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Introduction to Medical Imaging Zakat and Poverty Alleviation
Zainul Ibrahim Zainuddin Edited by: Mohd Mahyudi Mohd Yusof & Naziruddin Abdullah

ISBN 978-967-418-249-6 ISBN 978-967-418-011-9
Pages : 327 Pages : 222
Price : RM 65.00 Price : RM 65.00
Year : 2014 Year : 2015

Medical Imaging is an area of This edited book aims to raise
specialissation in medicine. It issues pertaining to the topic of
serves to provide images of the zakat and its primary goal of poverty
human anatomy that will be used alleviation. It portrays the dynamism
to assist in managing a patient’s of zakat by highlighting pertinent
medical condition. This book issues on the management of
aims to give a comprehensive zakat institutions and innovative
overview for students to gain programmes that are designed as
knowledge about Medical Imaging, possibly as a career effective distribution mechanisms. Discussions include
prospect. It is also designed to provide information to the zakat payment motives, ways to measure the efficiency
general public about Medical Imaging, and readers would of zakat disbursement, economic development initiatives,
be able to follow discussions relating Medical Imaging housing programme, microfinancing, and actual impact on
to healthcare, procedures, modalities, patient factors, poverty alleviation. The discussions raised put emphasis
professional matters, risk management, research, and the on policy-orientation with dedicated sections on policy
concept of optimization. It is hoped that this effort would implications and recommendations. This approach is
provide adequate information concerning Medical Imaging. deemed necessary since it could guide the thought process
The chapters are carefully organized based on common of interested parties towards the creation of new ideas to
knowledge concerning the field and they are presented in a actualize zakat as a very reliable tool in addressing the
single reader-friendly publication. massive problem of poverty among Muslim communities.
This special feature also significantly adds to the much-
needed reference materials in courses on zakat at the
ECONOMICS/BANKING/FINANCE intermediate level of undergraduate studies and introductory
level of postgraduate programmes.
Waqf Laws and Management
Syed Khalid Rashid Small and Medium Enterprises in Muslim
Countries
ISBN 978-967-418-444-5 Edited by: Moha Asri Abdullah & Muhammad-Bashir
Pages : 650 Owolabi Yusuf
Price : RM 85.00
Year : 2017 ISBN 978-967-418-303-5
Pages : 372
This book is a thorough and thought- Price : RM 69.00
provoking study of waqf laws and Year : 2015
management by scholars of very
many countries including Malaysia, Small and medium enterprises
India, Turkey, Bangladesh, are dominant in every economy
Nigeria, Bosnia- Herzegovina, etc. irrespective of its level and
The millions of awqÉf scattered stage of development. Naturally,
throughout the world are capable microenterprises begin small,
of generating income of billions of dollars, but could not and then grow to medium size
do so because of mis-management of governments as and ultimately to large size, even
well as non-governmental organizations. An effort is made though that is not always the case.
in all the eighteen chapters of this book to discuss and Having recognized the overwhelming role of SMEs in terms
identify measures, both legal and managerial, to achieve of employment generation and income creation through
good governance of awqÉf to make them more productive. productivity enhancement, SMEs are being treated as
The book also contains, for the first time in Malaysia, a engine of growth particularly in the developing countries.
comprehensive narration of the statutory waqf Laws of all However, over the last half a century sovereign governments
the States and Federal Territories in Malaysia. Everyone, have been treating different sectors/policies as engines of
including lawyers, researchers and waqf administrators, will growth. In the 1960s, the slogan was, ‘trade not aid’, as
find it very beneficial. an engine of development. Subsequently, the emphasis
has been shifting from import-substitution/inward-looking to

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