CIS Faculty

يعدّ هذا الكتاب من أمهات كتب التراث الإسلامي وإن كان لم يلق من الباحثين العرب أية عناية تذكر، وترك قابعا هنا وهناك في خزائن المخطوطات بالمكتبات المختلفة ، وذلك على الرغم من أهميته في إبراز جهود الصوفية في الرد على الفلاسفة وبيان تهافتهم في فلسفتهم ومحاولة إسقاط هذه الفلسفة ببيان عيوبها، والكشف عن وجوه قصورها وعجز الفلاسفة المسلمين أنفسهم عن الوصول إلى الحقيقة، رغم أنها هدف مشترك ينشده الفلسفي كما ينشده الصوفي.

The aim of this chapter is to compare Islamic Sharī’a law with international policies governing cultural heritage preservation, and to investigate current, related laws in Qatar as a case study for the Middle Eastern region. The author presents research carried out within the Materiality and Preservation in Islamic Contexts project, in which he examined governing models of cultural heritage preservation by reviewing Islamic classical literature and by analysing Qatar’s Law on Antiquities according to six criteria of policy efficiency described by Daniel Mazmanian and Paul Sabatier (1983).

The main article of this book addresses the Maqasid (Higher Objectives of Sharia) of Tamweel (finance) in connection with the individual, the community, the state, and the global economy. It attempts to answer critical questions including How to evaluate the progress made by Islamic finance so far (e.g. the Islamic banks, Islamic Development Bank, and the Dow Jones Islamic Market Indices). And to what extent has Islamic finance introduced an alternative paradigm?

Intellectual debates and sociopolitical changes in Arab societies have brought about new political outlooks and consciousness, and have resulted in profound political change and restructuring of state institutions. Reform efforts successfully introduced modern political institutions, but failed in effecting a broad and systematic transformation of political culture, as the latter continues to be guided by notions and practices rooted in the premodern models of authoritarian (“sultanic”) governance.

The money supply is considered a major factor in tampering with financial and economic stability. The international experience of liberal monetary systems has shown that the increase in money supply through credit creation plays the most serious role in disrupting financial and economic stability. That was particularly true in the most disruptive crises of 1929 and 2008.

While exploring the concept of built heritage preservation from an Islamic perspective, this study will dig out the jurisprudential principles to challenge the contemporary destruction of built heritage in

This study centers on the premise that entrepreneurship is an embedded process. Although “the entrepreneur” is inherently an “individual,” entrepreneurship can never be fully disembedded from the more general social settings within which any business venture is situated. An Islamic-based economic discursive framework should be cognizant of the different forms of sociality, spatiality, and community as well as the various norms, codes, and symbols that define society more generally. The work of Karl Polanyi on embeddedness is engaged and juxtaposed with

Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states have been engaging in diversification efforts, yet the types of efforts suggest that the primary interest is regime security. Regional foreign policy is complex; hence we propose a multi‐lens approach to analyze overlapping and complementary political, economic, and social forces.

Two of the key priorities of the Arab world in the coming years are to develop and deploy clean technologies (cleantech) needed to combat the adverse effects of climate change in the region; and to diversify domestic economies to become low carbon economies with greater prospects for green jobs. However, despite broad political discussions of these policy goals, several countries in the Middle East and North African (mena) region continue to lag in terms of the level and adequacy of entrepreneurial cleantech start-up activities.