This critical review develops an effective multimedia instructional design model and a multimedia courseware called Al-Furqan to evaluate and validate the new model and to teach the Holy-Quran to students’ in primary schools. The critical review scope involves the teaching of the Holy-Quran to Libyan students’ who are in the 5th grade at primary schools...Read More

The purpose of this study was to examine and explore the meanings, structures and essence of the lived experience of Muslim women via an Islamic theoretical (Kalam) framework. The study’s goal was to describe a detailed and comprehensive description of how Muslim women use Islam to promote gender equality and improve treatment within their daily...Read More

The research strategy of the present paper is within a relatively new tradition in labor market research, initiated by the recent article by Besamusca, Tijdens, Keune and Steinmetz (2015), which does not exclude anymore the “religious factor” and what these authors call “gender ideology”. Our analysis of the “gender ideology” of Islamism and gender values...Read More

Islamic women’s activism may appear a contradiction in terms to many Western audiences accustomed to presentations of Islam as counterproductive to the promotion of women’s empowerment and the situation of women more generally. Yet in the Arab world (and beyond) many different groups and individuals – as scholars, as charity and welfare providers, and as...Read More