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There has been a rapid increase in the interest in the study of
Islamic finance, resulting in a dramatic rise in financing since
the beginning of the century. By the end of 2017 global industry
assets had reached $2.4 trillion and were forecasted to reach $3.2
trillion by 2020, despite historic challenges to Islam itself at
the same time. This collection of chapters provides key
theoretical, empirical, and policy insights into Islamic finance
from an overall complex financial and economic systems perspective.
Within the complex financial and economic systems framework, this
book addresses questions such as how to conceptualize Islamic
financial institutions in a nonlinear general equilibrium system,
how to promote Islamic Finance in Africa, how "Islamic" is Islamic
finance, and how it affects price stability, among other topics.
The book provides case studies in Africa and Asia, addresses the
subject in a structural financial CGE model, demonstrates the
development impact of Islamic finance, and presents an Islamic
version of the Iceland Plan for Monetary Reform.
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the
social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American
women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The
authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated
in the US setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim
identity in uniquely American ways. Transcending contemporary
political debates on the issue of Islamic head covering, The
Politics of the Headscarf in the United States addresses concerns
beyond the simple, particular phenomenon of wearing the headscarf
itself, with the authors confronting broader issues of lasting
import. These issues include the questions of safeguarding
individual and collective identity in a diverse democracy,
exploring the ways in which identities inform and shape political
practices, and sourcing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in
the United States through the voices of Muslim-American women
themselves. The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
superbly melds quantitative data with qualitative assessment, and
the authors smoothly integrate the results of nearly two thousand
survey responses from Muslim-American women across forty-nine
states. Seventy-two in-depth interviews with Muslim women living in
the United States bolster the arguments put forward by the authors
to provide an incredibly well-rounded approach to this fascinating
topic. Ultimately, the authors argue, women's experiences with
identity and boundary construction through their head-covering
practices carry important political consequences that may well shed
light on the future of the United States as a model of democratic
pluralism.
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.
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.
The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States investigates the
social and political effects of the practice of Muslim-American
women wearing the headscarf (hijab) in a non-Muslim state. The
authors find the act of head covering is not politically motivated
in the US setting, but rather it accentuates and engages Muslim
identity in uniquely American ways. Transcending contemporary
political debates on the issue of Islamic head covering, The
Politics of the Headscarf in the United States addresses concerns
beyond the simple, particular phenomenon of wearing the headscarf
itself, with the authors confronting broader issues of lasting
import. These issues include the questions of safeguarding
individual and collective identity in a diverse democracy,
exploring the ways in which identities inform and shape political
practices, and sourcing the meaning of citizenship and belonging in
the United States through the voices of Muslim-American women
themselves. The Politics of the Headscarf in the United States
superbly melds quantitative data with qualitative assessment, and
the authors smoothly integrate the results of nearly two thousand
survey responses from Muslim-American women across forty-nine
states. Seventy-two in-depth interviews with Muslim women living in
the United States bolster the arguments put forward by the authors
to provide an incredibly well-rounded approach to this fascinating
topic. Ultimately, the authors argue, women's experiences with
identity and boundary construction through their head-covering
practices carry important political consequences that may well shed
light on the future of the United States as a model of democratic
pluralism.
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