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Islamic Economics: A Survey of the Literature [PDF]
A central thesis of this paper is that social science is the study of human experience, and hence strongly conditioned by history. Modern Western political, economic and social structures have emerged as a consequence of the repudiation of religion, and ...
Zaman, Asad
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Based on ethnographic research at Rūm Orthodox Christian monasteries in Lebanon, the article studies scenes of Islam at the monastery as they intersect with anxious public debates on, and anthropological theorizations of, sectarianism and ‘Muslim–Christian’ relations in the Mashriq.
Aaron F. Eldridge
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.This article analyses the ways characteristics associated with the ‘Schedule Tribe’ (‘ST’) category in India shape situated acts of relating to others with either deference or assumed superiority. Ethnography shows how within an indigenous Adivasi community the traits that determine identification within the group generate feelings of entitlement and ...
Thomas Herzmark
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Are Islamic banks in Malaysia really ‘Islamic’? [PDF]
Understanding the underlying wisdom of the origin of Muamalat could clear some misconceptions towards Islamic banks in Malaysia. These misconceptions arise when we talk about transformation from conventional bank to Islamic bank.
Eddy Yusof, Ezry Fahmy
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Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.Can a good death occur for those who balance on the edges of grievability? In Bali, where death marks a transition within the cycles of reincarnation, a good death depends on the mortuary care performed by intimate others – care that may be foreclosed to those whose lives are shaped by stigma.
Sylvia Tidey
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History and theory of Islamic architecture
, 2019 Islamic architecture is a misunderstood subject. Quite often, as elementary -- and even trivial -- themes as defining Islamic architecture, the relationship between Muslim and Islamic architecture, and the prospect of existence of un-Islamic ...
Spahic, Omer
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The Big Picture: Religion and Global Comparative History
Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.This article considers what a ‘big picture’ approach to global religious history might look like, and in particular the implications of deploying the comparative method across much larger stretches of time and space than historians normally attend to. It will begin by reflecting on the epistemological moods that have hindered this project to date, the ...
Alan Strathern
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General overview on the study of Islamic ethics
, 2014 This chapter attempts to clarify the definition of ethics including its two categories of scientific and philosophical studies. It also explains how Islamic ethics and its scope have been defined by different Muslim scholars.
Abdul Rahim, Adibah
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The philosophy of decoration in Islamic architecture [PDF]
, 2009 This book discusses the philosophy of decoration in Islamic architecture. The book, however, is not written from a pure architecture perspective. The nature of its studies is a philosophical or conceptual rather than a empirical one.
Omer, Spahic
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PARADIGM SHIFT IN ISLAMIC STUDIES
, 2008 In the early 1990s, there was a heated debate among students ofIAIN (the State Institute for Islamic Studies) Sunan KalijagaYogyakarta about the future of Islamic studies, focusing on the possibilityof incorporating Thomas Kuhn’s paradigm to the ...
Editor Al-Jami'ah: Journal of Islamic Studies +1 more
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