In this beautifully crafted book, Timur Kuran provides a remarkably rich analysis of how Islamic law impeded economic progress in the Middle East and North Africa. Kuran’s views are fresh and powerful, and they are subtle. He does not claim that Islamic law was generally bad for economic activity. He does not claim that prohibitions on interest denied credit to merchants or entrepreneurs. Nor d...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq placed the question of Islam and Muslim politics squarely in the American public’s mind. In bookshops and classrooms, and on radio and television talk shows, Americans were treated to crash courses on the history of Islam, Muslim attitudes toward democracy, the reasons (some) Muslim women ...

abstract: comparison of justice in islam and utilitarianism this article is to explain and compare justice in islam and utilitarianism. first, it is pointed to difinition and necessary and divisions of justice in islam: justice is putting of everything in its suit place. because of being absoulatly complete of god, his commands and prohibitions are justicely. knowledge of all human needs and th...

the conversion to islam and bay’at of the newly converted muslims are significant to draw the relationship between the prophet of islam and muslims. there are lots of records and researches which depict the different aspects of bay’at between men and the prophet. then, what is significant is to examine if the prophet also took the bay’at of women and, if yes, under which conditions? in fact, th...

The aim of this paper is to sketch a line of interpretation of certain political-philosophical discourses on 'Islam in Europe' through the interrelated concepts of appropriation and redemption. Muslim presence in Europe is generally perceived as 'problematic.' A specific vocabulary, including terms like 'liberal dilemma,' 'defense of freedom,' 'Muslim exceptionalism', and 'specification of acce...

2 Muslims are currently the largest religious minority in Western Europe. This presence of Islam in Europe is a direct consequence of the existence of pathways of immigration (that opened up in the early 1960s) leading from the Western States' former colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Following the official end of work-based immigration in 1974, the integration of such immigrant popul...

the main purpose of article is al-qaida political islam and its concepts and principles. typically the importance of following islamic concepts and principles on al-qaida political islam to production terrorism. some militant islamist forces have been implicated in terrorism.. al-qaida political islam in a strictly non-evangelical sense cannot be described as islamist. in addition relatians bet...

The present study aimed to examine theposition of "Jurist Islam" discourses and "Liberal Islam"in the "Final Review of the Islamic Republic of Iran Constitution" in1979. And consider the conflict between the above-mentioned constitutionaldiscourses to gain a better understanding of these discourses and the constitution.To this aim, should find the point of the deba...

all of religions free towards society in Kazakhstan. Considering that Islam is more widespread religion in the region, Islamic industry is developing sector of Economy. There are some new sectors of Halal (Islamic) industry, which have importance for state developing on the whole. One of the youngest sectors of Halal industry is Islamic tourism, which became an object of disputes and led to dil...