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: The enthusiasm of the Muslim community in Indonesia for various fintech products, especially Peer-to-Peer Lending (Online Loans and Pay Later), remains substantial.
Ahmad Hujaj Nurrohim +2 more
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Recent Changes in the Texas Usury Statutes - Do They Affect Common Law Usury Claims? [PDF]
This comment examines the cure provision of the Texas usury statute and discusses its effect on a plaintiff\u27s recovery for common law usury. Part I discusses the historical background of usury laws and Texas usury statutes.
Beal, Cindy T.
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The reason behind prohibition of usury [PDF]
Usury is prohibited in Islam and other divine religions. However, the financial system which is common in today's world, especially in West, is founded on the basis of usury. In effect, it is the features present in usurious loans that seduce uncommitted
yahya Alavi
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Close to the time of Elizabeth’s expulsion of the Hanseatic merchants and the closing of the Steelyard (der Stahlhof) in the years 1597-98, two London plays engaged extensively with the business of trade, the merchant class, foreign merchants, and ...
Jonathan Baldo
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Civil law usury Abstract While discussing the issue of civil law usury, this thesis has three main goals in principle. The first one is exploring and describing usury from non-legal standpoints, the second one involves assessing usury from legal ...
Makovec, Jakub
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What were the stakes of the implementation of the tsedaqah in Mediterranean Europe during the Late Middle Ages? Although the sources are incomplete and scattered because of the loss and of the dispersal of the medieval Jewish communities’ archives, the ...
Claude Denjean +2 more
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ABSTRACT This article advances the understanding of employee performance by unraveling the relationship between high‐performance human resource management practices (HPHRMP) and employee performance. Data were obtained from 510 bank employees across 25 banks operating in Jordan. A sequential mediation model was tested using structural equation modeling
Adolfo Carballo‐Penela +3 more
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Educational Method of the Noble Qur’an in Changing People’s Behavior in the Age of Revelation through the Verses on Usury (Riba) Prohibition from Sunni and Shi’ite Perspective [PDF]
The influence of the Qur’anonculture in the age of revelation and changing people’s behavior back then has been one of the important and challenging issues among commentators and Qur’anic scholars.
Gholamhosein A’rabi +2 more
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PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
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“Talk of contracts”: Gift-giving vs. Reciprocity in James Joyce’s “A Mother”
This essay measures the extent to which gift-giving fails in an economy of reciprocity. Reading James Joyce’s story “A Mother” in terms of Derrida’s notion of the gift as “absolute loss,” I consider the implications of an economy of loss for Joyce’s ...
Raghinaru Camelia
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