The Coordination Function of Islamic Ethics in Transforming Islamic Societies

2011 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 17-36
Author(s):  
Yueqin LIU
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Ethics ◽  
Coordination Function

Ummah’s Rights or Human Rights? Universalism, Individualism, and Islamic Ethics in the Twenty-first Century

2010 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie-Luisa Frick
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Other ◽  
Moral Code ◽  
Bill Of Rights ◽  
Islamic Ethics ◽  
Specific Content ◽  
Societal Needs ◽  
The One ◽  
The Individual

Against the background of the trend of Islamizing human rights on the one hand, as well as increasing skepticism about the compatibility of Islam and human rights on the other, I intend to analyze the potential of Islamic ethics to meet the requirements for vitalizing the idea of human rights. I will argue that the compatibility of Islam and human rights cannot be determined merely on the basis of comparing the specific content of the Islamic moral code(s) with the rights stipulated in the International Bill of Rights, but by scanning (different conceptions of) Islamic ethics for the two indispensable formal prerequisites of any human rights conception: the principle of universalism (i.e., normative equality) and individualism (i.e., the individual enjoyment of rights). In contrast to many contemporary (political) attempts to reconcile Islam and human rights due to urgent (global) societal needs, this contribution is solely committed to philosophical reasoning. Its guiding questions are “What are the conditions for deriving both universalism and individualism from Islamic ethics?” and “What axiological axioms have to be faded out or reorganized hierarchically in return?”

The Ethics of Wasaṭīyah and the Pursuit of Gender Equality

2015 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 47-65
Author(s):  
Etin Anwar
Keyword(s):  
Gender Equality ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Ethical Framework ◽  
Islamic Ethics ◽  
Men And Women

The paper deals with the concept of wasaṭīyah (moderation) as an ethical framework for community making and its impact on the pursuit of gender equality. Qur’an 2:143 speaks about the correlation between making a fair community (al-ummah al-wasaṭ) and piety, which is inclusive of both men and women. As both terms are intertwined, any efforts to discuss wasaṭīyah must include how Muslims relate to God and how this relationship is exercised in all areas of their lives. Given that this intersection is a matter of ethics, my paper will demonstrate that wasaṭīyah affords the inclusion of both genders as ethical agents in the pursuit of a fair community. I first discuss how the ethics of wasaṭīyah provide a framework for community building by drawing some parallels between Prophet Muhammad’s creation of a fair and inclusive community and how Muslims could embody God’s message within themselves and their communities. I then show how including women in the community-making process echoes both the Islamic ethics of moderation and the value of women as ethical agents.

scholarly journals Performance Analysis of Synchronous Multi-Radio Multi-Link MAC Protocols in IEEE 802.11be Extremely High Throughput WLANs

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 317
Author(s):  
Taewon Song ◽  
Taeyoon Kim
Keyword(s):  
Ieee 802.11 ◽  
Markov Chain Model ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Mac Protocols ◽  
Media Access Control ◽  
Chain Model ◽  
Distributed Coordination ◽  
Media Access ◽  
Medium Access ◽  
Coordination Function

The representative media access control (MAC) mechanism of IEEE 802.11 is a distributed coordination function (DCF), which operates based on carrier-sense multiple access with collision avoidance (CSMA/CA) with binary exponential backoff. The next amendment of IEEE 802.11 being developed for future Wi-Fi by the task group-be is called IEEE 802.11be, where the multi-link operation is mainly discussed when it comes to MAC layer operation. The multi-link operation discussed in IEEE 802.11be allows multi-link devices to establish multiple links and operate them simultaneously. Since the medium access on a link may affect the other links, and the conventional MAC mechanism has just taken account of a single link, the DCF should be used after careful consideration for multi-link operation. In this paper, we summarize the DCFs being reviewed to support the multi-radio multi-link operation in IEEE 802.11be and analyze their performance using the Markov chain model. Throughout the extensive performance evaluation, we summarize each MAC protocol’s pros and cons and discuss essential findings of the candidate MAC protocols.

Western Financial Agents and Islamic Ethics

2013 ◽  
Vol 123 (3) ◽  
pp. 475-491 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eddy S. Fang ◽  
Renaud Foucart
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Ethics

CONCEPT AND FUNCTION OF REASON IN ISLAMIC ETHICS

Oriens ◽  
1962 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
G. E. von Grunebaum
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Ethics ◽  
And Function

four-jointed is required for intermediate growth in the proximal-distal axis in Drosophila

Development ◽  
1995 ◽  
Vol 121 (9) ◽  
pp. 2767-2777 ◽  
Author(s):  
J.L. Villano ◽  
F.N. Katz
Keyword(s):  
Optic Lobe ◽  
Regional Growth ◽  
Positional Information ◽  
In Vitro Translation ◽  
Translation System ◽  
Regional Pattern ◽  
Microsomal Membranes ◽  
Position Sensitive ◽  
Coordination Function

Genes capable of translating positional information into regulated growth lie at the heart of morphogenesis, yet few genes with this function have been identified. Mutants in the Drosophila four-jointed (fj) gene show reduced growth and altered differentiation only within restricted sectors of the proximal-distal (PD) axis in the leg and wing, thus fj is a candidate for a gene with this coordination function. Consistent with a position-sensitive role, we show that fj is expressed in a regional pattern in the developing leg, wing, eye and optic lobe. The fj gene encodes a novel type II membrane glycoprotein. When the cDNA is translated in an in vitro translation system in the presence of exogenous microsomal membranes, the intralumenal portion of some of the molecules is cleaved, yielding a secreted C-terminal fragment. We propose that fj encodes a secreted signal that functions as a positive regulator of regional growth and differentiation along the PD axis of the imaginal discs.

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