Bioethics and health researchers often turn to Islamic jurisconsults (fuqahā’ ) and their verdicts (fatāwā) to understand how Islam and health intersect. Yet when using fatwā to promote health behavior change, researchers have often found less than ideal results. In this article we examine several health behavior change interventions that partnered with Muslim religious leaders aiming at promot...

M odern economic analysis, oriented toward understanding the workings of economies that make extensive use of markets, came into existence with three guiding questions, all central in Adam Smith’s (1776 [1937]) The Wealth of Nations. One question concerned order. Without any central authority guiding and commanding action, how is economic activity coordinated? The second question was the challe...

In Western societies, generalized prejudice and anti-Muslim sentiments can be major drivers of the rejection Muslim religious practices. However, people also reject such practices for other reasons, as concerns about civil liberties or secular nature state. With national samples German Dutch majority members ( N = 3,703), we used a multiple-acts-multiple-actors design to simultaneously examine ...

Meskhetian Turks are a Turkish-speaking ethnic group, which lived in Georgia until 1944. The origins of this group is matter academic dispute. Since their beginnings, they have been under the influence many cultures due to location on borders Christian and Muslim worlds. In 1944, were forced leave displaced dispersed throughout territory Soviet Union, mainly Central Asia. There currently around...

Foreign direct investment has been of great importance in economic growth and global economic integration over the last decades. South East Asia has been part of this development with rapidly increasing inflows of FDI. However, there are large variations over time and between countries in the region as regard to the policies towards FDI, and in actual inflows of FDI. This chapter aims at examin...