One of the greatest exponents of Arabic prose of all time, Al-Jahiz is also know for his scholarship, the breadth of his interests, and his ability to express his ideas and arguments with vigour and humour. The Book of Misers is his comical masterpiece, and one of the earliest works of fiction from the Islamic world. Generosity is regarded by Arab society as one of the principle virtues, and this satire on miserliness has a clear social purpose.
This paper investigates the predictive power of global geopolitical risks (GPR) index on daily returns and price volatility of Bitcoin over the period July 18, 2010–May 31, 2018. Considering Bayesian Graphical Structural Vector Autoregressive (BSGVAR) technique, we find that GPR has a predictive power on both returns and volatility of Bitcoin. The results of the Ordinary Least Squares (OLS) estimations show that price volatility and returns of Bitcoin are positively and negatively related to the GPR, respectively.
Currently, the education sector is rapidly evolving and changing the mediums by which we learn. It is alarming and equally interesting to see the key models of technology and businesses that are transforming the way educational content is developed, taught, and consumed. Numerous innovative teaching tools and creative mediums are available today to enhance the mode of educating and delivering knowledge. There is a need to re-evaluate the way education and learning are viewed, especially compared to traditional teaching methods.
This book explores the Islamic tradition and Muslim contexts for educational administration and leadership.
The main article in this book draws the distinction between deliberative engagements with concepts of sex, gender, and sexuality. This distinction functions heuristically to show that the commonplace binaries through which sex, gender, and sexuality are generally debated – whether the binary is East/West, religious/nonreligious,
The main article in this book begins by citing some disturbing environmental facts of our contemporary times including the Green House Gas emissions, climate change, and deforestation. The author points to the vacuum, which exists about environmental concrete policies that there is no legally binding international agreement for a reduction of dangerous anthropogenic atmospheric emissions.
The main article of this book provides an approach to theorize the relationship between knowledge and values in the Islamic vision and using it as a fundamental reference for building the school curricula in general.