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An online publication of the AbuSulayman Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Islam and economics

[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…

[Book Review] A Socially Responsible Islamic Finance: Character and the Common Good by Umar Moghul [Reviewed by Khalil Abdur-Rashid]

By Khalil Abdur-Rashid  //  July 9, 2018

Umar Moghul. A Socially Responsible Islamic Finance: Character and the Common Good (New York: Palgrave-MacMillan, 2017). 315 pages. $159.99 hardback. In recent years, Islamic finance and economics continue to occupy an increasingly popular space in…

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