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Showing 1 to 20 of 67 for “"Islamic Studies"”.
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Sir William Jones (1746-1794) and Islamic studies.
… and how those perceptions changed in more recent studies of his work. The major part of the dissertation deals with the work of Jones in translating legal texts, with particular attention paid to his last work on Mohamedan laws of intestacy, as part of the plan to administer native laws. The work …
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Islamic Studies Teachers' Perspectives of Applying Technology in Saudi Arabia Elementary Schools
… of this qualitative study is to investigate Islamic Studies teachers' perceptions of using technology in their classrooms in elementary schools in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. The collection of survey data and interview outcomes is part of this study. First, an electronic survey was distributed to …
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THE PERCEPTIONS OF ISLAMIC STUDIES TEACHERS ABOUT INCORPORATING CULTURAL DIVERSITY IN THE CURRICULUM
… study examined the perceptions of Saudi Arabian Islamic Studies teachers regarding their perceptions of diversity within the classroom. Eight different educators were interviewed with the purpose of discovering whether or not they value diversity, whether they had opportunities to use diversity …
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Introducing computer supported co-operative learning to the curriculum of Islamic studies and Arabic language in Arabic Language Institute for non-Arabic speakers : teachers' perceptions, students' responses and administrators' views
… was administered to 148 teachers of Arabic and Islamic Studies from four universities, to investigate their positive and negative attitudes to computers, feelings about computers' usefulness, and intimidation about using computers. At Umm Al-Qura University, views on co-operative learning were …
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PREPAREDNESS OF MUSLIM ESL STUDENTS TO MEET THE COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS-BASED ASSESSMENT: A QUALITATIVE STUDY IN AN ISLAMIC PRIVATE SCHOOL
… four Muslim parents whose ESL children attend an Islamic private school in the American Southwest. The study investigates the preparedness of these Muslim ESL students to meet the Common Core State Standards-based assessments. The focus of the study is the conceptual processes included in the …
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Needs analysis and course design for Dacwa students: Teaching Arabic for specific purposes (TASP)
… is not totally devoid of textbooks and research studies concerning Arabic for Specific Purposes (ASP). However, the greater part of these attempts lack a theoretical framework and, seemingly, guidance. Such attempts therefore fail to achieve their goals; hence, the researcher formed the opinion …
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Muslim common religious practices at the Cape : identification and analysis
… to date been attempted. Almost all approaches in Islamic Studies have concentrated an Official Islam and mostly from theological perspectives. In those works references to particular common beliefs and practices have been made and sometimes suggestively. Comparatively, however, much more, and …
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ISLAMIC TEACHERS' PERCEPTIONS OF IMPROVING CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS IN SAUDI ARABIAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS
… sequential mixed-method study is to examine Islamic teachers thoughts on improving critical thinking skills in elementary schools in the Southwestern province of Saudi Arabia. This study involves the collection of quantitative data and an explanation of the quantitative results with …
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"Contesting Islam: ""Homegrown Wahhabism,"" Education and Muslim Identity in Northern Ghana, 1920--2005"
"The study argues that Wahhabism, the official version of Islam in Saudi Arabia, was and in many ways remains, a homegrown religious phenomenon that built primarily on preexisting tensions in the northern Ghanaian Muslim society and that Middle Eastern and North African contact through pilgrimage, …
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SAUDI FACULTY MEMBERS’ PERCEPTIONS OF CAEP STANDARDS
… standard items contributes to the improvement of Islamic teachers’ preparation programs. The results concerning the views of participants about the clinical partnerships and practice standard revealed that Saudi faculty members at Al-Jouf University were also familiar with Clinical Partnerships …
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Sixteenth Century Morisco Devotional Manuscripts in their Mediterranean Contexts
… and far more focused on 'normative' Islamic beliefs and practices. Also, these works reveal religious interests, shared not only by the Moriscos, but also other confessional communities in the wider early modern Mediterranean. I argue that the Moriscos should be understood as complex …
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Islamic School: Challenges and Potentials in the 21st Century a Case Study of Al-Amal, a Private Bilingual School in Kuwait
… at the same time, focuses extensively on an Islamic studies curriculum. The main incentive for selecting this focus was the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Since that date, the mass media have paid much attention to Islam and to Muslim society, …
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Theology of Moosa’s Significance in the Quran From a Unique Perspective of a Muslim Student in the United States
<p>As a Muslim studying Islam in the United States of America, I want my paper to focus on the holy book of Muslims, the Quran. Specifically, my focus will be to discuss the significance of Moosa or Moses in the Quran, with a theological perspective. I will answer the following question regarding …
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The Empirical Development of an Instructional Product on the Religion of Islam from a Missiological Perspective
… of Islam. Topics include the Judaistic and Islamic heritage, Jesus and Muhammad, Islamic fundamentalism, Islamic marriage and family, the Muslim worldview, and practical Christian channels of missionary outreach to Muslims.</p> <p>Method. The methodology of this instructional product …
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Muslim schools and the teaching of citizenship
… to be given by a Muslim teacher who reflects Islamic values. In Muslim schools pupils are subject to religious influence in terms of prosocial behaviours and positive attitudes towards others, whatever their ethnicity or faith. These schools appear to be rather successful in building their …
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An informational approach to document and intelligent retrieval systems : problems and alternatives for representing subjects in the Qur'anic text
… Scientists in the Muslim World, who feel that Islamic literature deserved and required an Islamic classification scheme. Conceptually Muslim Information Scientists have attempted to establish an analytical subject bibliography which could help to develop a particular classification scheme. This …
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Conceptualizing Islamic Acculturation in Pre-Colonial Punjab
… is to conceptualize the manner in which Islamic acculturation took place in the Punjab. To date, there has been little scholarly attention on Muslims in this region. Scholarship on the religious history of the region has focused exclusively on the Sikh communities. This study will not …
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Agreeing to Submit: Authority Constructions in Modern Sunni Islam
<p>In the modern age, Sunni communities are often claimed to be in a moment of crisis. However, despite outward arguments about this crisis, Sunni communities are more accurately described as within a state of transformation. By analyzing constructions of authority from Sayyid Qutb, the clerical …
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Illustrating Islam: Comics as Dakwah and the Negotiation of Muslim Identity in Indonesia
… how print and digital comics communicate Islamic values and address issues of religious intolerance and violence in Indonesia, particularly in the context of the country’s social and political transformations following the fall of the Suharto government in 1998. The subsequent …
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The Question of Ijtihad
The question of whether the door of ijtihad is open, closed, or ever did close, has been around for centuries. The answer to this question is crucial for our times. The research will present a chronological overview of the historical development of the concept of ijtihad, how it developed, became …
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