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Nurul Izzah (left) receiving a trophy to commemorate her win from Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin  while Nur Jannah (centre), Director of Yayasan Nurul Yaqeen looks on. ISDEV once again celebrate its student’s successful achievement and this time, the good news came from both Master and PhD students.  Nurul Izzah Md Rodzi won the prestigious and much coveted Yayasan Nurul Yaqeen Best Thesis Award 2014 for the Master’s degree category and received RM10,000 in cash, a trophy as well as a certificate of appreciation. Nurul Izzah making the news in Bernama and Utusan Malaysia, 26 and 27 June 2014 publications. Nurul Izzah from the MISDEV’12 (ISDEV Postgraduate Mixed-Mode) cohort graduated from USM last April 2014. Her winning research, supervised by Dr Zakaria Bahari, was on “Sikap Waris Terhadap Pentadbiran Harta Pusaka: Kajian di Unit Pembahagian Pusaka Kecil (UPP) Kedah Utara dari Perspektif Pegawai dan Waris” (Heir’s Attitude on the Administration of Small Intestates: Study at the S...

The family of ISDEV wishes all a happy and blessed Ramadhan. May Allah SWT ease us in enjoying the maximum virtue of the month, entailing with the highest iman and taqwa, InshaAllah.

Six of the books and journals in which the articles by ISDEV academics appeared. Nine articles by ISDEV academics have been published recently in eight different books and journals, as follows: MUHAMMAD SYUKRI SALLEH (2014). “Pembasmian Kemiskinan Melalui Pemerkasaan Pendidikan Ummah”, dlm. Ahmad Zaki Abdul Latiff dan Baharuddin Sayin (eds.),  Pengurusan Zakat Di Institusi Pengajian Tinggi: Pengalaman & Hala Tuju. Shah Alam, Selangor: Akademi Pengajian Islam Kontemporari (ACIS),  Universiti Teknologi MARA, p.29 -40. MUHAMMAD SYUKRI SALLEH (2014). “Islamisasi Pemikiran Pembangunan”, dlm. Azuar Juliandi (ed.), Islamisasi Pembangunan . Medan, Indonesia: Universitas Muhammadiyah Sumatera Utara (UMSU) Press, p. 1- 8. MUHAMMAD SYUKRI SALLEH & MOHD SYAKIR MOHD ROSDI (2014). Islamic Political Economy : A Special Reference to the Use of Tahaluf Siyasi in the State of Kelantan, Malaysia, American International Journal of Contemporary Research ,  Vol. 4 No.5, May ...

The RISDEV student himself - Farid Wajdi in action responding to the questions posed to him. ISDEV received another good news in the arena of viva voce of its RISDEV (ISDEV Postgraduate by Research) student. Farid Wajdi has added the tally to ISDEV records of "Excellent PhD Thesis". He was awarded Grade 1 (the highest scale accorded to by Universiti Sains Malaysia for a viva ) by the Board of Examiners during his viva on Friday 20 June 2014 at C06, School of Social Sciences. ISDEV members strongly behind Farid's back silently pray for Allah SWT for his success during the viva His viva which was held at 3:00 p.m. on a blessed Friday afternoon saw him defending his PhD thesis on " Undang-Undang, Pentadbiran dan Penguatkuasaan Logo Halal di Indonesia: Kajian Kes di Sumatera Utara " (The Laws, Administration and Enforcement of Halal Logo in Indonesia: Case Study of North Sumatera) with a very cool, calm and collected disposition. The Board of Examiners unanimously a...

[He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving - (al-Mulk, 67:2).

Dr. Zakaria (2nd from right) evaluating two PhD theses proposals. The ISDEV Graduate Discourse for June was held at the University Conference Hall (DPU) on Thursday 19 June, 2014. This month's session saw two PhD thesis proposals being evaluated before candidates were allowed to proceed with their PhD thesis research. However, this is the first time that one of the PhD thesis proposal presentations is by a PhD candidate from Universiti Utara Malaysia (UUM). Mohd. Zulkifli Muhammad listening intently to a question posed on his PhD thesis proposal. The first PhD thesis proposal was defended by a RISDEV (ISDEV Postgraduate by Research) student, Mohd Zulkifli Muhammad. He is embarking his research on  Andaian Dalam Ekonomi Islam Arus Perdana: Satu Penilaian Semula (Assumptions in Mainstream Islamic Economics: A Re-evaluation). Mohd Zulkifli's main supervisor is Professor Dr. Muhammad Syukri Salleh. In the meantime his co-supervisor is Dr. Fadzila Azni Ahmad while Dr. Zakaria Bahari...

  A sypnosis through pictures of the meeting held at C05 between ISDEV members and the representatives from Qatar University The Dean of Syariah Faculty, Qatar University, Dr. A. Hakeem Yousuf A Alkhelaifi accompanied by Dr. Sultan al-Hashimi, Associate Dean for Research and Graduate Studies, Qatar University paid a visit to ISDEV on 29 May 2014 with a mission to strengthen the Islamic ukhuwwah (brotherhood) between these two institutions. Prof Syukri (centre) giving a short presentation about ISDEV This visit is a follow-up to the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) signed between Universiti Sains Malaysia and Qatar University. ISDEV Director, Prof Muhammad Syukri Salleh who started the meeting, gave a detailed overview of ISDEV which included the various academic courses offered, past and on-going research that ISDEV is embarked in as well as ISDEV plans for the future.   (From Right to Left) Dr. A. Hakeem Yousuf A. Alkhelaifi , Dr. Haji Musa Ali,   Prof Syukri Salleh, a...