FOREWARD and CONTENTS

Abstract

By the grace of Allah, it is a great pleasure to introduce this issue of: The International Journal on Islamic Applications in Computer Science and Technology.

The success and the welcome of this Journal by researchers from many countries, gave us great encouragement for continuing issuing in the due time.

This Journal is aimed at publishing original research papers in the field of Islamic Applications in computer science and technology. This field is catching a momentum in the recent years. As a Journal interested in this field, it is the first International Journal of its specific field. As research is growing in this field, we hope that this Journal will be a platform for researchers working in the field to publish their research.

This issue contains two papers. The first one is entitled: Stylometric Comparison between the Quran and Hadith based on Successive Function Words: Could the Quran be written by the Prophet? In this work, successive function words are investigated in the Quran, Hadith and five other Arabic religious books, in order to see whether the corresponding styles are similar (i.e. Stylometric comparison between the different books). Results of this investigation show that the use of SFW is very discriminative between the Quran and Hadith, which implies that the Quran and Hadith come from two different Authors. Moreover, the discrimination is even noticeable between the Quran and several other books investigated in this work. This result suggests that the Quran Author style is beyond the traditional human religious styles that are usually employed in the Arabic literature (ancient or contemporary). Hence, the only explanation we have is: The Quran came from God (Allah).

The second paper is entitled: The role of cloud computing in the service of of Maqāṣid Al-sharīʻah in problem solving. Cloud computing is viewed as a general concept that includes Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) in the world of technology that shares the idea of relying on the Internet to meet the computing needs of users. Thus, the research objectives are: the definition of cloud computing, its types and Maqāṣid Al-sharīʻah, description of the role of cloud computing in the service of protection of Faith (Din), protection of lives (Nafs), protection of wealth (Mal), protection of intellect ('Aql) and protection of progeny (Nasl) to help solve problems in times of crisis.