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Islamic banking is progressively gaining popularity throughout the world as a result of the numerous benefits, it has provided to humanity in social fields, especially in the field of economy. Similarly, the Islamic banking industry has recently been the main focus of attention for Bangladesh's financial sector. As a result of the Islamic banking system's superiority, several traditional banks have been transformed into Islamic Shariah-based systems. The purpose of this study is to investigate the progress of the Islamic banking industry and it also assessed its contributions. The paper used secondary sources such as academic papers, textbooks, reports, websites, and the financial ratio analysis was utilized. The study finds that despite the global recession and other barriers, Islamic banks outperform traditional banks with a market share of around 28% (more than one-fourth) in the entire banking sector in Bangladesh and more than 49,433 employees in the Islamic banking industry. The study concluded that although Bangladesh does not have an Islamic banking act and a central Shariah board by the Bangladesh government, it is making rapid progress and Islamic banking has enormous potential in Bangladesh. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It is obvious for countries that development is as much important as economic growth. One of the most important factors that affect both growth and development is the human capital potential of the country. Seize and quality of human capital has a repercussion that affects development process positively and accelerates the process. The most important factors that affect human capital are the properties of education and health sector of a country. It is accepted that quality and quantity of thehuman capital which is progressed via education and health services affects the development process positively. It may be possible both to gather information about human capital of the countries' using their own databases on the education and health sector and benefit from Human Development Index (HDI) which is accepted as the most basic international data. In this paper, the progress of human capital in Turkey is presented by using education and health indicators and HDI data. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The food industry in Turkey has undergone significant changes in recent years, including the increased use of automation and the adoption of standardized production processes. These changes have had a profound impact on the skills required of those labour in the food industry and have led to the de-skilling of the labour force. De-skilling may be beneficial for firms in the short run, but will adversely affect the long-term competitiveness of the industry and limit opportunities for labour. Potential policy interventions are needed to mitigate the negative effects of de-skilling and to promote a more skilled labour force in the food industry in Turkey. In essence, this study examines the challenges and consequences of deskilling in the food industry in Turkey, including its effects on employment, wages and labour autonomy. This paper essentially examines the challenges and consequences of de-skilling in the food industry in Turkey, including its effects on employment, wages and labour autonomy. Accordingly, as in many other areas, de-skilling affects the basic dynamics of workers in the food industry, such as income, employment, unemployment and indebtedness. In this context, the challenges and consequences of the deskilling of the labour force in the food industry will be discussed based on the data obtained from fieldwork in chain food firms operating in Bolu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the existence of digital divide at the regional level empirically in Turkey. For this purpose, the digital divide of 12 regions at the TR Nuts 1 level was analyzed using EDAS and MAIRCA methods. The analysis was made separately with the 2011 and August 2021 data, and in this way, the ten-year variation of the digital divide between the regions was revealed. As a result of the analysis, it has been revealed that there is a significant digital gap between regions in Turkey and the distribution of this gap within the regions has hardly changed in the last ten years. As of 2021, the ranking of 12 regions regarding digital division has been determined as Istanbul, West Anatolia, East Marmara, Aegean, Mediterranean, Central Anatolia, East Black Sea, West Marmara, Southeast Anatolia, West Black Sea, Middle East Anatolia, Northeast Anatolia regions. The parallelism of the results of this study with previous empirical studies in the literature reveals that the digital divide in Turkey has continued with similar differences for many years. This paper is different from other studies in the literature in that it includes the comparison of the last ten years and makes use of multi-criteria decision-making methods in the detection of the digital divide. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Social history opens new perspectives into understanding the Ottoman modernization process by focusing on different social actors rather than seeing the state as the only agent of the process. This approach rejects considering ordinary people in the Ottoman Empire as passive recipients of top-down modernization policies or reactionary forces against modernization. An important aspect of understanding the role of social actors in the modernization process is to reflect on their consumption practices, as consumption has become the widespread social and economic behavior for social differentiation in modern times. By focusing on the changes in clothing and fashion; media and advertisement; use of public spaces; leisure activities and charity; and cultural consumption in the 19th century Ottoman Empire, this paper argues that consumption practices of different social groups in the Ottoman Empire explains how they locate themselves within the general social structure against other social groups and the state. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Today we live in a global world. Perhaps most of us could not have imagined that the modern world would reach this level. The development of the internet and technology is bringing the people in the world and the countries they live closer to each other in every field. Some of us can say that these developments have many good aspects. But we must admit that there are bigger problems than we've never experienced before. Especially when we consider the increase in consumption, our destruction of nature and other living species, and the increasing number of poor and hungry people in the world became more visible. With climate change, the gradual decrease in clean water resources, increase in drought, decrease in the amount of harvest, etc., hunger-poverty continues to increase day by day. What can we do in the face of these problems? Will humanity be able to find a way out to these problems, which will have great consequences in a short time? Philosophers like Peter Singer have tried to develop an ethical life in which we can make the world more livable in the face of our global problems, rather than being passive and hopeless. In this paper, we will discuss Singer's proposal for global ethical life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study aims to research the levels of envy and being envied in an organization of academic staff whose reasons for envy and being envied are academic output and achievements. Likewise, investigating the differentiation of levels for envy and being envied according to demographic features and detecting whether there is a relation between envy and being envied are among the aims of this paper. The data was gathered from academics of Yozgat Bozok University using the survey method. According to the research sample data from 208 valid survey participants, it is precipitated that the academicians' levels of being envied are found medium while their envy levels are found low. Furthermore, significant differentiations were detected regarding being envied variable according to age, educational level, title, salary range, marital status, and working hours. On the other hand, considering the envy variable, significant differentiation was found according to features like title, salary range and working hours. No significant differentiation was found as for gender. Besides these, a significant, negative and robust relation between envy and being envied was detected regarding the research results. In order to set an example for their associate workers, the academic staffs, who are considered to be envied, can keep the academic satisfaction at a high level in order to increase or continue their academic activities as it is possible for the envying academic staffs being in dense academic activities and increasing their contribution to science. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Middle Eastern societies have been struggling with construction of Nation State and with pains that have been created during this process for nearly a century. In which the Turkish society is trying to make sense of what happened in this region. Othering and Marginalization of Arab community during the nation-state building process have brought the alienation of political and social actors from this environment. In this paper, it will be examined the experience of nationalism from all aspect in order to give screenshot to the Turkish decision-makers and intellectuals trying to be reactive in the last five years in Middle Eastern region. Especially during the analysing of Middle East in consideration of our own experiences is one of the main mistake what we do on the commenting and examining these societies. Within this framework, Arab nationalism comes almost everyone's mind in the Middle Eastern societies, when it’s called nationalism. In this paper, it will be defended the thesis that this perception is missing. Actually there is some serious regional nationalist movements in the Middle East which is the most basic parameters of nation-building process in the region. It will be examined on the basis of Egyptian Territorial Nationalism. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

DEA, which is a member of the family of the performance analysis, is a technique that allows the evaluation of homogeneous systems themselves. The relative effectiveness of achieved similar outcomes in which analyzes with similar entries, can be performed with this technique. In this paper, it is aimed to analyze to efficiency of some firms which operate in Suşehri Small Industrial Site. So that the firms which effectivenes analysis is performed, are small-scale and similar to each other, it was used to CCR and BCC methods which are basic data envelopment analysis methods, in the paper. 4 entries and 2 outcomes are used in the paper and at the end of this work, it is determined to activity that must be increased or be reduced, for increase to level of relative efficiency for all firms used in our study. As a result of study, it is observed that the firms that KVB 1, KVB 5, KVB 9, KVB 10, KVB 12 and KVB 15 do not catch the eff iency levels of both technical and total events, but the other firms catch this levels. At the end of the analysis, we arrive at a resut that the firms are effective in which working at Suşehri Small Industrial Site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

For centuries Andalusian Muslims have represented Islam in Europe. During this time they built a tremendous culture and civilization and they introduced superior humanitarian achievements of East and Islam to Europeans. They show in the best way that people can live together despite their differences. During their ruling periods, They gave rights to the different religious and ethnic groups in Europe and they have ensured them to live in peace without being subjected to any distinction. In this peaceful environment, everyone‟s rights and freedoms to live together is ensured by correctly understood and applied Islamic faith. In addition to this things which are inherent in Islam such as the importance of science, encouraging scholars for devoloping new methods and contributions of scholars to humanity using all available science methods, should not be ignored as they offered great benefits to humanity. As a result many scientists who made great contrubitions to world science history have been trained in this region during this period. Yahya b. Yahya el-Leysî (d. 849), Abbas Kasım b. Firnas (d. 888), İbn Hazm (d. 1064), İbn Abdilberr (d. 1070), Muhammed b. Rüşd (d. 1198), Muhammed b. Ahmed el -Kurtubî (d. 1273), Muhyiddin İbn-i Arabî (d. 1239), Muhammed b. Haldun (d. 1406), are just a few of these important names. İbn Hazm is the most popular one among those names and he is known as the most productive writer in Islamic World after Taberî. Both in his time and in later centuries, he had a very important position with his works and especially with his effort to codification of the Zahiri school of Islamic thought. As a “European Muslim Scholar”, Ibn Hazm‟s ideas about war and peace are important, and they should be mentioned in history of Islam in which global peace is spoken. In this paper, we will try to shed light on Ibn Hazm‟s perception of war and peace on the basis of “Kitab al -Jihad” chapter in his masterpiece al-Muhalla bi‟l-Âsâr. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Via 1789 French Revolution, it was thought that religion which is dismissed from social life would disappear in modern society over time. However, the question of what will replace this power which has provided the integration of societies for thousand years has pursued its existence as a problematic. Sociology as a new science born in a disrupted social order after the Revolution, will try to produce the knowledge not only of how the society is possible but also of how will the social order be organized. The power that will ensure reconstruction of a social order is actually the “ substitute religion” invented by this new science. The purpose of this paper is to present how the leading theorists of the Enlightenment such as C. Montesquieu, J. J. Rousseau and Saint -Simon and the French sociology including the perspective of E. Durkheim after approximately a century when A. Comte founded sociology at the beginning of the 19th century have generated this “substitute religion”. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Political marketing is the all of the effort that political parties and candidates make to win the election or reach the target vote rate. Nowadays, ideology concept loses its importance for voters and political parties head voters with similar issues. In order to direct preferences of voters to a specific political party or candidate against similar programs and promises, political parties and candidates are required to express themselves appropriately to the voters. The aim of this paper is to investigate whether political marketing effort have effect on the preferences of first time voters. For this purpose, a survey is conducted to students of 10 high school that take place in Izmir, Buca and the results were evaluated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]