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M. Habib Chirzin
This article describes the evolution of Indonesia’s voluntary sector and the role of nongovernmental and private voluntary organizations in the development of Indonesia’s civil society. The paper describes how NGOs and PVOs complement and supplement the role of government in the social and economic development of the society. It also discusses how these organizations manage their responsibility in challenging the government while often remaining financially dependent on the government for their existence. The paper also advances discussions about the organizational theory of voluntary organizations and their particular development in Indonesia.
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Syed Abdul Hamid al-Junaid and Syed Aziz Anwar
This article seeks to advance an Islamic perspective on Organization Development. Arguing that OD interventions not only seek to institute planned change within organizations, but also change individuals, cultures and societies, the authors suggest that OD interventions can become useful tools for bringing about comprehensive development in society. The authors advance an Islamic perspective on OD in the hope of transforming Muslim organizations and precipitate comprehensive development of Muslim societies.
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Jamal Badi and Mustapha Tajdin, Kuala Lumpur: International Islamic University Malaysia, 2004. 248 pages. Growing out of a course that the authors have taught jointly since 1996 at the International Islamic University Malaysia (“Creative Thinking and Problem Solving”), this book is designed for use as an undergraduate textbook on these issues from an Islamic viewpoint. Since Muslims generally deplore their own community’s lack of creativity and desperately need to reverse their technological and scientific dependence on other countries, the authors seek to present a realistic strategy to help them regain the innovative spirit that characterized classical Islamic civilization. Drawing on cognitive psychology and related disciplines in western academia, they begin with the assumption that creativity is a learned skill, rather than the personal endowment of an elite corps of humanity. The book then develops their second assumption: Islamic values and perspectives can be enriched through a dialogue with western social sciences. |
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Asma Afsaruddin, Leiden, The Netherlands: E. J. Brill, 2002. 322 pages. The question of the imamate or the caliphate, the designation of the Muslim community’s legitimate leader, is undoubtedly one of the most important in Islamic history. The first civil war (656-61), which broke out with the murder of Caliph `Uthman, had a profound effect not only on subsequent Islamic political and religious institutions, but also on later Muslims’ views, accounts, and discussions of the community’s early history. This bitter conflict, which necessarily involved extensive controversy concerning the identity and required qualifications of the community’s legitimate leader, laid the foundations for an enduring theological split among Islam’s three major “sects”: the Shi`ites, the Sunnis, and the Kharijis – one that would persist long after the war ended with the assassination of `Ali. |
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Fall, Mohammad M., Ph.D. Howard University, 2001. 244 pages. Adviser: Nwanko, Robert N. Publication Number: AAT 3030628. The research problem addressed in this study derives from the fact that accusations of negative western media reporting of Muslims and their religion, Islam, have become a hot issue for many Muslims in the United States and abroad. For many Muslims, the western media tend to cover their religion from a negative point of view that stems from preconceptions and stereotypes. Some scholars have also attributed the negative coverage of Muslims to already established patterns of portrayals, preconceptions and stereotypes in the minds of westerners about this religious group. It has been argued, for instance, that incidents such as the bombings of the World Trade Center in New York and in the Murrah Federal Building Oklahoma City were widely covered by the media in a way that insinuated a negative image of Muslims. The major aim of this study is to examine if there is a correlation between the size of a U.S. Muslim community and the nature of the local and national press portrayals of Muslims in that community. The study also attempts to find out how the press coverage of Muslims is perceived by Muslim community leaders, specifically, the directors of the Islamic centers in the U.S.A. |
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