Islamic economy and social mobility : cultural and religious considerations

xv, 372 Seiten

Includes bibliographical references and index

Enthält 13 Beiträge

Introduction: a prologueIslam, islams and stratifications : problematics of theory, methodology and subject matter -- An investigation of creatio ex Nihilo, Islam, sociality and inequality -- Two sociological outlooks : Shiite-Sunni imperatives on ascription and achievement statuses, the bases for socio-cultural and religious stratification -- Functionalism and stratification, socio-cultural evolution, revolution and stratification in the name of God -- Re-stratification in the name of God -- Structural-functionalism, stratification and historical background of islamic economic thought-transitions and ruptures -- Pathologies and transition of socio-political economy of Islamic societies with philosophical considerations -- Revisiting companionship and the socio-economy of the Islamic guilds : sufism, the guilds' vertical and horizontal structure of communication, and the Islamic economic system -- Foundations of Islamic economy, Islamic scholarship, mass media, linguistic turn and social mobility in islamic societies -- Stratification and social mobility, slavery in Islam : a critical structural-functionalism approach -- Middle East studies and Muslim experience after september 11th, 2001 : rebellion against Islamic ideology and the new counter-jihadist -- Religious economies and religious mobility : the Christian West and the Islamic East and Africa -- Islam and modernity - considering shafi'i's perspective : how Islamic thought dealt with the question of renewal / Dr. Ziadeh, USA -- Conclusion.

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