This article explains the level of economic freedom in Muslim countries through the theory of institutional path dependency. Islamic countries are generally not free and they have a poor record regarding property rights. To explain these realities we use the institutional history of Muslim countries. We define three steps: the Arab and Ottoman Empires when Islamic law was of great importance, E...

Several previous studies have looked at the treatment of Islam and Muslim culture in western curricula. However in Germany, especially in Bavaria where Muslim immigration has been growing since the 1990s, no recent research has covered this theme. As a first step, an exploratory study of Islamic themes in the curricula of Bavarian secondary schools was undertaken. This article describes the res...

a book written in recent years on the history of islam is the invaluable work by dr. gholamhosein zargarinezhad published by the samt publishing house in 687 pages in 1378 a.h. many reviews have come out on this work so far that have been mostly detail - oriented formal critiques. here in this note, the writer has tried to closely study the methodology and other historiographical peculiarities ...

soryani school is one of the most important medical schools dating back from the ancient world to the islamic period. since its establishment (contemporary with alexander) up to the empowerment of ashkanid and sasanid dynasties, and since arabs attacked the foundation of abbasid dynasty (a period of about 1000 years), the soryani school which was very active in mesopotamia and northern syria, m...

This research looks at the notion of inter-religious conversation and how it relates to Islam Hinduism. It works with Qur'an Sunnah on textual study historical interpretation. The treatment non-Muslims by early Muslim rulers, particularly second caliph Islam, "Umar," is examined in order better understand nature interfaith discourse Islam. There's overwhelming evidence that Hinduism play a dist...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to draw an exact and accurate picture of classification problems being faced by libraries having a reasonable amount of collections on Islam. Different classification systems have been developed during the last two centuries to organize library materials. Where these systems provided libraries with better solution for organization of materials, the systems...

This paper seeks to delineate the process that culminated into the proliferation of Deobandi version of Islam in the Punjab that eventually led to the formulation of terrorist outfits by the closing years of twentieth century. Gradual creeping of Deobandi influence was not in consonance with the composite cultural ethos that was very intrinsic to the Punjab. In the colonial Punjab and even befo...