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11. Interest in Islamic Economics

    Understanding Riba

    By Abdulkader Thomas

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    With Islamic banking gradually becoming a more influential factor in the West, an analysis of the concept of riba – a definition of which is not given in the Qur’an – is long overdue. This text presents readers with various interpretations of this Islamic economic concept – generally perceived as ‘...

    Published June 22nd 2010 by Routledge
12. Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations

    Modern Egyptian Thinkers on al-damir

    By Oddbjørn Leirvik

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    Human Conscience and Muslim-Christian Relations puts forward a discussion of how the notion of conscience may unite Muslim and Christians across religious divides, as well as examining the relation between selfhood and otherness in interfaith dialogue. The author explores how the notion...

    Published June 22nd 2010 by Routledge
13. The Regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814

    Army and Government of a North-African Eyâlet at the End of the Eighteenth Century

    By Asma Moalla

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    This study of the Tunisian army and government in the time of the pasha-bey Hammûda the Husaynid (1777--1814) stresses the deeply Ottoman character of these institutions and the political and administrative impact of the jurisdictional authority of the Ottoman Porte on the province in general. This...

    Published May 31st 2010 by Routledge
14. Muslim Diaspora

    Gender, Culture and Identity

    Edited by Haideh Moghissi

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    Muslim Diaspora identifies those aspects of migratory experience that shatter or reinforce a group’s attachment to its homeland and affect its readiness to adapt to a new country. The contributors to this collection examine many dimensions of life in the Diaspora and demonstrate that identity is...

    Published June 7th 2009 by Routledge
15. The Alevis in Turkey

    The Emergence of a Secular Islamic Tradition

    By David Shankland

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    This is the only volume dedicated to the Alevis available in English and based on sustained fieldwork in Turkey. The Alevis now have an increasingly high profile for those interested in the diverse cultures of contemporary Turkey, and in the role of Islam in the modern world. As a heterodox Islamic...

    Published July 26th 2007 by Routledge
16. The New Politics of Islam

    Pan-Islamic Foreign Policy in a World of States

    By Naveed Shahzad Sheikh, Naveed S. Sheikh

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    This is a timely study of the international relations of Islamic states, dealing both with the evolving theory of pan-Islamism from classical to post-caliphal times and the foreign-policy practice of contemporary states, especially Saudi Arabia, Iran and Pakistan, from the colonial period to the...

    Published May 15th 2007 by Routledge
17. Medieval Islamic Economic Thought

    Filling the Great Gap in European Economics

    By S.M. Ghazanfar

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    This book is a collection of papers on the origins of economic thought discovered in the writings of some prominent Islamic scholars, during the five centuries prior to the Latin Scholastics, who include St. Thomas Aquinas....

    Published May 15th 2007 by Routledge
18. The Small Players of the Great Game

    The Settlement of Iran's Eastern Borderlands and the Creation of Afghanistan

    By Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    This book deals with the 19th century Anglo-Russian Great Game played out on the territorial chessboard of eastern and north-eastern parts of the waning Persian empire. The Great Game itself has been written about extensively, but never from a Persian angle and from the point of view of the local...

    Published May 15th 2007 by Routledge
19. The West and Islam

    Western Liberal Democracy versus the System of Shura

    By Mishal Fahm al-Sulami

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    This book analyzes the relationship between Western and Islamic political ideas and focuses on the similarities and differences between Western liberal democracy and shura - often seen as the Islamic counterpart to Western democracy....

    Published May 15th 2007 by Routledge
20. Islamic Insurance

    A Modern Approach to Islamic Banking

    By Aly Khorshid

    Series: Islamic Studies Series

    Some Muslims believe insurance is unnecessary, as society should help its victims. Muslims can no longer ignore the fact that they live, trade and communicate with open global systems, and they can no longer ignore the need for banking and insurance. Aly Khorshid demonstrates how initial clerical...

    Published February 11th 2004 by Routledge