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With the unfortunate increase of terrorist attacks and the attempts to tarnish the real image of Islam, irresponsible Islamic legal decisions (Fatwas) are used to mislead some Muslims and Non-Muslims to make incorrect conclusions. The widespread of communication technologies opens a huge challenge of E-Fatawa management. In this study, we present a novel application layer protocol for electronic Fatwas...
Halal certification has proven to be one of the most effective ways to identify the Halal status of certain products or services that helps Muslim select foods that are permissible in Islam. The increasing global Muslim population leads to the demand for halal food, products and services. With that, the supply of halal certificates needs to be sped up to meet the increasing global demand. Coping strategies...
Globalization and competitions are the main two challenges facing firms who are trying to sustain their success or even to stay in the market. Therefore, investments in technology, process and people become necessary for organizations to ensure having desired share in the marketplace. Large firms set up advanced and complex websites and hi-tech technology to create, maintain and share knowledge internally...
This research studies why and how users search for Islamic and Quranic information on the Web. It is to understand the information needs and search behaviour of online users seeking for this particular type of information. Thirty one interviews were given to various groups of online users regarding their reasons for searching on the Web and their search processes when acquiring Islamic, particularly...
Malaysian Sign Language is the native language for the deaf people in Malaysia. However, there is still a lack of web resources available to the public to facilitate the learning of the language. Although it is estimated that 56 percent of the deaf people in Malaysian are Muslims, sign language resources that address the words and concepts that are specific to Muslims are severely lacking. This paper...
Cognitive decline is the hallmark of aging. There have been continuous efforts on designing Assistive Technology for Cognition (ATC) for elderly people with these deficits. However, current technology application does not address the problems of elderly holistically. Most of the applications are designed to support elderly people with physical, emotional and social; overlooking the spiritual aspects...
This paper aims to provide a detailed account of the research and development efforts put in the design and development of a complete and comprehensive online cloud Qur'an portal. This portal will make all the reading and resource sections accessible to the audience whether they are using laptops, PCs, mobile, tablet, or personal digital assistants. In its completed form, the portal will cover almost...
Magazines and newspapers written in Jawi, an Arabic script used to write Malay until the late 50's, provided an active arena for discussions. In order to understand what happened in this era, we started to provide these in digital form. However, it is difficult to understand the documents contained in this digital archive without knowing their context. Particularly, as Jawi was used mainly by scholars...
Information Technology (IT) is influencing the organizations to change their operations and business process. The development of IT, especially in education, influences all organizations to adopt electronic learning (e-Learning). E-learning is becoming more popular day by day and organizations tend to emphasize on its benefits. Almost all organizations have been transformed from traditional learning...
This paper presents a novel approach for the classification of the religious scriptures, the Hadith (sayings of Prophet Muhammad (plural Ahadith)). Muhadith is a distributed, Cloud based expert system that uses the Hadith science to classify Ahadith among 24 types from seven broad categories. Classification of the Hadith is a complex and sensitive task, and can only be performed by an expert of the...
Social network one of the most used communication media between people. Nowadays, many researches on the effect of use social network in teaching and learning, some concentrate on Islamic impacts on students. This study, focus on the effects of social network on serving, and publishing Islam. In this study, the main purposes included studies in which field students benefit from social network, making...
Human development does not focus on external aspects of life With regards to the nature of human beings, internal development is the vital contributor in the development of human resource Various methods of developing the spiritual potential have been done to ensure quality human resource Religions teach human beings to manage one's strength. Therefore, the role of religions cannot be marginalized...
Islam and IT seems apart at the first glance. In essence, they share common points. In this paper, the religion Islam is regarded as an umbrella discipline to enlarge the scope of and improve IT governance. In doing so, the study highlights similarities and differences between Islam and COBIT in terms of format and content. By highlighting the similarities of Islam with COBIT, it is impressing to...
This paper proposes a Multiple-Agent system to construct an ontology of the English translations of the meanings of Noble Quran. None of the current agent based systems have solved the problem of ontology learning from text documents. The Noble Quran has an unconventional style of discourse containing recurring themes and a plethora of versatile figures of speech making it an inimitable and unique...
This paper examines the extent to which Islamic principles and practices (in this respect, as found mainly in the Prophet Muhammad's traditions) reinforce the notion of information security as a measure to protect information assets. This paper is historical and doctrinal in nature, attempting to discover the Islamic formulation that corresponds to the theories and practices of information security...
Islam and science are the two most powerful forces in the lives of more than one billion Muslims now living on planet earth. Islam is the foundation of their spiritual life; it is the spring which nourishes the spirit, a moral code that guides actions and a repository of rites and rituals that regulate individual and social life. The `Five Pillars' of Islam are the foundation of Muslim life: Faith...
Hajj (pilgrimage) is the fifth pillar of Islam that must be carried out at least once in their lifetime by every able-bodied Muslim. It is the largest annual convention of Faith in the world that requires traveling to Mecca. Hajj is performed based on predetermined dates, times, and places. It is a demonstration of the solidarity of the Muslim people, and their submission to Allah the Exalted (GOD)...
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