this article presents muhammad arkoun's (1928-2010) key ideas on ethos, civil society, and secularism. following reflections on adab, arkoun's inspiration for rethinking islamic heritage (turāth), this contribution shows how arkoun reconsiders the impact of philosophy, both in theology as well as academic scholarship. the paper displays his hopes for generating an innovative intellect...

The article deals with the role of classical falsafa heritage in modern Islamic philosophical discourse. Based on interpretations texts philosophers, authors come to conclusion about relevance past for development directions and methodologies humanitarian knowledge. Conducting a comparative analysis doctrines Middle Ages substantiate commonality approaches conceptualization subjectivity, obliga...

Scientific research on heritage is many and varied , because it represents a collective historical cultural repository that expresses essentially identity. Among the areas of heritage, we distinguish urban architectural reflects true identity civilizational dimension, which today process preserving has become responsibility national duty stops specialists in all parts world. In light growing in...

Islamic banking is currently one of the fastest growing segments of the financial market industry, operating in over 75 countries through 300 institutions. While past literature has established the development of financial institutions as a determinant of economic growth, research on the correlation of the diffusion of Islamic banking with economic growth is limited. This study seeks to add to ...

The growing number of cultural heritage collections published as Linked Data has given rise to a vast source of collection objects to explore. To provide an experience which goes beyond traditional search, the links from objects to terms from structured vocabularies can be used to create new paths to explore. We present INVENiT, a semantic search system which leverages these paths for result di...

a r t i c l e i n f o The Dow Jones Islamic Market indices (DJIMI) are constructed by screening out stocks that are incompatible with Islam's prohibition of interest and certain lines of business. However, as a blunt instrument, the interest rate can affect discounted cash flows of any firm, even a firm with no financial leverage. This study reveals that the aggregate portfolio of Islamic stock...

There is burgeoning interest in the field of "Islamic" bioethics within public and professional circles, and both healthcare practitioners and academic scholars deploy their respective expertise in attempts to cohere a discipline of inquiry that addresses the needs of contemporary bioethics stakeholders while using resources from within the Islamic ethico-legal tradition. This manuscript serves...

The theme for this year's Penn Humanities forum is that of 'word and image,' a broad topic indeed. Even after deciding that my project would broadly focus on the interactions between French Orientalist and North African narrative and painting, I lacked a focus for the project that would marry it firmly to this theme. Finally, I arrived at what had always been the most obvious connection: the im...