Browsing by Author "Sobhani, Farid A."

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Essence of, Approaches to and Transformation Process in Higher Education for Sustainable Development: A Critical Review
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2012-12) Sobhani, Farid A.; Amran, Azlan
The study aims at reviewing the essence of sustainable education, highlighting its different approaches and analyzing transformation process of higher education for sustainable development (HESD). Since there is lack of sustainability research in the developing countries, the study addresses the issues of higher education towards sustainability from the perspective of a developing nation. This research is qualitative and descriptive in nature. It considered extensive literature survey to meet the research objectives. The study found that the issue of higher education for sustainable development got global attention especially in the Western society. In Mexico, many public universities introduced sustainability education as core course at the graduate and post-graduate level. Among the Asian nations, Malaysia has set an example taking initiative to transform higher education for a sustainable society. University Sains Malaysia (USM) got APEX status incorporating that dimension in the program. Bangladesh, the local context of the study, is lagging far behind in attempting to sustainable education. Both public and private universities are facing many challenges towards that dimension, which are highlighted in this study.
Factors behind Begging and Search for Alternatives: A Study on Female Street Beggars in Chittagong City
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong Bangladesh, 2015-12) Sobhani, Farid A.; Murtaz, Maleha
The study aims at knowing the feelings of female street beggars concerning begging, identifying the causes of begging and getting ideas from them to get rid of begging. It was an exploratory study in nature based on opinion survey of the female street beggars. Chittagong City area was purposively selected for this study. A semi-structured questionnaire was designed to interview the beggars. A total of 62 female street beggars were randomly interviewed from July to October 2014. The study revealed that about 87% beggars interviewed feel ashamed of begging and saw begging as an immoral conduct. The factors that induced them in begging are: polygamy, dishonest husband, looking after children, family disintegration, illiteracy, illness, lack of jobs, poor salary for works, natural disaster and survival. Some of them (13%) considered begging as a profession like other works. Most of them (92%) desired to get rid of begging having suitable alternatives. The alternative activities they mentioned include job, training, family integration, Government shelter, social/community support, money and business. Getting support fund, they desired to start scarp business, fisheries, poultry farms, cloth business, vegetable business and selling pithapuli (local pizza) in the winter seasons and so on. The study generated thought provoking ideas for Government bodies, civil societies, donor agencies and social science researchers to move forward for the eradication of extreme poverty and street begging from a developing country like Bangladesh.
Management of Sadaqah through social enterprises: A study on Anjuman Mufidul Islam Bangladesh
(CRP, International Islamic University Chittagong, Bangladesh, 2017-12) Kabir, Mohammad Rokibul; Sobhani, Farid A.; Kausar, Aflatunal
Islam prefers a society where justice and equity is maintained and any business upholding the social justice and equity by ensuring social and environmental sustainability may be considered as a business in accordance with Islamic principles. In fact, social enterprises are such business concerns in modern context. Instead of scatter contribution of Sadaqah, its efficient use through the establishment of social enterprises may help ensuring social justice and uphold the prime purpose of Islamic financial systems. Anjuman Mufidul Islam, Bangladesh is one of such enterprises and the study is an endeavor to evaluate the management of Sadaqah by this enterprise. The research also attempts to propose a model for efficient management of Sadaqah through social enterprises. The secondary sources of data collected from the annual report of Anjuman Mufidul Islam, Bangladesh have been used to evaluate how well it is managing Sadaqah and a model for efficient use of Sadaqah has been proposed based on the existing models of social enterprises.