Islamic Finance/ Public Policy etc

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.

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

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.

This article explores the politics of a family cohesion a Muslim polity simultaneously committed to the application of Islamic law, the preservation of cultural identity, and socio-economic modernization.

This volume offers a series of studies, written by a leading scholar in the field, on the changing relations between secular modernity,

The majority of Muslim countries, classified as low or middle-income groups, suffer from poverty and face severe challenges in economic development.

The relation between Muslims and Hindus has a very long history that can be traced back to the very first century of