Projecting a global interdisciplinary vision, this insightful book develops a peer-to-peer learning methodology to facilitate reconciling religion and human rights, both in multilateral contexts and at the national level. Written by leading human rights practitioners, the book illuminates the tension zones between religion and rights, exploring how the 'faith' elements in both disciplines can create synergies for protecting equal human dignity. Ibrahim Salama and Michael Wiener analyse the place of religion in multilateral practice, including lessons learned from the 'Faith for Rights' framework. Based on the jurisprudence of international human rights mechanisms, the book clarifies ambiguities of human rights law on religion. It also unpacks the potential positive role of non-State actors in the religious sphere, demonstrating that the relationship between religion and human rights is not a zero-sum game. Ultimately, the book empowers actors on both sides of the ideological fence between religion and human rights to deconstruct this artificial, politically instrumentalized dichotomy. This innovative book will be a vital resource for faith-based actors, human rights defenders and policymakers working at the intersection between religion, culture and human rights. With the co-authors' commentary on the #Faith4Rights toolkit, it will also be invaluable for peer-to-peer learning facilitators, scholars and students of human rights law, public international law and religious studies.

Ergodic theory is a field that is lively on its own and also in its interactions with other branches of mathematics and science. In recent years the interchanges with harmonic analysis have been especially noticeable and productive in both directions. The 1993 Alexandria Conference explored many of these connections as they were developing. The three survey papers in this book describe the relationships of almost everywhere convergence (J. Rosenblatt and M. Wierdl), rigidity theory (R. Spatzier), and the theory of joinings (J.-P. Thouvenot). These papers present the background of each area of interaction, the most outstanding recent results, and the currently promising lines of research. They should form perfect starting points for anyone beginning research in one of these areas. The book also includes thirteen research papers that describe recent work related to the theme of the conference: several treat questions arising from the Furstenberg multiple recurrence theory, while the remainder discuss almost everywhere convergence and a variety of other topics in dynamics.

Islamische Banken und Versicherungen sind weltweit auf dem Vormarsch und verzeichnen zweistellige Wachstumsraten. Auch hierzulande erfreut sich das sog. Islamic Finance & Banking grosser Nachfrage. Im Fruhjahr 2015 wurde in Deutschland der ersten islamischen Bank die Lizenz erteilt. Produkte und Dienstleistungen dieser Banken basieren auf dem islamischen Wirtschaftsrecht (fiqh al-mu'amalat al-maliyya), welches die Autoren in diesem Band naher beleuchten. Neben der Frage nach der Umsetzbarkeit der Produkte und Dienstleistungen, die massgeblich von der Konformitat mit der hiesigen Rechtsordnung - insbesondere im Hinblick auf aufsichts-, zivil- und steuerrechtlichen Anforderungen - abhangt, behandeln sie grundsatzliche Fragen nach der Vereinbarkeit jener Institute mit dem herrschenden Wirtschaftssystem.