ABSTRACT

Abstract

Research is an effort to search for factual way of solving a problem, mostly measured through level of productivity, an indicator that assess the efficiency of any university system. There can be different methods to evaluate good researches. It could be measured in terms of the number of papers published, patents that are filed with the authorities, inventions commercialized by industry, completed projects, quality of graduating students, quality of postdoctoral candidates supervised and other indices. In most Universities researchers have no defined set of rules to measure their efforts of problem solving in their respective societies. This paper subscribed to qualitative research methodology tools to generate data through content analysis of secondary data, reviewed from relevant literature sources. Lecturers and students are the pillars of any university the world over. The Islamic ethics of Adl, Sabr and Ihsan are supposed to be the guiding principles of the way we teach, learn and research into issues that will be beneficial to humanity. For lecturers and students to be motivated in doing what is expected of them in academic productivity, there has to be avenues for building a robust culture of meaningful researches for academic productivity within the framework of Islam. The paper concluded by recommending the integration of Islamic ethics of researching in Islamic university system, in order to boost knowledge creation and promoting problem solving researches for humanity.

 Keywords: Research Students; Lecturers; Ethics; Productivity; Adl; Sabr; Ihsan.