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Webinar: Bicara Santai "Norma Baharu Ramadan & Raya 2020"

May 21, 2020, 12:00pm Hits:151

Webinar: Kesan PKP Terhadap Kontrak Pekerjaan dan Perbankan di Malaysia

May 14, 2020, 11:00am Hits:191

Webinar: The Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Islamic Banking

April 30, 2020, 10:00am Hits:342

Webinar "Contagious Disease: Islamic and Malaysian Perspectives"

April 23, 2020, 10:00am Hits:441

Webinar: Pandemik & Perintah Kawalan Dalam Sejarah Islam

April 16, 2020, 10:00am Hits:554

Online Book Discussion "Maqasid al-Shariah: Antara Nas dan Maslahah, Satu Pendekatan Sistem"

April 9, 2020, 10:00am Hits:601

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Certain individuals stand out in every age as formative thinkers and agents of change. Such foundational figures help shape the structure of a civilisation. Knowledge of their lives and deeds may offer food for thought and insight for our own time. This IAIS monthly series provides simple portraits of great Islamic scholars and authorities who were architects of civilisation in their day.

Mohammad Hashim Kamali - avatar Mohammad Hashim Kamali

May 27, 2020, 11:40am Hits:104

Islamic history shows how to deal with health threats

The Quran does not mention any plague (ta'un) by name, but makes references to destructions of bygone people, adding also that calamities occur only within God's all-embracing knowledge (57:22; 64:11). Ta'un is the subject, howeve...

Muhamad Sayuti Mansor - avatar Muhamad Sayuti Mansor

May 25, 2020, 10:49pm Hits:22

A religious bureaucrat with contemporary underpinnings

When Datuk Dr Zulkifli Mohamad Al-Bakri stepped down as the Mufti of the Federal Territories of Malaysia to pursue his service as the Minister in the Prime Minister's Department (Religious Affairs), speculation arose as to who wou...

May 23, 2020, 12:04pm Hits:96

How religion can aid public health messaging during a pandemic

Over the last month there has been much discussion about religion, as the world celebrated major religious festivals – Pessach, Easter, Vaisakhi, Navratri, Buddha Purnima and Ramadan – under lockdown. Public health policy makers w...

Ahmad Badri Abdullah - avatar Ahmad Badri Abdullah

May 12, 2020, 12:45pm Hits:174

Beware of unintended consequences when searching for solution

We are living in a highly connected world with a complex socio-economic models and networks that often generate issues for which linear problem solution method do not offer adequate resolutions. The current pandemic crisis has pr...

Shahino Mah - avatar Shahino Mah

May 6, 2020, 11:59am Hits:261

The potential to increase self-control, intelligence

The human body is considered to begin fasting when it has completed the digestion and absorption of a meal, which takes place three to five hours after a person stops taking food or water. Some might think that fasting is unneces...

April 27, 2020, 5:19pm Hits:322

How Ibn Sina's work became a guiding light for scientists facing contagions

As the coronavirus strangleholds the world, we look back in time, into Ibn Sina's scientific discoveries. With expertise in many fields, from medicine and astronomy to mathematics and theology, Ibn Sina was a Muslim polymath ...

The Star - avatar The Star

April 21, 2020, 12:34pm Hits:466

Malaysia needs to enact a Covid-19 law to help the economy to recover

Since March 18, Malaysians have been #StayingAtHome or #DudukDiRumah under the movement control order (MCO) declared by the government to help stop the Covid-19 pandemic. The speed at which this disease sp...

Ashleigh Stewart - avatar Ashleigh Stewart

April 20, 2020, 12:40pm Hits:468

The all-female robotics team in Afghanistan who made a cheap ventilator out of Toyota parts

The Afghan Girls Robotics Team made headlines when they were denied entry to the US in 2017 – now they're supporting the pandemic fight. Five girls in Afghanistan, aged between 14 and 17, have joined the fight against the coronav...

April 17, 2020, 5:16pm Hits:490

Post-Virus Reopening Is More About Ethics than Science

There is no safe way to emerge from our collective shelter-in-place orders and restart the economy before an effective Covid-19 vaccine arrives — but there are smart, science-based ways to do it. The question can’t be left e...

Talal Abu-Ghazaleh - avatar Talal Abu-Ghazaleh

April 6, 2020, 8:58am Hits:567

The 2020 global crisis and a third world war

For some time now, I have been sounding the alarm of an impending major economic crisis that may hit globally by the year 2020. Contrary to reports by some analysts and experts, I have good reasons to predict that the next crisis ...