Muslim Piety As Economy

Author : Johan Fischer,Jérémy Jammes
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000650945

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Muslim Piety as Economy by Johan Fischer,Jérémy Jammes Pdf

The first volume to explore Muslim piety as a form of economy, this book examines specific forms of production, trade, regulation, consumption, entrepreneurship and science that condition – and are themselves conditioned by – Islamic values, logics and politics. With a focus on Southeast Asia as a site of significant and diverse integration of Islam and the economy – as well as the incompatibilities that can occur between the two – it reveals the production of a Muslim piety as an economy in its own right. Interdisciplinary in nature and based on in-depth empirical studies, the book considers issues such as the Qur’anic prohibition of corruption and anti-corruption reforms; the emergence of the Islamic economy under colonialism; ‘halal’ or ‘lawful’ production, trade, regulation and consumption; modesty in Islamic fashion marketing communications; and financialisation, consumerism and housing. As such, it will appeal to scholars of sociology, anthropology and religious studies with interests in Islam and Southeast Asia.

Author : Sarah A. Tobin
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781501704185

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Everyday Piety by Sarah A. Tobin Pdf

Working and living as an authentic Muslim—comporting oneself in an Islamically appropriate way—in the global economy can be very challenging. How do middle-class Muslims living in the Middle East navigate contemporary economic demands in a distinctly Islamic way? What are the impacts of these efforts on their Islamic piety? To what authority does one turn when questions arise? What happens when the answers vary and there is little or no consensus? To answer these questions, Everyday Piety examines the intersection of globalization and Islamic religious life in the city of Amman, Jordan. Drawing on in-depth ethnographic fieldwork in Amman, Sarah A. Tobin demonstrates that Muslims combine their interests in exerting a visible Islam with the opportunities and challenges of advanced capitalism in an urban setting, which ultimately results in the cultivation of a "neoliberal Islamic piety." Neoliberal piety, Tobin contends, is created by both Islamizing economic practices and economizing Islamic piety, and is done in ways that reflect a modern, cosmopolitan style and aesthetic, revealing a keen interest in displays of authenticity on the part of the actors. Tobin highlights sites at which economic life and Islamic virtue intersect: Ramadan, the hijab, Islamic economics, Islamic banking, and consumption. Each case reflects the shift from conditions and contexts of highly regulated and legalized moral behaviors to greater levels of uncertainty and indeterminacy. In its ethnographic richness, this book shows that actors make normative claims of an authentic, real Islam in economic practice and measure them against standards that derive from Islamic law, other sources of knowledge, and the pragmatics of everyday life.

Author : Thomas B. Pepinsky,R. William Liddle,Saiful Mujani
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190697822

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Piety and Public Opinion by Thomas B. Pepinsky,R. William Liddle,Saiful Mujani Pdf

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers of these changes struggle to understand the consequences of an Islamic resurgence in a democratizing world. Will democratic political participation by an increasingly religious population lead to victories by Islamists at the ballot box? Will more conspicuously pious Muslims participate in politics and markets in a fundamentally different way than they had previously? Will a renewed attention to Islam lead Muslim democracies to reevaluate their place in the global community of states, turning away from alignments with the West or the Global South and towards an Islamic civilizational identity? The answers to all of these questions depend, at least in part, on what ordinary Muslims think and do. In order to provide these answers, the authors of this book look to Indonesia--the world's largest Muslim country and one of the world's only consolidated Muslim democracies. They draw on original public opinion data to explore how religiosity and religious belief translate into political and economic behavior at the individual level. Across various issue areas--support for democracy or Islamic law, partisan politics, Islamic finance, views about foreign engagement--they find no evidence that the religious orientations of Indonesian Muslims have any systematic relationships with their political preferences or economic behavior. The broad conclusion is that scholars of Islam, in Indonesia and elsewhere, must understand religious life and individual piety as part of a larger and more complex set of social transformations. These transformations include modernization, economic development, and globalization, each of which has occurred in parallel with Islamic revivalism throughout the world. Against the common assumption that piety would naturally inhibit any tendencies towards modernity, democracy, or cosmopolitanism, Piety and Public Opinion reveals the complex and subtle links between religion and political beliefs in a critically important Muslim democracy.

Author : Ayman Reda
Publisher : Springer
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137568250

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Prophecy, Piety, and Profits by Ayman Reda Pdf

This book examines, in greater depth than the existing literature, the history of Islamic economic thought. It seeks to introduce Islamic views to debates surrounding critical economic concepts, such as scarcity, wealth, poverty, charity, usury, self-interest, rationality, and markets. It does so through a comparative analysis with the views of Judaic, Christian, and secular economic thought. “Prophecy” is meant to signify the theoretical dimension of religion, while “piety” represents its practical element; neither part is feasible without the other. Together, prophecy and piety inform the Islamic view of economic concepts and phenomena. This view seeks to adjust our approach to profits, both in this world and the next, and seeks to reexamine what is truly profitable and worthy of sacrifice.

Author : Monzer Kahf
Publisher : Al Manhal
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9796500133867

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Notes on Islamic Economics by Monzer Kahf Pdf

``This is the one he wrote ````a series of notes about the Islamic economy```` consists of 11 chapters, and revolves around, Islamic Economics, What is it and what is it for? .. Further Notes on Definition and Methodology of Islamic Economics.. The Role of Values, Ethics and Culture in Economics .. Institutional Structure of the Islamic Economic System ..Economic Role of State in Islam .. The Role and Importance of the Private Sector .. The Demand Side or Consumer Behaviour Theory .. Supply Side or Producer Behaviour .. The Institution of Market .. Institutional Guidelines of Market Regulation..Allocation of output to factors of production and the implicit ``

Author : Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi
Publisher : Delhi : Markazi Maktaba Islami
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015058421077

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Some Aspects of the Islamic Economy by Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi Pdf

Articles on the Islamic approach to economics.

Author : Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi
Publisher : Islamic Economics
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015038568112

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Role of the State in the Economy by Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi Pdf

Manage an economy and be ethical and socially responsible. Howfind out in this book!

Author : Faegheh Shirazi
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781477309469

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Brand Islam by Faegheh Shirazi Pdf

From food products to fashions and cosmetics to children’s toys, a wide range of commodities today are being marketed as “halal” (permitted, lawful) or “Islamic” to Muslim consumers both in the West and in Muslim-majority nations. However, many of these products are not authentically Islamic or halal, and their producers have not necessarily created them to honor religious practice or sentiment. Instead, most “halal” commodities are profit-driven, and they exploit the rise of a new Islamic economic paradigm, “Brand Islam,” as a clever marketing tool. Brand Islam investigates the rise of this highly lucrative marketing strategy and the resulting growth in consumer loyalty to goods and services identified as Islamic. Faegheh Shirazi explores the reasons why consumers buy Islam-branded products, including conspicuous piety or a longing to identify with a larger Muslim community, especially for those Muslims who live in Western countries, and how this phenomenon is affecting the religious, cultural, and economic lives of Muslim consumers. She demonstrates that Brand Islam has actually enabled a new type of global networking, joining product and service sectors together in a huge conglomerate that some are referring to as the Interland. A timely and original contribution to Muslim cultural studies, Brand Islam reveals how and why the growth of consumerism, global communications, and the Westernization of many Islamic countries are all driving the commercialization of Islam.

Author : Rauf A. Azhar
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789004179370

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Economics of an Islamic Economy by Rauf A. Azhar Pdf

This book challenges the interventionist stance of Islamic economics as well as its presumption that "riba" equals interest. An Islamic economy, it argues, is essentially a market economy, but it differs from capitalist economies because both its institutions and the structure of, for example, property rights are specifically Islamic, deriving from Qur n and other sources of Islamic law. The book also focuses on the similarities and differences between "riba" and interest, establishes the often neglected connection between the two, and explores the ramifications of this connection for Islamic financial systems.

Author : Monzer Kahf
Publisher : Al Manhal
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9796500133874

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Islamic Economics by Monzer Kahf Pdf

This is the second book of the series Notes on Islamic Economics. Its subject is the charitable sector. The third sector has a special important role in the Islamic economic system because of the fundamental concern Islam gives to justice and how it is applied in a free-will private-ownership based economy.

Author : Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-07-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781134609420

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Islam, Economics, and Society (RLE Politics of Islam) by Syed Nawab Haider Naqvi Pdf

The Islamic perception of the socio-economic process is dynamic and its insistence on social justice is uncompromising. To produce the best social structure, according to this view, man’s economic endeavours should be motivated by a meaningful moral philosophy. In the face of the challenges presented by the modern world, the practice of Islamic economics raises many complex and profound issues. These are addressed in this highly important work, which must be considered essential reading for all those who live in the vision of the ‘right’. First published in 1994.

Author : Faegheh Shirazi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN : 1477309268

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Brand Islam by Faegheh Shirazi Pdf

Author : Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir,Alexius A. Pereira,Bryan S. Turner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135275952

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Muslims in Singapore by Kamaludeen Mohamed Nasir,Alexius A. Pereira,Bryan S. Turner Pdf

This book examines Muslims in Singapore, analysing their habits, practices and dispositions towards everyday life, and also their role within the broader framework of the secularist Singapore state and the cultural dominance of its Chinese elite, who are predominantly Buddhist and Christian. Singapore has a highly unusual approach to issues of religious diversity and multiculturalism, adopting a policy of deliberately ‘managing religions’ - including Islam - in an attempt to achieve orderly and harmonious relations between different racial and religious groups. This has encompassed implicit and explicit policies of containment and ‘enclavement’ of Muslims, and also the more positive policy of ‘upgrading’ Muslims through paternalist strategies of education, training and improvement, including the modernisation of madrassah education in both content and orientation. This book examines how this system has operated in practice, and evaluates its successes and failures. In particular, it explores the attitudes and reactions of Muslims themselves across all spheres of everyday life, including dining and maintaining halal-vigilance; education and dress code; and practices of courtship, sex and marriage. It also considers the impact of wider international developments, including 9/11, fear of terrorism and the associated stigmatization of Muslims; and developments within Southeast Asia such as the Jemaah Islamiah terrorist attacks and the Islamization of Malaysia and Indonesia. This study has more general implications for political strategies and public policies in multicultural societies that are deeply divided along ethno-religious lines.

Author : Thomas B. Pepinsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Islam
ISBN : 0190697830

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Piety and Public Opinion by Thomas B. Pepinsky Pdf

Across the Muslim world, religion plays an increasingly prominent role in both the private and public lives of over a billion people. Observers struggle to understand the consequences of this Islamic resurgence. Will democratic political participation by an increasingly religious population lead to victories by Islamists at the ballot box? Will more conspicuously pious Muslims participate in politics and markets in a fundamentally different way than they had previously? Will a renewed attention to Islam lead Muslim democracies to turn away from alignments with the West and toward an Islamic civilizational identity? 'Piety and Public Opinion' presents a fresh new perspective on these issues, based on the simple fact that the answers to these questions depend on what ordinary Muslims think and do.

Author : Johan Fischer
Publisher : NIAS Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9788776940324

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Proper Islamic Consumption by Johan Fischer Pdf

The West has seen the rise of the organic movement. In the Muslim world, a similar halal movement is rapidly spreading. Malaysia is at the forefront of this new global phenomenon. Examining the powerful linkages between class, consumption, market relations, Islam and the state in contemporary Malaysia, this is the first book to explore how Malaysia's emerging Malay middle class is constituted through consumer practices and Islamic revivalism. By exploring consumption practices in urban Malaysia, this book shows how diverse forms of Malay middle-class consumption (of food, clothing, and cars, for example) are understood, practiced, and contested as a particular mode of modern Islamic practice. It illustrates ways in which the issue of "proper Islamic consumption" for consumers, the marketplace, and the state in contemporary Malaysia evokes a whole range of contradictory Islamic visions, lifestyles, and debates articulating what Islam is or ought to be.