The paper serves as background material for the review of debated issues and standpoints in the theory and application of Islamic economics, IE; and for discussion of fruitful research avenues in application of IE to modern economies. The focus is on six areas: (1) theory: links between IE and mainstream economics; while topics (2) to (6) treat applications of the given directives in Islamic ec...

The political presence of Muslims in al-Andalus had remained from Tariq bin Ziyad’s conquest Visigothic Hispania 711, untill the fall Ghirnata 1492. Despite all struggles, rebellions, occupations and wars, history means more than history. Because at this period Muslims’ medieval Iberia, became center “convivencia”, that “the art living together differences”. This convivencia refers to people wi...

Imam Sadiq is one of the scientific, jurisprudential, and moral pioneers our time an outstanding personality Islamic world humanity. He established a large scientific center in Masjid al-Nabi located Madinah Munuwrah, which had status first university world, educated up to four thousand students various branches religious intellectual sciences time, valuable contribution flourishing civilizatio...

Bangladesh is a moderate Islamic country. There are six full pledged Islamic banks providing services to wide range of customers. This study is designed to examine the impact of demographic disparities on the bank selection criteria applied by diversified customers of domestic Islamic banks in Bangladesh. We have run regression analysis after controlling for four demographic groupings such as G...

This paper presents a case series with preliminary data regarding the neurophysiological effects of specific prayer practices associated with the Islamic religion. Such practices, like other prayer practices, are likely associated with several coordinated cognitive activities and a complex pattern of brain physiology. However, there may also be changes specific to the goals of Islamic prayer wh...

This paper aims to examine e-business from Islamic perspectives. Among topics to be addressed in this paper, are e-business concepts, the legality of e-business from an Islamic point of view, prospects and challenges of Islamic e-business in a Malaysia context. This study introduces an Islamic e-business concept in addition to some interesting issues that can be found in this paper. In Islam, e...

Under this title I organized, on March 26 and 29, 2010, a workshop that discussed the place of Islamic law in the national codes of states with predominantly Muslim populations in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. What place do their codes assign to Islamic law? As none of the states concerned—with the exception of Turkey—declares itself to be a secular state, they can all claim that the law ...

Dini, sorun olmaktan çıkarıp insan hayatına anlam kazandırmak ve sorunlara çözüm üretmek için merhum Prof. Dr. Hasan Onat onlarca makale yazmış nihayetinde “İslam Ortak Paydası” adıyla kavramsallaştırmış olduğu İslam’ın kurucu temel ilkelerinde birleşilmesini önermiştir. O, kavramıyla özelde ülkemiz genelde ise İslam dünyasının barış içerisinde birlikte yaşamalarının imkân yollarını tahlil edip...

At least from the nineteenth century onward, certain observers have viewed Islam as a religion that discourages entrepreneurship by fostering fatalism, conform-ism, and conservatism. 1 Leading Muslim reformers of the nineteenth century, including Jamal al-Din al-Afghani (1839–97), believed that this view confuses a perverted form of Islam, which counsels passive resignation to events, with auth...

This article starts with a critical review of the current literature on the Islamic radicalization and Uighur insurgency in Xinjiang, pointing out that existing literature focuses too narrowly on certain aspects of the Uighur insurgency, and is insufficient to explain the causal mechanism of the insurgency and Islamic radicalization. Built upon historical evidence, this article uses sociologica...