2. It is only today that discussion of Islam and architecture are starting to acknowledge the true diversity and complexities of Islamic societies. DownloadRead More

The historic background of algorithmic processing with regard to etymology and methodology is translated into terms of mathematical logic and Computer Science. A formal logic structure is introduced by exemplary questions posed to Fiqh-chapters to define a logic query language. As a foundation, a generic algorithm for deciding Fiqhrulings is designed to enable and further...Read More

This paper examines the rationale for my teaching philosophy from an Islamic perspective. The theoretical issues in this paper are the purpose of education, functions of the pen, purpose of man, integration of the curriculum, instructor‟s leadership in the class, instructor‟s Islamic knowledge and motivation. In this paper, as an educator who is Muslim, I...Read More