This paper explores some of the issues that arise in the regulation of Islamic capital market products and services. As many of the products are distributed to retail clients by Islamic banks and through the Islamic windows of conventional banks, it is also pertinent to deal with the regulation of these institutions, not least because of the distinctive liability and asset structures of Islamic...

adhan (prayer call) as one of the cultural characteristics of islam, contains a wide range of cultural and social elements which necessitates the study of adhan as an occupation in muslim's everyday life besides the considering it's origination and developments in islamic history. along with a brief review of historical background of adhan in early islam, in the present survey the cul...

today’s western accuse islam and muslims to violence and radicalism to frighten people of islam. in the interim however radical performance some of groups that know themselves muslim, it has not ineffective for bad picture of mohammads religion, but for two reasons this subject not related to islamic current: first, majority of muslims and islamic religions don’t confirm these groups and hate t...

The article has a history of religions approach, and analyzes the “counter-narrative” Hizb ut-Tahrir, which is global political Islamist group aims to establish universal caliphate. It “vocal radical” radical group, rejecting use violence. against democracy, secularization liberal values, promotes return “true Islam”, obliges Muslims caliphate, ruled by divine will. analysis ideology will conte...

The word spirit with a small "s", has many meanings. It may mean 1) one of the elements in man which is considered as separable from the flesh and animating the body; or, 2)a person, from the moral, emotional or-intellectual point of view; or, 3) a person's disposition, permanent or temporary mental attitude, or, predominance of the spirit over the flesh especially as manifested in courage, ene...

One of the central claims of Norenzayan et al.'s article is that supernatural monitoring and intergroup competition have facilitated the rise of large-scale prosocial religions. Although the authors outline in detail how social instincts that govern supernatural monitoring are honed by cultural evolution and have given rise to Big Gods, they do not provide a clear explanation for the success of...

prophets’ hadiths are such hadiths narrated in islamic traditional books which narrate some words of divine prophets or ancient celestial books. those hadiths are scattered on the one hand and on a variety of subjects on the other. gathering and classification of those hadiths bear fruitful results. there are 1053 hadiths narrated from 34 prophets in traditional books of them 60% deal with fund...

Introduction There is a sense in which all intellectual work on religion has a reifying effect. Scholars in the humanities and social sciences necessarily construct religions as particular kinds of object. That is, they take some human emotions, ideas, artefacts and activities and frame them as things called „religions‟. Accounts of these religions provide the basis for inferring something call...