CIS Faculty

This book explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. It investigates how early and modern

In February 2011, Qatar Central Bank (QCB) issued a directive ordering conventional banks to wind up their Shariah-compliant banking branches, which took the banking industry in Qatar by storm. At the time, the Shariah-compliant asset allocation of conventional banks averaged about 10% of their total assets, while full-fledged Shariah-compliant banks in Qatar had assets of nearly one-fifth of the total banking assets in the country.

Corporate social responsibility has evolved dramatically over the past several years, and is now widely embraced by the corporate world not only as an ethical imperative but also as an economic necessity. Islamic finance, which espouses principles of equity and social development, has also found a more favorable and secular platform to convey and implement its objectives. While this presents many potential opportunities, there are still several challenges that require a sustainable and collaborative approach to find effective solutions.

Long and sustained periods of war, conflicts and neglect in several OIC (Organization of Islamic Cooperation) countries have rendered their economies and institutions dysfunctional. As a direct outcome, today OIC countries account for 61.5% of all displaced population in the world with more than 25 million displaced people. Therefore, there is a need for a paradigm shift in assumptions, approaches and narratives when addressing such challenges in OIC member states.

A confluence of events led to the creation of the author's seminar on gender and race in contemporary architecture, prompted by his participation in a campuswide workshop on teaching diversity at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

In thinking about space/power/knowledge intersections, we offer a rich and descriptive account of the urban mosque, which has far too long been neglected. Our account reveals descriptive language as a basis for aesthetic syncretism and the creation of an American

The scholarship on religious space in America from the 1940s through the 1960s exists at the intersection of several kinds of literature, including history, religious studies, and material culture (Price, 2013). Furthermore, because of the increased mobility of people and beliefs and an increasingly worldwide diaspora, the scholarship asks whether cultural and political boundaries—both material and figurative—have been manufactured or dissolved as research is carried out.

Over the last two decades or more, there has been an increasing attempt to understand the relationship between the modalities of everyday life through the complex cosmopolitan influence of Cairo’s urban history. As Ross King has suggested in Emancipating Space (1996), “There can be no emancipation without unmasking all the linkages of spatial meaning and the kinships between space, knowledge and power . . .