Islam And The Prayer Economy
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Author | : Benjamin F. Soares |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780748623587 |
At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers an alternative perspective on Islam. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, Benjamin Soares explores Islam and Muslim practice in an important Islamic religious centre in West Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on ethnography, archival research, and written sources, Soares provides a richly detailed discussion of Sufism, Islamic reform, and other contemporary ways of being Muslim in Mali and offers an original analytical perspective for understanding changes in the practice of Islam more generally.
Author | : Soares Benjamin Soares |
Publisher | : Edinburgh University Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : Electronic books |
ISBN | : 1474472753 |
At a time when so-called fundamentalism has become the privileged analytical frame for understanding Muslim societies past and present, this study offers an alternative perspective on Islam. In an innovative combination of anthropology, history, and social theory, Benjamin Soares explores Islam and Muslim practice in an important Islamic religious centre in West Africa from the late nineteenth century to the present. Drawing on ethnography, archival research, and written sources, Soares provides a richly detailed discussion of Sufism, Islamic reform, and other contemporary ways of being Muslim in Mali and offers an original analytical perspective for understanding changes in the practice of Islam more generally.
Author | : Benjamin F. Soares |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
A close look at the changing terms of exchange between gifts and blessings
Author | : Daromir Rudnyckyj |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-08-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0801462304 |
In Europe and North America Muslims are often represented in conflict with modernity—but what could be more modern than motivational programs that represent Islamic practice as conducive to business success and personal growth? Daromir Rudnyckyj's innovative and surprising book challenges widespread assumptions about contemporary Islam by showing how moderate Muslims in Southeast Asia are reinterpreting Islam not to reject modernity but to create a "spiritual economy" consisting of practices conducive to globalization. Drawing on more than two years of research in Indonesia, most of which took place at state-owned Krakatau Steel, Rudnyckyj shows how self-styled "spiritual reformers" seek to enhance the Islamic piety of workers across Southeast Asia and beyond. Deploying vivid description and a keen ethnographic sensibility, Rudnyckyj depicts a program called Emotional and Spiritual Quotient (ESQ) training that reconfigures Islamic practice and history to make the religion compatible with principles for corporate success found in Euro-American management texts, self-help manuals, and life-coaching sessions. The prophet Muhammad is represented as a model for a corporate CEO and the five pillars of Islam as directives for self-discipline, personal responsibility, and achieving "win-win" solutions. Spiritual Economies reveals how capitalism and religion are converging in Indonesia and other parts of the developing and developed world. Rudnyckyj offers an alternative to the commonly held view that religious practice serves as a refuge from or means of resistance against modernization and neoliberalism. Moreover, his innovative approach charts new avenues for future research on globalization, religion, and the predicaments of modern life.
Author | : Ahmet T. Kuru |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 323 |
Release | : 2019-08 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1108419097 |
Analyzes Muslim countries' contemporary problems, particularly violence, authoritarianism, and underdevelopment, comparing their historical levels of development with Western Europe.
Author | : Ibrahim Abdul-Matin |
Publisher | : Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2013-01-21 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1605099465 |
A Muslim environmentalist explores the fascinating intersection of environmentalism and Islam. Muslims are compelled by their religion to praise the Creator and to care for their community. But what is not widely known is that there are deep and long-standing connections between Islamic teachings and environmentalism. In this groundbreaking book, Ibrahim Abdul-Matin draws on research, scripture, and interviews with Muslim Americans to trace Islam’s preoccupation with humankind’s collective role as stewards of the Earth. Abdul-Matin points out that the Prophet Muhammad declared “the Earth is a mosque.” Using the concept of Deen, which means “path” or “way” in Arabic, Abdul-Matin offers dozens of examples of how Muslims can follow, and already are following, a Green Deen in four areas: “waste, watts (energy), water, and food.”
Author | : M. Umer Chapra |
Publisher | : International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) |
Total Pages | : 91 |
Release | : 1992 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0860372170 |
What kind of economic policy package do Islamic teachings imply? This book seeks to answer this and other related questions.
Author | : International Monetary Fund |
Publisher | : International Monetary Fund |
Total Pages | : 58 |
Release | : 1989-09-06 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1451960980 |
The paper analyzes the bearing of Islamic teachings on the conduct of fiscal policy. It is shown that Islamic teachings do not prescribe any rigid system of public finance. The major emphasis is on the state’s responsibility to assure at least a basic minimum standard of living for all citizens. The paper deals with issues related to evolution of fiscal policies best suited to achieve this and other Islamic socio-economic objectives in the specific framework of Islamic teachings. The implications of such a system for growth, monetary stability, resource allocation, and pattern of income distribution are also examined.
Author | : Abul Khair Jalaluddin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 130 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Economics |
ISBN | : 9789679963595 |
Author | : Daromir Rudnyckyj |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-11-22 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 022655208X |
Recent economic crises have made the centrality of debt, and the instability it creates, increasingly apparent. This realization has led to cries for change—yet there is little popular awareness of possible alternatives. Beyond Debt describes efforts to create a transnational economy free of debt. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Malaysia, Daromir Rudnyckyj illustrates how the state, led by the central bank, seeks to make the country’s capital Kuala Lumpur “the New York of the Muslim world”—the central node of global financial activity conducted in accordance with Islam. Rudnyckyj shows how Islamic financial experts have undertaken ambitious experiments to create more stable economies and stronger social solidarities by facilitating risk- and profit-sharing, enhanced entrepreneurial skills, and more collaborative economic action. Building on scholarship that reveals the impact of financial devices on human activity, he illustrates how Islamic finance is deployed to fashion subjects who are at once more pious Muslims and more ambitious entrepreneurs. In so doing, Rudnyckyj shows how experts seek to create a new “geoeconomics”—a global Islamic alternative to the conventional financial network centered on New York, London, and Tokyo. A groundbreaking analysis of a timely subject, Beyond Debt tells the captivating story of efforts to re-center international finance in an emergent Islamic global city and, ultimately, to challenge the very foundations of conventional finance.