Moniruzzaman Md

University of Sharjah | US

Mohamed Shukri (1940-2020) left a permanent mark on the trajectory of Islamic thought in contemporary Sri Lanka. This paper explores his contribution to Islamic thought in the local context. Following the thematic analysis method, this paper finds that Shukri attempted to develop a comprehensive critique of the philosophical foundations of modern s...

In postwar Sri Lanka waves of anti-Muslim riots and violence has become a common trend. This paper critically analyses how the century old Sinhala Buddhist majoritarian ideology contributes to the postwar anti-Muslim violence in Sri Lanka. This paper argues that postwar Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence is not just a matter of political gamblin...

This paper reviews key findings of existing scholarship about the question of identity, political thinking, and inter-community relationships of the Muslim minority in Sri Lanka. By doing so, this review aims to explore the broader dynamics of the socio-political and religious life of the community. As such, the findings show that the increasing re...

This paper critically analyses how Aḥmad al-Raysūnī employs the maqāṣid approach in reforming the concept of ‘Islamic State’ of Political Islam. Al-Raysūnī argues that the concept of Islamic State has many conceptual lapses which threaten the foundations of the Islamic world view. He further suggests that those conceptual issues can be overcome by...

Analytical descriptive and discursive

Purpose This paper aims to examine the validity of a state’s prohibition on virtual assets in the context of its global commitment to battle against money laundering. Design/methodology/approach This was empirical legal research exploring how a general lack of expertise to apply a risk-based approach in anti-money laundering strategies might have...

This chapter evaluates 50 years of party politics and politics induced violence and its patterns in Bangladesh. It argues that over the past five decades violence has developed into a party political culture, and it has been institutionalized across the society and political landscape in such a way that violence is now regarded as normal and politi...

Muhammad Asad was a born Jew and converted to Islam in 1926. later he devoted to Islamic studies and authored a number of influential books including an English Commentary of the Quran - the Message of the Quran, English Translation of the Bukhari, and The Road to Mecca. Muhammad Asad detected the inner hollowness of the Western civilization and ar...

Women political participation is understood to be a part of civic rights but their participation is hindered by various factors. Numerous researchers have claimed that Islam as a religion, Muslim social culture and tradition inhibit women from political participation in Muslim societies. However, there are a number of Muslim majority countries wher...

Sovereignty is one of the most contested central concepts in politics, international relations and international law. indeed in international relations sovereignty is the only factor that separates states from each other and gives individual identity. in international law sovereignty offers states individual personality independent from others. How...

The present study aimed at exploring the determinants of perceived quality services of Dhaka City Corporation (DCC) provided towards the slum dwellers. For the purpose of the study, data were collected from the respondents with a structured questionnaire survey using stratified random sampling. Collected data were analysed using partial least squar...

Human mass migration from place to place is well recorded in history. The ancient patterns of mass migrations could have their origins in natural forces (Homo-erectus from Africa to Europe) or divine order (Israelites from the Pharaonic Egypt or early Muslims from Makkah). Simultaneously, modern recorded history suggests that human mass migrations...

Political clientelism and political corruption reinforce each other. While clientelism either in traditional or modern form remains appreciated in party politics, corruption is considered anathema and anti-systemic. Yet, clientalism and corruption feature prominently in party politics of developing democracies. This largely stems from a weak legal...

The 14th general election in Malaysia held on May 9, 2018 is an historic event that altered the political landscape of the nation. For the first time over sixty years this election has caused to change the government from Barisan Nasional (national front) coalition to another coalition named Pakatan Harapan (Coalition of Hope), formed in 2015. This...

The research assesses media freedom or media sustainability and politics in 37 Muslim majority countries. Media sustainability is measured using the International Researches and Exchange Board (IREX) score whereas political regime is measured using the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Index of Democracy. The analysis indicates that three countries fal...

The present study aims at investigating the moderating effect of administrative role in the relationships between the service quality dimensions, logistic support and perceived quality service of local government (Dhaka City Corporation) in the context of Bangladesh. For the purpose of the study, data were collected from 222 slum dwellers of Dhaka...

Nigeria is a hotspot for numerous conflicts, especially in the postcolonial times. These intractable conflicts include ethnic, religious, political, sectarian, communal, Settlers-Natives and Pastoralist-Farmers dimensions. On this occasion, different scholarly arguments were advanced to know whether there is a generalizable cause for the menace. Mu...

Party politics in Malaysia has become tumultuous over the past two decades. As such national and regional level elections as well as by-elections have become equally sensitive for party politics. Of late by-elections have taken a special position as they are considered unseasonal barometer for testing popularity and legitimacy of the incumbent and...

Foreign aid is considered as a significant source of income for many developing countries. Countries that were facing current account deficit in the 1950s were encouraged to borrow from international financial institutions to boost their economic growth. However, such borrowing created a great obstruction to the economic growth of many developing c...

Political stability is desired by every state. But is it contingent upon regime types or party systems? Existing studies on political stability suggest that regimes such as authoritarianism, democracy, and dictatorship and their variants have variously influenced political stability. Some have proved to be friendly with political stability in certa...

Bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) has been an increasing trend over the past decades. Highly developed countries are getting into FTA with the emerging economies in order for maintaining competitive advantage. A particular area of such agreement is intellectual property rights (IPRs) in superior technology and research. The bone contention of th...

The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) are a noble initiative to deal with certain chronic socioeconomic problems of the backward societies. Targeted to achieve eight major goals by 2015, the initiative deserves critical assessment of its achievement and strategies as its time frame is approaching to an end. Based on data on the goals achievement...

The global financial crisis that unfolded since the end of 2006 has shaken the very foundation of the Western free-market economic system. Its fundamental regulatory principle of the separation of state and market is now seriously discredited. The objective of this article is to argue that the economic principles of Islam can provide a better alter...

This paper examines the determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) of the Islamic Republic of Iran based on those of Malaysia that have been successful in attracting FDI since the early 1980s. The model adopted was based on a previous study on FDI determinants in Malaysia. Results of multiple regression analysis to determine whether FDI determ...

The Muslim world hosts a wide diversity of minority groups in terms of ethnicity, religion, language and culture. The minority diversity in some countries is overwhelming compared to others. Such diversities have put the countries in difficult position for national unification in the nation-building process. This article examines the minority polic...

Malaysia held its 13th general election on May 5, 2013 which was a contest between two coalitions, the ruling Barisan Nasional (BN) and the opposition Pakatan Rakyat (PR). The latter's expectations for an outright win did not materialise. The election results have shown a rather status quo with minor losses and gains for the two coalitions. This st...

1 The contemporary economic rise of China is likely to affect the international politics and political economy in many ways. China's growth is multidimensional ranging from economic, military, education, scientific and technological. Economically powerful china will shift the epicenter of political power from the West to the east bringing a civiliz...

This chapter deals with foreign aid-a major tool of external influence on countries in Africa and Asia, including the Muslim majority countries (MMCs). The chapter, in three major sections, deals with the concepts and parameters of studying foreign aid and economic development, facts and issues related to foreign aid and debt servicing in the MMCs,...

Community development organisations employ a group approach, arguing that it strengthens the empowering capacity of local communities. Drawing on the experiences of two major NGOs in Bangladesh, this study argues that in community development greater attention is usually paid to the effects of ‘empowering’ inputs such as microcredit, while lesser i...

This article aims to make a survey of business and political environments for inward Foreign Direct Investment performance of the Muslim countries. It offers a cross-country analysis of the 57 Muslim majority countries" FDI performance during 1995-2006. The research finds that the business environment in the Muslim countries is not favourable for s...

This article analyses the causes, manifestation and consequences of political violence in Bangladesh. The analysis is based on two arguments: first, that there is a cyclical relationship between inter-party conflict, political violence, and inter-party enmity; and secondly, inter-party conflict and violence at the horizontal level leads to politica...

This study of three parliaments in Bangladesh during 1991–2006 argues that parliament has failed to become the centre of political and legislative activities. This is mainly because the ruling parties deliberately bypass parliament, while the opposition deserts it. The parliament has been dysfunctional for more than half of its tenure. For the shor...

Jihad (Islamic holy war) is a fundamental foreign policy concept in Islam. Following the 9/11 incident, a considerable number of scholarly works in the West have squarely equated jihad with terrorism. In recent Islamic scholarship as well, the usage of the concept either tends to be avoided or is increasingly being depoliticized. The popular unders...

This study analyses the group formation process followed by Brac and Proshika in Bangladesh. Based upon field observation and interviews, it is apparent that the process of Brac and Proshika's group formation suffers from internal contradiction in setting group objectives. The NGOs expect the groups to remain principally focused on social and polit...

PROSHIKA, the second largest NGO in Bangladesh, follows the ‘participatory development’ approach for the socioeconomic development and empowerment of poor women in Bangladesh. However, PROSHIKA is heavily criticized and opposed by some quarters, especially Islamic groups, for its alleged controversial activities. This paper examines PROSHIKA’s part...