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Sami Al-Daghistani

Sami Al-Daghistani is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society in Oslo, an Associate Faculty Member at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research in New York, and a Research Scholar at the Middle East Institute at Columbia University. He is the author of Ethical Teachings of Abū Ḥāmid al-Ghazālī: Economics of Happiness (London/New York: Anthem Press, 2021) and The Making of Islamic Economics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022), and translator to Slovenian of Ibn Ṭufayl’s Ḥay ibn Yaqẓān (Ljubljana: Kud Logos, 2016) and Ibn Baṭṭūta’s Riḥla (Ljubljana: Publishing House of the Faculty of Social Sciences, 2017).

Posts From This Author

[IMTF] Decolonizing Economics: On Knowledge, Power, and Polyvalent Economic Thought in Islam

By Sami Al-Daghistani // July 21, 2022March 22, 2023

On Modern Islamic Economics Mainstream depictions of economic science and the development of capitalism are by-and-large historically distorted. They ignore power relations and are based upon a particular philosophical understanding of the division of sciences…

Kasb (Livelihood), Faqr (Poverty), and Zuhd (Renunciation) in Islamic Economic Tradition

By Sami Al-Daghistani // January 3, 2022March 22, 2023

This piece is a response to the initial query of the project on Virtue Ethics and the Cultivation of the Moral Self by Martin Nguyen. In this first response essay, I briefly analyze the state…