ISBN:
9789814508445
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (321 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.48/21767
Keywords:
Finance ; Religious aspects ; Islam
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Globalization ; Political aspects
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Globalization
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Islamic modernism
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Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Key Features:Describes Muslims' participation in the mainstream of modern life, highlighting their contributions to global consciousness, capitalism, democracy, and diplomacyIntegrates multidisciplinary studies of religion, politics, economics, law, and international relations in clear language accessable to general audiencesProvides historical and geographic perspective on long-term trends throughout Asia and Africa, allowing readers to look beyond the crisis-filled headlines of the day.
Abstract:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Tables -- List of Figures -- List of Maps -- 1. Introduction: Islamic Globalization -- Pilgrimage and Religious Travel -- Capitalism and Islamic Finance -- Democracy and Islamic Modernism -- Diplomacy and Great Power Politics -- I: Pilgrimage and Religious Travel -- 2. A Pilgrim's Eye View of the Hajj -- The Triumph of Experience over Ritual -- Dethroning Arabian Pretensions -- Bringing the Hajj Home -- 3. The Contemporary Hajj -- Characteristics -- Symbols and Meanings -- Recent Political History -- The Hajj and Islamic Law -- 4. The Hajj and Human Migration -- Social Revolution -- Global Community -- Poetic Imagination -- 5. Women's Participation in the Hajj -- 6. Religious Travel in Islam -- II. Capitalism and Islamic Finance -- 7. Capitalism and Islam -- Islam as an Obstacle to Capitalism -- Islam as a Variety of Capitalism -- Islam as an Alternative to Capitalism -- 8. The Battle for the Soul of Islamic Finance-If It Has One -- Moving to the Middle -- Good Things Come in Small Packages -- The Ethical Edge -- Working Together -- The Permanent Revolution in Islamic Finance -- 9. The Revolution in Islamic Finance -- Integration with the Global Financial Order -- Coordinating with Islamic International Organizations -- Penetrating Mass Markets -- Islamic Finance and the Democratization of Religious Thought -- 10. Islamic Finance and the International System: Integration without Colonialism -- The Kozlowski-Bin Laden Effect: From the Washington Consensus to Basel II and SOX -- Business Is Business and a Dollar Isn't What It Used To Be -- Will Westerners Take Over Islamic Finance? -- The 'Ulama and the Accounting Firms: Probity Versus Sorcery -- When Is There Too Much Convergence and Harmonization? -- International Regimes and Transnational Civil Societies -- III. Democracy and Islamic Modernism.
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