Malaysia and many other countries have been experiencing huge floods. Massive flood struck (December 2014) the east coast of Peninsular Malaysia caused by heavy rain, overflowing rivers and unusual high tide from South China Sea. The worst floods in Malaysia for decades left more than thousands of homes destroyed and forced over 200,000 people to...
The term ‘governance’ comes from the Greek verb κυβερνάω [kubernáo], meaning ‘to steer’. Every institution, be it public, private, or third sector, needs governance to function. There are formalized forms of governance, and the most formalized one is the ‘government’. NGOs also need good governance for effective functioning, growth and sustainability. The principles of good...
There is an opinion among Western scholars that the institution of waqf could no longer perform its economic role in the present times. Instead of being a vital institution as it truly played in the pre-modern era, waqf nowadays seems to be an impediment to the development in Muslim countries. However, there are proven cases...
