Impact of Zakat in Alleviating Rural Poverty: A Case Study of MACCA in Bangladesh
The Masjid Council for Community Advancement (MACCA) provided
Book Chapters
Revitalization of the Traditional Islamic Economic Institutions (Waqf and Zakat) in the Twenty-first Century: Resuscitation of the Antique Economic System or Novel Sustainable System?
The rapid growth of Islamic finance after 2000 has led to a new question of its practice. Critics of the current situation of Islamic finance contend that the newly developed Islamic financial products are not compatible with the ideal of Islamic economics, because these products are approved at patchwork screenings by a Sharia advisory board. After the middle of the first decade of the twenty-first century, in order to overcome this situation, several new ideas were proposed by those who aspire to the ideal of Islamic economics.
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In 2016, the Santa Tracker team used the Web Share API on Android. This API was a perfect fit for mobile. In previous years, the team disabled share buttons on mobile because space is at a premium, and they couldn't justify having several share targets.
The Education of African-American Architects: Re-Thinking du Bois’ Principles, "About Us, For Us, and Near Us"
A confluence of events led to the creation of the author's seminar on gender and race in contemporary architecture, prompted by his participation in a campuswide workshop on teaching diversity at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Houston Mosques: Space, Place and Religious Meaning
In thinking about space/power/knowledge intersections, we offer a rich and descriptive account of the urban mosque, which has far too long been neglected. Our account reveals descriptive language as a basis for aesthetic syncretism and the creation of an American
American Mosque Architecture
The scholarship on religious space in America from the 1940s through the 1960s exists at the intersection of several kinds of literature, including history, religious studies, and material culture (Price, 2013). Furthermore, because of the increased mobility of people and beliefs and an increasingly worldwide diaspora, the scholarship asks whether cultural and political boundaries—both material and figurative—have been manufactured or dissolved as research is carried out.
Cairo’s urban parks: space, place, and meaning
Over the last two decades or more, there has been an increasing attempt to understand the relationship between the modalities of everyday life through the complex cosmopolitan influence of Cairo’s urban history. As Ross King has suggested in Emancipating Space (1996), “There can be no emancipation without unmasking all the linkages of spatial meaning and the kinships between space, knowledge and power . . .