In “Forced Marriage and Sex Trafficking under the Guise of Nikah Siri in Indonesia” (Studia Islamika 31, no. 2 (2024)), Zezen Zaenal Mutaqin (Faculty of Islamic Studies, Universitas Islam Internasional Indonesia) and Yayan Sopyan (Faculty of Sharia and Law, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University of Jakarta, Indonesia), using their “field research, interviews, and observation in the… CONTINUE READING
In “Early origins of AI in Islamic and Arab thinking traditions” (Diplo, December 9, 2024), Jovan Kurbalija argues that “Artificial intelligence (AI), though a modern innovation, has deep conceptual roots that trace back to ancient intellectual traditions, including the Islamic Golden Age, which spanned from the 8th to the 14th century.”
In “A case study of Muslims’ perspectives of expanded terminal sedation:addressing the elephant in the room” (BMC Medical Ethics 25 (2024)), Elham H. Othman (Faculty of Nursing, Applied Science Private University, Amman, Jordan) and Mohammad R. AlOsta (School of Nursing, Zarqa University, Zarqa, Jordan) “describe a case of a Muslim palliative care nurse who cared… CONTINUE READING
In “Shifting landscape of customer preferences: analyzing internet Islamic banking satisfaction during COVID-19” (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11 (2024)), Jassim Aladwani (Box Hill College of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait) evaluates how service quality impacts customer satisfaction with Islamic internet banking during COVID-19, finding that reliability, responsiveness, and complaint handling hinder satisfaction, while efficiency and… CONTINUE READING
In “Studying early Islam in the third millennium: a bibliometric analysis” Halil İbrahim Yılmaz (Sakarya University, Turkiye) and others explore how Islamic legal principles intersect with environmental ethics, emphasizing Sharia-based frameworks for sustainable development and ecological stewardship.
In “Dynamics of Implementing Islamic Law Through the Islamic Sharia Enforcement Committee in South Sulawesi” (Letters in High Energy Physics 2024), Muhammadong Muhammadong and others, conducting field studies in a locality in Indonesia, find that “the level of satisfaction among the community in implementing Islamic law [. . .] has a positive impact on [the people’s]… CONTINUE READING
In “Exploring the predictive power of artificial neural networks in linking global Islamic indices with a local Islamic index” (Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 11 (2024)), Zakaria Boulanouar (Department of Economics and Finance, College of Business and Economics, & National Water and Energy Center, The United Arab Emirates University, Al Ain, UAE) and others “analyze… CONTINUE READING
In “Artifical Intelligence in Islamic Finance” (Medium, October 20, 2024), Ameer Hamza argues that “AI applications have transformed finance and the way in which financial institutions operate. The same is true when applied to Islamic finance-a set of principles based on Sharia law and ethics.”
In “Can generative AI master Islamic inheritance law?” (LSE Blog, October 11, 2024), Zubair Abbasi “outlines his comparative study of the accuracy of ChatGPT-4, Co-Pilot, and Gemini, to assess the accuracy of generative AI in interpreting Islamic inheritance law.” In “From data to action: Leveraging insights to make more informed collection decisions” (OCLC Blog, July… CONTINUE READING
