constitutional rules on social outcomes. We find no evidence that Islam encourages minority discrimination if it is not …This study examines the effect of formal institutions, specifically constitutional provisions, on minority … discrimination in Muslim societies. We hypothesize that those Muslim countries in which (political) Islam constitutes an important …

other minorities. We find that nearly 12% of UK-employed academic economists are of ethnic minority origin. However, only 1 …% of the sample are UK-born ethnic minority. Controlling for individual and workplace characteristics, there is no … significant ethnic minority effect on academic rank. However, there is a significant negative earnings effect. Further, 41% of …

Most of the literature published under the nomenclature of ‘Islamic economics' deals with Islamic guidelines that … Islamic economics as a social science from these statements. For sake of illustration, the paper first presents a selection of …

The theoretical foundation of Islamic economics and finance is based on, among other things, Homo Islamicus or Islamic … Man. Islamic economics and finance theoreticians contrast Homo Islamicus with Homo economicus or the Economic Man. This …

Islamic economics is not a social science yet. It is a work in progress. Islamic economists differ on methodology for … developing Islamic economic thought into a social science. They face several dilemmas surrounding religion, Islamic law …, conventional economics, contents of Islamic economics, current practice of Islamic finance and zakah, etc. Until fog clears around …