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Islamic studies. Doctoral. advisor. Kenneth Arrow. Contributions. Preference falsification. Timur Kuran is a Turkish-American economist and political scientist, Professor of Economics and Political Science, and Gorter Family Professor of Islamic Studies at Duke University. His work spans economics, political science, history, and law.
The postage stamps and postal history of Palestine emerges from its geographic location as a crossroads amidst the empires of the ancient Near East, the Levant and the Middle East. Postal services in the region were first established in the Bronze Age , during the rule of Sargon of Akkad , and successive empires have established and operated a ...
History of Islamic economics. Between the 9th and 14th centuries, the Muslim world developed many advanced economic concepts, techniques and usages. These ranged from areas of production, investment, finance, economic development, taxation, property use such as Hawala: an early informal value transfer system, Islamic trusts, known as waqf ...
Muslims, Christians, and the Challenge of Interfaith Dialogue. Mission to America: Five Islamic Sectarian Communities in North America. Jane Idleman Smith is an American scholar of Islam and former professor of Comparative Religion at Harvard University. [1] She is currently Professor Emerita of Islamic studies at Hartford Seminary.
Islam and modernity is a topic of discussion in contemporary sociology of religion. The history of Islam chronicles different interpretations and approaches. Modernity is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon rather than a unified and coherent one. It has historically had different schools of thought moving in many directions.
Peter Mandaville describes a evolution away from the "political Islam of the sort represented by the Muslim Brotherhood and the broader Ikhwani tradition" which failed to gain mass public support and "found it progressively more difficult to offer up distinctively 'Islamic' solutions to basic problems of governance and economy", and towards "a ...
Abdul Azim Islahi (born 1950) is a professor at the Islamic Economics Institute, [1] Jeddah. He has spent more than 30 years in research, teaching and expanding the frontiers of the discipline of Islamic economics, [2] King Abdulaziz University. He obtained his PhD from the Aligarh Muslim University, [3] India in 1981.
Islamization of knowledge. v. t. e. Islamic economics ( Arabic: الاقتصاد الإسلامي) refers to the knowledge of economics or economic activities and processes in terms of Islamic principles and teachings. [1] Islam has a set of special moral norms and values about individual and social economic behavior.