DISCOU.RSE
VOLUMEg NUMBER1
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INTE,RNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIAEditor
Zafar Afaq Ansari Book ReviewEditor
Abdul Rashid Moten Editorial Board
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Kamal Hassan Mohammad ArisHj.
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Volume 9
Number
1Intellectual
Discourse
A Journal
of theKulliyyah
(Faculty)of Islamic
Revealed Knowledge andHuman
Sciences200t
INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA
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CONTENTS
Articles
Values, the Economy and Metaeconomics in the 2000 US Presidential Election:
A
Historical Perspective (1896-1996) M u h amm ad Aif
7-n ka u I I a hMiskawaih's Thoughts on Human Personality
Bakhtiar Husain Siddiqui
Hanali Biographical Dictionaries:
A
Survey Ermin SinanovicThe Concept of Culture and Cultural Transformation Views of Malik Bennabi
Abdulaziz Berghout
Developing a History Curriculum:
An Islamic Perspective Mohsen M.S. Saleh Book Review
The Socio-Political Thought of Shah Wali Allah, by Muhammad al-Ghazali
Hassan Ahmed lbrahim
Preparing the Information Professional:
An Agenda for the Future, by Sajjad ur Rehman.
Mumtaz A.
Anwar
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Mental Health in Malaysia:
Issues and Concerns, edited by Amber Haque.
Khairol Anuar Masuan
Visible Women in East Coast Malay Society:
On the Reproduction of Gender in Ceremonial, School and Market, by Ingrid Rudie
Nor Faridah Abdul
Manaf
111Study on Second Language Learner of Arabic:
An Error Analysis Approach, by Jassem
Ali
JassemHaja Mohideen Mohamed
Ali ll2
Conferences
International Conference for Library and Information Science Educators in the Asia Pacific Region
Ahmad Bakei Abu
Bakar lt7
International Conference on Religion and Mental Health Ashiq
Ali
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Raji al-Fdriqi and Loislimy'd
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\l::ammad Qamaruddin Khan, "Al-Miward," in M.M. Sharif ed., A History of:
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