The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

Objective – Islam regulate distribution also redistribution of wealth, and how this concept break away the inefficiency of economic activity. The concept of redistribution has always been a debate in every microeconomics discussion in various areas, such as its mechanism, its implementation...

The study looks at various aspects of the relationship between official law and the Muslim majority's unofficial Shari'a law in Turkey. It provides a concise account of the current secular Turkish Civil Code with a special focus on family law issues such as consent, age of marriage, registration...

Islamist nationalist project the AKP has embarked upon has found its resonance in foreign policy which espoused a proactive, interventionist policy in ex-Ottoman territories and Turkish diaspora communities. The most striking and significant change in AKP’s conception of nationalism is the...

The paper explores the evolution of ethnic identities of two important and distinct immigrant religious groups. Using data from Germany, a large European country with many immigrants, we study the adaptation processes of Muslims and Christians. Individual data on language, culture, societal...

The present study is part of a much larger study that examined the ethics of bribery and the ethics of tax evasion from a variety of perspectives. In this study, data were taken from the most recent World Values Survey. This chapter focused on Muslim views on the ethics of accepting a bribe....

Created for the Muslims of the Indian Sub-continent in 1947, Pakistan is by design a Muslim majority state with 97 percent Muslim population. Despite the division of India and Pakistan based on distinct religious identities as per the ‘Two-Nation Theory’ (Cohen 2004), Pakistan continues to...

The Shahbag movement emerged in early February of 2013 as a sit-in protest in the Shahbag square of Dhaka city on the demands of capital punishment of war criminals of the 1971 liberation war of Bangladesh. This paper evaluates the movement as case study for the framing tasks theory of social...

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...

Religious adherence has been hard to study in part because it is hard to measure. We develop a new measure of religious adherence, which is granular in both time and space, using anonymized mobile phone transaction records. After validating the measure with traditional data, we show how it can...