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,...

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,...

This is a contribution that will appear in the forthcoming book "In the Realm of Corona Normativities", edited by Prof. Werner Gephart, Käte Hamburger Center. The paper advances an interpretation of the EU political impasse about how to deal with the COVID-19 emergency by shifting Agamben's...

This manuscript deals with some interpretive issues related to 'sustainability' when the concept moves ('is translated') from conventional to Islamic economics. To this aim it raises some critical remarks on possible hermeneutical mistakes in asserting an immediate convergence between the former...

Referring to Shakespeare's Hamlet, this paper explains the “tragedy of Islamic economics” by looking at the issue of the moral economy of Islam as an orientalistic “ghost” that, if may distress the “world” of conventional economics, represents, instead, a false problem for its own...

This article deals with the notion of property (māl) and the conceptualization of credit relations in Islamic law by investigating the dyad 'ayn/dayn and highlighting the functional linkage between dayn (debt/credit) and dhimma (legal personality). More precisely, in accordance with the...

This paper suggests a juridical interpretation of the prohibitions of ribā, gharar and maysir through the outline of the concept of ‘right', haqq, in Muslim law. The approach provides a comprehension of the bans alternative to its religious/moral understanding which is still prevalent in...