In Against the gods: the remarkable story of risk (1996), Peter L. Bernstein illustrates how the mastery of risk has driven modern Western society into converting 'the future from an enemy into an opportunity'. Far from being an antagonist, as the unpredictable whim of gods or mysterious fate,...

The Islamic banking sector has become a crucial part of the global banking industry. Despite the Islamic banking industry’s encouraging growth in the Southeast Asia (SEA) region, prior studies mostly focused on Islamic banks’ efficiency in the individual country. To fill the literature gap,...

The primary objective of this article is to trace the origin, history, and development of learning seminaries in Islamic history. How did learning institutions develop in Islamic history? How do they differ from all other western and eastern non-Muslim educational institutes? Tracing the origin,...

In this book, economist Jean-Philippe Platteau addresses the question: does Islam, the religion of Muslims, bear some responsibility for a lack of economic development in the countries in which it dominates? In his nuanced approach, Platteau challenges the widespread view that the doctrine of...

Introduction -- Mesopotamian roots of the modern financial system -- Mesopotamian financial innovations -- Financing ancient Egypt's organizational economy -- Finance and social capital in Classical Greece and Rome -- Justice to altruism: early Judeo-Christian finance -- Islamic finances and the...