Introducing an Unexplored South Asian Treatise on I‘jāz Al-Qur’an

The present paper explores and introduces a manuscript on i‘jaz al-Qur’ān (inimitability of the Qur’ān) named Nūr al- Īqān bi i‘jaz al-Qur’ān written by a profound South Asian Sindhi Scholar, Maulana Muhammad Ismā‘īl al-Ūdvī. The field of i‘jaz al-Qur’ān has been and is the field of interest of many Muslim as well as non-Muslim theologians and scholars. Many Muslim scholars of the Middle East and the West have written books and research papers from third/ninth Century up to present times. The main and significant reason for this is that the doctrine of i‘jaz al- Qur’ān proves the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him. This paper argues that Shaikh al-Ūdvī is the first South Asian Sindhi Muslim Scholar, who wrote a separate treatise in Arabic on the doctrine of i‘jaz al-Qur’ān, which is not introduced properly in academic circles of the day. In this treatise, al-Ūdvī has advanced some new and original arguments to support the doctrine and the prophecy of Prophet Muhammad peace be upon him.

Determinants of Customers Buying Intention for Counterfeit Products : Case Study of Computer Market

This research study aims to investigate the determinants of customers' buying intention towards counterfeit product like Tablet PC in PC industry by focusing on the effects of attitude and personality towards the buying intention for counterfeit products. Personality factor is conceptualized to have five dimensions namely Novelty Seeking, Status Consumption, Integrity, Pricing and Perceived Risk. A survey on 200 customers of Tablet PC was conducted in Rex City, a computer market, Faisalabad, Pakistan. Results revealed that Novelty Seeking, Status Consumption and Integrity were insignificant variables and had no influence on attitude toward counterfeit Products. Perceived risk also had no impact on customers buying intentions towards counterfeit products. While Customers' buying intention toward counterfeit was positively and significantly influenced by Attitude towards counterfeit product and attitude towards counterfeit was influenced by Pricing. Further investigation showed that attitude towards counterfeit product fully mediate the relationship between Pricing and customers' buying intention toward counterfeit products. This means, only pricing had favorable buying attitude towards counterfeit. Since the current study shows that only Price sensitive customers would buy counterfeit products, thus this finding is beneficial to genuine manufacturer in producing branded products at low and affordable price that are difficult to be counterfeited.