This multidisciplinary book covers Islamic economic, financial, legal, and socio-political systems, insurance (takaful), and commercial jurisprudence. It examines the dichotomies and similarities between Islamic and conventional financial systems and suggests future roles and governance of Islamic financial institutions.
By providing migration experiences of Arabs to various nation-states, this volume examines socio-historical factors that allowed Arab communities to settle in several places, including Latin America, Singapore, the United States, Europe and Africa. It bridges several fields to provide context that is useful in today's globalized world.
The book shows how racialization operates in the French colorblind context by highlighting the resistance to officially acknowledge the existence of racial discriminations and the ongoing effectiveness of racialising categories in the definition of what is to be French.
In this book, Martin Lundsteen investigates the often overlooked political-economic aspects of mosque conflicts. Focusing on the mosque project in Barcelona, Lundsteen takes a socio-spatial approach, investigating both the local and global processes of contemporary capitalism.
Classical Tazhib from Ottoman to Contemporary Times
Islamic Art of Illumination presents an amazing mixture of classical Turkish illumination patterns and their contemporary interpretations. It illustrates how illumination, also known as the art of tezhip, was applied to various articles during the Ottoman period, including pictures, royal edicts and insignia, tiles, chests, gun holsters, shields, ......
A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty
The Malay Nobat: A History of Power, Acculturation, and Sovereignty explores the history and meaning of the nobat, its spread throughout the Muslim empire, and its emergence as a symbol of power and sovereignty, ultimately showing how existing nobat ensembles in Malaysia and Brunei are the last living legacy of the Mulism world.
As Europe goes astray, deeply conflicted about where it is both within and with the world, it does not know what it wants to know about, or do, with the racial subject. It is into this context of anxiety, and the Muslim subject as its most intense source, that I write Islamophobia. Islamophobia represents not merely a species of the racism ......
This illuminating guide presents an innovative and contemporary approach to the Qur'an and its philosophy in the Islamic tradition. From the religious tome's purpose and objectives to its rhetoric and eloquence, various aspects of the Qur'an are examined while new insights are provided on the existence and oneness of God, prophethood, and bodily ......
