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CONTENTS EDITORIAL v ARTICLES Exploring the Futures of the Ummah: A Review of Simulation Models and Approaches to the Study of Alternative Futures So hail I nayatullah .
. 1 The Concept and Role of Culture in Socio-Scientific Systems: Some Case Studies Masudul Alam Choudhury 31 Issues in Corporate Accountability and Governance: An Islamic Perspective Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman 55 Toward an Islamic Aesthetic Theory Omar W.
Naseem 71 REVIEW ESSAY Ibn Sina and Mysticism Sarni S.
Hawi 91 REFLECTIONS Democracy and Islam in Malek Bennabi's Thought .
Zoubir 107 Science, Objectivity and Ethics in Research Methodology Nasr Arif 113 BOOK REVIEWS City of Stones: Hidden History of Jerusalem (by Meron Benvenisti) Raif Y.
Nijem 127 Educational Dualism in Malaysia: Implications for Theory and Practice (by Rosnani Hashim) Hasan Langgu/ung 134 Competing Visions of Islam in the United States: A Study of Los Angeles (by Kambiz GhaneaBassiri) Ahmed Hussain 136 Orientalism in Lord Byron's "Turkish Tales": The Giaour (1813), The Bride of Abydos (1813), The Corsair (1814) and The Seige of Corinth (1813) (by Abdur Raheem Kidwai) lmtiaz Hasnain 139 Reform within Islam: The Tajdid and Jadid Movement Among the Kazan Tatars (1819-1917) Conciliation or Conflict ?
(by Ahmet Kanhdere) Bedri Gencer 142 A Fundamental Fear-Eurocentrism and the Emergence of Islamism (by Bobby S.
M. Asma/ 145 Global Trap (by Hans-Peter Martin and Harold Schumann) Tariq El-Diwany 149 CONFERENCE REPORTS International Seminar on Counseling and Psychotherapy: An Islamic Perspective Amber Haque 153 Islam and Peace M.
A. Muqtedar Khan 158 Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance Bashir Al-Zu'bi 162 DISSERTATIONS 167