This collection archives books written or edited by the faculty of Institute of Business Administration.
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Islamic ethics of technology : an objectives (Maqasid) approach
Amana Raquib
This book approaches the question of technology from an Islamic ethical perspective. The book tries to broaden the scope of the Sharia to deal comprehensively with the ethical questions and dilemmas that arise in the midst of a postmodern technological culture due to the absence of well-defined religious-ethical ends. It looks at the maqasid as a universal ethical theory to be interpreted and applied in the global technological context. It weaves the contemporary philosophical analysis of technology within the maqasid discourse and assesses modern technology through the lens of the ultimate aims and purposes of the Sharia. It works out the relationship between the various objectives and how they can be developed into an Islamic ethics of technology. Following in the recent interest in the objectives of the Sharia, the book further expands the scope of the maqasid and carries it further to encompass metaphysical and ethical debates surrounding technology. Anyone interested in finding alternatives to the existing technological model will find this book valuable. Specifically those interested in Islam and Modern World and how ijtihad is being undertaken to tackle contemporary ethical problems will find this book helpful.
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Explaining the major themes in English poetry: religion, nature, classics, romance, individual struggle, politics
Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid
The text focuses on six major themes often found in canonical English poetry. These include religion, nature, classics, romance, individual struggle, and politics. Using representative works of famous poets including, but not limited to, Milton, Donne, Shakespeare, Keats, Kipling and the Rossetti siblings, the book links poems on diverse and varied topics (such as the Virgin Mary, colonial India, and Tudor history) in order to illustrate the richness and complexity of the literary canon.
An impressive and compelling contribution to the study of poetry that will enchant students of literature and casual readers for years to come. Instead of using chronological division of works the author arranges the poems according to central themes in literature. The text’s main aim is to make challenging poems more approachable and accessible to young undergraduates. -
Eighteenth-century influences on Jane Austen's early fiction
Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid
This text examines how the Gothic writing of Ann Radcliffe and the eighteenth-century novels of Fanny Barney helped to shape and hone Jane Austen’s own eighteenth century literary endeavors. It specifically focuses on Austen’s early works Northanger Abbey, Lady Susan, and Sense and Sensibility, all of which were conceived and shaped during the last decade of the 1700’s. It closely follows the manner in which Austen eschewed the popular epistolary genre in favour of the novel-form, how she mastered the parodic-Gothic form, and created characters that while uniquely hers owed a great deal to the late-eighteenth century English milieu of which they have become major cultural elements.
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Reforming the government in Pakistan
Ishrat Husain
Following its creation in 2006, the NCGR was tasked with producing an analysis and recommendations on how government, its institutions and infrastructure can become more effective to meet the social, economic and political challenges that Pakistan faces in the 21st century. This report produced by the commission after deliberations during these two years is comprehensive and covers the restructuring of Government at Federal, Provincial levels, strengthening of the district governments, reorganization of civil services, revamping of human resource management policies and practices, re engineering of business processes. These proposals summarize the findings from extensive research in the field and consultations conducted wit a wide range of stakeholders spanning the public and private sectors, particularly the Federal Secretaries committee and the Provincial Governments.
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Non traditional sources of conflict in South Asia : a study of non traditional sources of conflict in South Asia which exacerbate existing conflicts
Huma Baqai
Conflict remains a South Asian reality with a unilateral focus on territorial security. Nonetheless, an attempt has been made in this book to look into the non-traditional sources of conflict in the region with a special focus on Pakistan and India. The thrust of this research is premised on two specifics. First, the non-traditional security paradigm is a consequence of the widening of security studies into different variants and a result of the world's quest for a sustainable peace in the post-Cold War era. Second, if the non-traditional causes of conflict are not managed, they will not only exacerbate existing conflicts but have the potential of growing into full-fledged conflicts. Peacemaking is a complex process. It is not just linked to the military lesions but is also inclusive of socio-political, economic, and cultural relations among states, and must aim at changing the threat perception of the protagonist. The people are aspiring for a durable peace and better living conditions. Economic, political, social and moral logic calls for it.
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Explaining the canonical Poems of English literature
Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid
Nadya Q.Chishty-Mujahid’s Explaining the Canonical Poems of English Literature spans several centuries of English literature, by examining the canonical poetry of writers such as Shakespeare, Spenser, Marvell, Browning, Tennyson, Elizabeth Barrett, and D.H. Lawrence. Chishty-Mujahid demonstrates that however much we have studied these great poets, there is still room to elucidate on their magnitude. More importantly, Chishty-Mujahid reinvigorates the importance of these masterpieces by rejecting the postmodern argument that these authors are culturally dominant relics of the past. Rather, through her commentary she appeals to the undergraduate and graduate reader that while canonical poetry has undergone several mutations over the centuries those works continue to uplift the soul and remain the apex of literary expression.
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Frontier of faith: a history of religious mobilisation in the Pakhtun tribal areas c. 1890-1950
Sana Haroon
Frontier of Faith examines the history of Islam-especially that of local mullas, or Muslim clerics-in the North-West Frontier (now Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa). A largely autonomous zone straddling the boundary of Pakistan and Afghanistan, the Tribal Areas was established as a strategic buffer zone for British India, and the resulting autonomy allowed local mullas to assume roles of tremendous power. After Partition in 1947, the Tribal Areas maintained its status as an autonomous region, and for the next fifty years the mullas supported armed mobilizations in exchange for protection of their vested interests in regional freedom. Consequently, the Frontier has become the hinterland of successive, contradictory jihads in support of Pashtun ethnicism, anti-colonial nationalism, Pakistani territorialism, religious revivalism, Afghan anti-Soviet resistance, and anti-Americanism. Considering this territory is said to be the current hideout of Osama bin Laden, there couldn't be a better time for a sourcebook detailing the intricacies of the Pakistan-Afghanistan borderlands today and the function of the mullas and their allies.
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Virtual manufacturing
Wasim Ahmed Khan, Abdul Raouf, and Kai Cheng
Virtual Manufacturing presents a novel concept of combining human computer interfaces with virtual reality for discrete and continuous manufacturing systems. The authors address the relevant concepts of manufacturing engineering, virtual reality, and computer science and engineering, before embarking on a description of the methodology for building augmented reality for manufacturing processes and manufacturing systems.
Virtual Manufacturing is centered on the description of the development of augmented reality models for a range of processes based on CNC, PLC, SCADA, mechatronics and on embedded systems. Further discussions address the use of augmented reality for developing augmented reality models to control contemporary manufacturing systems and to acquire micro- and macro-level decision parameters for managers to boost profitability of their manufacturing systems. -
An introduction to western esotericism: essays in the hidden meaning of literature, groups, and games
Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid
This work functions as an introductory text for those new to the discipline, but also presents more advanced-level studies of literary works that will appeal to a more specific critical audience. The interdisciplinary diversity of the work enhances the presentation of certain hitherto unexplored academic vistas of Western Esotericism. This book contains thirty black and white photographs.
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Quality management in Pakistan's export oriented industries
Mahnaz Fatima
This book is a study of nine industrial sub-sectors that include readymade garments, leather garments, surgical instruments, and sports goods, and demonstrates how an industry can maintain its growth path independently of government incentives and protection through increased competitiveness based on quality, cost, and high responsiveness to changing customer needs and external environmental factors. It highlights the importance of quality management through scientific study.
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A guide to business decision making
Abdul Rahim Suriya
The business and accounting world has become a lot more complicated as the accountants as well as users of the financial statements, in pursuance of their own objectives, are using accounting data for taking business decisions. Therefore, today's accountants are expected to be more proficient in business operations, as they are expected to add value to their entities by their ability to bring the right information to bear on a decision.
In this guide, the emphasis is on decisions that have a quantitative basis. However, it must be realized that regardless of the quantitative information available, the actual decision making process invariably also includes consideration of qualitative, psychological and social factors.
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Character development in Edmund Spenser's the Faerie Queene
Nadya Q. Chishty-Mujahid
In her study of Spencer's ability to fuse topical and historical allegory to create characters who were both timely and timeless, Chishty-Mujahid (English, U. of North Alabama) focuses on Spencer's techniques of character development and of character functions. She argues that the strange, heroic and creepy characters who populate the Faerie Queen work to provide a vital framework for structuring the topical allegory and express the implications of the reader's moral development. Chishty-Mujahid demonstrates the ways that Spencer allegorizes important contemporary political events and subjects, such as Elizabethan perceptions of the Virgin Queen, the Catholicism and execution of Mary Stuart, the festering political discontent in Ireland, and the significance of Prince Arthur to Tudor propaganda.
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Standards for engineering design and manufacturing
Wasim Ahmed Khan and Abdul Raouf
Most books on standardization describe the impact of ISO and related organizations on many industries. While this is great for managing an organization, it leaves unanswered questions such as "what are the effects of standards on my designs?" and "how can I use standardization to benefit my work?" Standards for Engineering Design and Manufacturing provides hands-on knowledge for incorporating standards into the entire process from design bench to factory floor.
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Management accounting for financial services
Aman U. Saiyed
Management Accounting for Financial Services” is an expression of the desire to apply the knowledge acquired in the discipline of management accounting for decision making in banks and other financial institutions. The author brings twenty years of his experience of working overseas in the field of accounting profession, especially the management accounting, to bear upon his writing of the book. This is the first compilation of its kind in Pakistan that directs the principles and methodologies of management accounting specifically towards banking and financial industry.
The book comprises of 22 chapters. The first 17 chapters cover management accounting in theory and practice. They are roughly subdivided into cost concepts, management planning in performance evaluation and management accounting for decision-making. The remaining five chapters exclusively deal with using management accounting for decision making in financial service industry. Management today relies heavily on accounting information - reliable and fast – to make decisions. Today, majority of decisions are made on the basis of accounting information pertaining to costs that are of short and mid term duration. The book, therefore, starts with describing the nature of costs, their behavior and their business framework. Costing carries a special meaning in the business environment and the book shows its importance as a decision making tool. Recording and reporting costs i.e., job order costing and process costing are the two common methods of collecting costs. Both these methods are fully discussed in the first part of the book.
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Key issues in Pakistan's economy
Ishrat Husain
Key issues in Pakistan's economy addresses issues related to the Financial sector, Economic Management and Policies, Poverty and Human development and Globalization.This book is a collection of papers, speeches & addresses delivered by Dr. Ishrat Husain, Governor, State Bank of Pakistan.
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Current issues in Pakistan's economy
Ishrat Husain
This book is a compilation of papers, speeches and addresses delivered by Dr. Ishrat Husain, Governor State Bank of Pakistan on current issues in Pakistan's economy as of Finance, Growth, Poverty and Globalization.
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Dollars, debts and deficits : reform and management of Pakistan's economy
Ishrat Husain
This volume consists of two parts. The first is a compilation of the author’s newspaper articles until 1999, and the second comprises his articles in his official capacity as Governor of the State Bank of Pakistan.
The most interesting aspect of the book is the difference between the author’s approach as an outsider and critic before 1999, and his pragmatic approach later in view of the ground realities.
The challenge that faces Pakistan’s economic managers is to accelerate growth, invest in pro-poor and labour intensive activities, create employment opportunities and bring down the incidence of poverty. The next five years are therefore critical in the economic history of Pakistan if they bring about a paradigm shift from the old stop-go cycles to a more orderly and stable way of achieving equitable and sustainable growth for a majority of the population.This book contributes significantly to the policy dialogue on the Pakistan economy and will be indispensable for policy makers, economists and historians.
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Business in its broader perspective: an overview for visualizing business
Matin A. Khan
Dr. Matin's book on Business in its Broader Perspective is a useful introduction of business for the students of Pakistani business. Dr. Matin discusses business environment of our country, always showing the critical role of business in the life, welfare and progress of the country. It is an achievement for Dr. Martin as it marks almost 50 years of continuous research and publications. In his book Dr. Matin has highlighted the contribution of business. It is a very commendable effort at a time where there is inadequacy in research and publications in the field of business.
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Economic management in Pakistan-1999-2002
Ishrat Husain
Pakistan has been faced with a serious financial crisis since May 1998. The new government, which assumed office in October 1999. embarked upon a serious programme of economic revival to get the country out of the debt trap. Policices pursued have begun to pay dividends and despite sereval shocks to the economy the country has been able to achieve stability. This book describes the process through which the economy was managed during 1999 - 2000.
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Continuity and change: socio-political and institutional dynamics in Pakistan
S. Akbar Zaidi
This collection contains papers by most of Pakistan's best known social scientists and academics, all of whom have written on an issue of their own choosing. There are four broad themes in this collection. There are three papers, one each by Hamza Alavi, Ayesha Jalal and Mubarak Ali, which look at history and historical developments in the context of Pakistan.
Three papers, one by Muhammad Waseem and two by S. Akbar Zaidi, examine contemporary issues which deal specifically with political development in the country. The last theme of this volume examines social and institutional dynamics and change in the country.
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Social Science in Pakistan in the 1990s
S. Akbar Zaidi
Social Sciences in Pakistan in the 1990s is the second collection of articles on the state of the social sciences published by the Council of Social Sciences (COSS), Pakistan. It follows the earlier collection published in 2001, which was a reprint of a book first published in 1989 by the Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad, entitled, The State of Social Sciences in Pakistan, edited by S H Hashmi, based on a conference which took place in May 1988. The current collections based on articles which examine the state of the social science in Pakistan, and have all been written or published since the Islamabad conference, up to around the middle of 2002. The purpose of bringing out this volume was to bring together collectively, under one cover, many of the papers which had been published on the social sciences since the end of the 1980s.
The collection of nine chapters includes three on the state of economics, one each three on history, mass communication, sociology and social studies/civics and two on a broad overview of the predicament of social studies in the country, more generally. There is also an introduction which highlights and summarizes the features of all the nine articles.
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The political economy of reforms: a case study of Pakistan
Ishrat Husain
The wholesale views of the relative success or failure of adjustment policies or its causes are challenged by a number of empirical studies. These studies demonstrate that there is considerable variation in the economic results of adjustment programmes, and this variation is explicable in terms of the context. quality, and sustained application of adjustment policies. This lecture focuses on the political economy aspects of the sustainability of economic reforms by introducing three basic hypotheses, and testing them with the Pakistani evidence. According to these hypotheses, variation in the result of economic policy reforms depends on: (i) a set of initial conditions which precipitate the decision to · undertake adjustment programmes; (ii) the country's sense of "ownership" of the reform process as indicated by the consensus among the social and political organisations and the presence of a technocratic care group in government devoted to reforms; and (iii) the presence of "capacity" in the country in terms of human capital and resilience of institutions.
In the case of Pakistan, the main motivation for entering into adjustment programmes has been the short term foreign liquidity infusion by international financial institutions and other donors. The ownership of reforms has been narrow and domestic capacity to implement them has eroded over time. Several lessons for future management of the reforms can be drawn from this analysis.
