Contemporary Islamic legal studies—both inside and outside the Muslim world— commonly relies upon a secular distortion of law. In this article, I use translation as a metonym for secular transformations and, accordingly, I will demonstrate how secular ideology translates the Islamic tradition. A secular translation converts the Islamic tradition into “religion” (the non-secular) a…
SITOREM or Scientific Identification Theory for Conducting Operations Research on Education Management is a practical optimization technique used for making decisions on action plans in the field of education management considering that management resources are limited. This study aims to determine and organize ways into an action plan so that it becomes an optimal solution to increase teacher …
We are presently witnessing a great shift in how young people learn and in the benefits that social software has to offer. New technologies can augment and build on traditional forms of social learning, giving birth to an improved and more multifaceted approach to knowledge acquisition that complements the current more general shift toward an increasingly technological world. The purpose of thi…
This study investigates the structure of consumer beliefs and attitudes toward advertising in a leading-edge, new market economy of Central and Eastern Europe--the Czech Republic. Based on a national sample, Czech consumers' beliefs about advertising's informational value and its role in the nation's economy explained their attitudes toward advertising significantly. Our data also revealed five…