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Spotlights on the Architecture of Margelan Mosques in Uzbekistan (13- 14th A.H / 19 - 20th A.D) Centuries

Mahmoud Roshdy Islamic Department, Faculty of Archaeology, Cairo University, Egypt  ABSTRACT  City of Margilan is considered one of the most important cities in the Republic of Uzbekistan that having a lot of different architectural monuments , some of them still remain ,others were destroyed by Russian invasion so we don’t know a lot about them , despite their great number the city didn’t have the same fame of the other cities in Central Asia such as Bukhara ,Samarqand , Khiva and Tashkent . In addition the period of Manghit rule ( 1200-1338 A.H / 1785 – 1920 A.D ) had a lot of mosques that showing the flourishing of architectural activity that arise our interest to study the architecture of the mosques of that period as well as making a comparison with other cities , the contemporary and previous in Uzbekistan that reflecting creations and architectural traditions of Ferghana valley , in addition it shows the skills of architects and artists that having a high degr...

Salaries, Performance and Mediating Effect of Altruistic Behavior : Fresh Statistical Evidence from the National Basketball Association Full Text

Faisal Asghar1 and Mubeen Asif2 1 School of management University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei Anhui P.R.C 2 School of public affairs University of Science and Technology of China, Hefei Anhui P.R.C  ABSTRACT The objective of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between salary, job performance, and Altruistic Behavior and to verify whether there is any link between these three variables. Empirical research conducted by using regression analysis on a research sample of 30 National Basketball Association teams including 1566 players from the period 2012-2013 to 2015-2016. The findings of this study indicate that salary is positively correlated with altruistic behavior and also with job performance. In addition, altruistic behavior has a significant positive impact on job performance and exerts mediating effect between the relationship of salary and job performance.  KEYWORDS   Job performance, Altruistic behavior, Salary, Nat...

Gender Analysis of the Nigerian Health Sector

Uthman A. Abdulqadir Department of Sociology,Faculty of Social Sciences,Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria  ABSTRACT   The paper analyzed the gender disparity in the Nigerian health sector. The study focused particularly on somestates in Northern Nigeria that shared similar demographic characteristics. The paper provided an in-depth analysis of how women who constituted the largest percentage of health ‘consumers’ are dominated by men working in the sector. The paper revealed that the disparity between men and women or male dominance in the health sector is a result of the cultural orientation of the people in Northern Nigeria who give preference to male child education than females. It has established that long duration that students spent undergoing training has dissuaded the inhabitants of the Northern Nigeria who are Hausa and Muslim to enroll their female children into medical schools. This is because the culture of Hausa people and their interpretatio...

Between Moral Decadence and Melting Pot in Nigeria : An Islamic Perspective

1Muhammad Maga Sule, 2Abubakar Shettima 1Department of Islamic Studies, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto, Nigeria 2Kashim Ibrahim College of Education, Maiduguri,Borno State  ABSTRACT  This paper attempts to look at the various immoral activities available in the Nigerian society such as cultism, armed robbery, corruption, abortion, fornication, obscene dressing, theft, violence, looting, killing, and many more. These are some of dreadful acts which have deprived Nigeria of its due development.Moral decadence in the life of Nigerians appears to be spreading too fast as to be noticed in every facet of the society. This cancerous disease spreads like gangrene among Nigerians of every decade. This decadent behaviour is manifested in every sphere of life. At the rate they are presently moving, one wonders whether the future of this country would be safe. This paper therefore makes an in road into seeing the Islamic approaches to solving moral degeneration in the socie...

The Tourist Potential of the Roman Road of Sao Mamede De Ribatua, Alijo

Pedro Ricardo C. de Azevedo University of Minho ABSTRACT  This article aims to present the historical and cultural importance of the existing Roman road in São Mamede de Ribatua, Alijó, in north of Portugal. It is intended to demonstrate that it is an important patrimonial resource for the region and should be valued in terms of tourism. KEYWORDS  Roman Roads;Medieval Roads; Tourism; Tourist Route More Details:    http://airccse.com/ijhas/papers/3218ijhas05.pdf http://airccse.com/ijhas/current.html

Formation of Post-Traumatic Narratives (Case: Georgian and Russian Narratives after the August 2008)

Nino Tabeshadze PhD in Culture, Professor of Georgian Insttitute of Public Affairs (GIPA), Invited Professor at Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University.  ABSTRACT  A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have’ – these words of Abraham Lincoln can easily be applied to the position of Georgian Policy-makers of such post-soviet country as Georgia. Georgian policymakers actively started to search for friends by creating the image of ‘shared enemy’, especially in 2009- 2012. This shared enemy was the Soviet Union. States united in Soviet Union should have higher solidarity towards each other than the others. This became clearly seen during the August War 2008 when Georgian politicians underlined the influence of Soviet Union stating that opposing country could not overcome the memory of past glory. It is not the secret, that the policy-makers have big impact on society. Especially on the society which was traumatized by the war. For Georgian community politi...

The Impediments to the Creation of New Local Government Areas Under the 1999 Constitution in Nigeria

Abdullahi Suleiman Otiwe Undergraduate; Faculty of Law, Kogi State University, Anyigba, Nigeria  ABSTRACT  This work investigates the constitutionality of the power for the creation of new Local Government Areas under the 1999 Constitution in Nigeria. It posits that the purpose of the grant of such power as “quasiexclusive legislative preserve” to the State is to enable the Local Communities have ease opportunity to push home the demand for the local authorities of their choice as one of the cardinal principles of Federalism. The work equally examines the constitutional basis of the National Assembly in making Consequential Provisions as assent to the constitutional exercise of the power vested in the State and how the National Assembly has exercised this power to veto the valid law of the State. This is what brought the principle of Inchoate in the Supreme Court decided case exposing the obstacle to the creation of new local government areas under the constitution ...