من تأثيرات العلامة إقبال في نجيب الكيلاني من خلال كتابه إقبال الشاعر الثائر

Najeeb Al-Kailani is a famous Egyptian Islamic writer. He was immensely impressed by Iqbal’s philosophy. He was absorbed in the study of Islamic literature in the early days of his life and dared to write many articles in various magazines, touching various aspects of Iqbal’s poetry. Al-Kailani then by maintaining his interest in Iqbal’s poetry, was compelled to write the book entitled إقبال الشاعر الثائر"”, (Iqbal, the Revolutionary poet). He was awarded with prize by ministry of education and training, and in 1977 President of Pakistan General Muhammad Ziaul haq awarded him gold medal. This article highlighted the impact of Allama Muhammad Iqbal in al-Kailani’ book and analyzed its text by refereeing it to the original poetry of Allama Muhammad Iqbal. This article concluded that Kailani’s book is finest and comprehensive book, which demonstrated the life and philosophy of Allama Muhammad Iqbal.

Corporate Governance, Firm Value and Financial Performance: An Empirical Study on Manufacturing Companies Listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange

This study aimed to contribute to the existing literature in the field by determining a combined influence of corporate governance measures on both financial performance and firm value in the context of Pakistan. The proxies used for corporate governance measures (independent variables) were as follows: presence of executive, non-executive and independent directors; board size; presence of audit committee and presence of human resource and remuneration committee. On the other hand, the proxies for firm performance and firm value (dependent variables) were as follows respectively: ROA, ROE, MVA and EVA. A sample of 125 manufacturing firms listed on Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) was selected based on their market capitalization and availability of data. Data was obtained for the period 2011-2017 from audited financial reports of selected firms published on PSX and relevant companies? websites. Multiple regression analysis was performed to obtain the results. The regression results revealed that the EPS is positively related with governance measures whereas ROE is positively related with all other governance measures except audit committee and board size. This study supports the fact that EVA can be a dependable measure in terms of value maximization goal. Firms can escalate this figure by employing the CCG mechanism.Moreover, this study developed a strong association among the CCG variables and MVA as per the findings.