College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

Selected papers presented to the 10th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance held in March 2015.

Crises and disasters, man-made or natural, prove to be an opportunity from which mankind can benefit and take lesson to learn to be conscious of Allah’s blessings and care for its rights. One of the lessons learnt is that capitalism is naturally driven by profit maximization actions that have adverse effects to our surroundings. This economic hegemony has led to environmental problems, which pose threats to humankind livelihood.

Studies in Islamic Ethics is a double-blind peer-reviewed book series that covers all aspects of ethics in the Islamic world, both historical and contemporary. The series welcomes volumes in English, French, and Arabic.

The series has published three books:

• Islamic Ethics and the Trusteeship Paradigm: Taha Abderrahmane’s Philosophy in Comparative Perspectives (2020) Volume: 3

Love comes and goes, it has increase, decrease and perfection, and the lover has states within it. In the beginning he may deny it, then he may submit to it. Then he may be disgraced and again take to the path of denial. These states change according to the moment and the individual; sometimes love increases and the lover denies it, sometimes love decreases and the one who possesses it denies the decrease. For love must open the castle of the lover to have a house for itself within, so that the lover becomes tame and surrenders.

Praise be to God who made the places obscured by the shadows of His magnifi cence, loci in which are disclosed the lights of His beauty, differentiating what is undifferentiated among the inherent properties (aḥkām); who made the forms of His Self-disclosures (tajalliyāt) places in which the suns of realities arise, completing what is universal among the blessings.