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Investigating Awqaf Management, Accounting and Investment Practices in Malaysia: The Case of a State Religious Institution [PDF]
Global Journal Al-Thaqafah, 2017 Social economy is gaining interest as an alternative to capitalist economy. As compared to its capitalist counterpart, social based economy is ethically and morally guided. This arguably possesses close alignment to the religious based economy among
Hisham Yaacob, Hairul Suhaimi Nahar
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Turkey’s accession to the European Union: debating the most difficult enlargement ever [PDF]
, 2006 This study focuses on the intricacies of Turkey’s prospective membership in the European Union. It begins with a chronology of EU-Turkey relations and an account of the debate on the future of the European Union, which relates to Turkey’s prospective E.U.
Grigoriadis, Ioannis
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Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Between 2018 and 2021, the Identification and Documentation of Immovable Heritage Assets (IDIHA) Project recorded over 19,000 rock art panels in the AlUla (al‐‘Ulā) region of north‐western Saudi Arabia. This study presents a chronological assessment of the corpus, drawing on superimpositions, datable motifs, inscriptions, and varnish formation,
Maria Guagnin +3 more
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Entangled Religions - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Religious Contact and Transfer, 2019 The article examines Muslim pilgrimages to Christian places of worship in Istanbul after the 1950s. It aims to answer whether and how the Ottoman heritage of cultural diversity fits or does not fit with the pattern of the nation-state.
Méropi Anastassiadou-Dumont
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The nation‐state, non‐Western empires, and the politics of cultural difference
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract While empires have been central to political theory, they almost always refer to Western forms of imperialism and colonialism to which non‐Western societies are subject. But precolonial empires have ruled much of the world for much of known history. Building on recent International Relations (IR) scholarship, this article reconstructs an ideal
Loubna El Amine
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The Shift of Islamic Shari’a in Economy: Banks, Foreign Investment and the Ottoman Collapse
NuraniAt the height of the Ottoman Empire's glory, there was no need for a usury system, as it was prohibited by Islamic law. This Empire stands on an independent economy in line with Islamic law. Military agitation was everywhere; debt after debt appeared and
Desmadi Saharuddin +4 more
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The Empire is dead, long live the Empire! Long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy [PDF]
, 2011 Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens’ trust in local public services.
Becker, Sascha O. +3 more
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Exporting the Holy Land: artisans and merchant migrants in Ottoman-era Bethlehem [PDF]
, 2013 This article explores an aspect of Arab migration in the nineteenth century that is often retold in popular memory but rarely discussed in academic work: that of Bethlehem merchants and the “Holy Land” wares they sold.
Norris, Jacob
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Bread and Empire: The Workings of Grain Provisioning in Istanbul During the Eighteenth Century [PDF]
Provisioning of the Imperial capital Istanbul had been one of the major concerns of the Ottoman rulers from the classical age to the dawn of the modern era.
Onur Yildirim
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Colonial wars and trade restrictions: Fighting for exclusive trading rights
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract This paper develops a model of colonial wars and trade restrictions, in which two metropolises compete for control over a colony's trade policy. In equilibrium, the metropolis that gains control can improve its terms of trade by restricting its rival's access to colonial trade.
Ivan G. Lopez Cruz, Gustavo Torrens
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