Daromir Rudnyckyj
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226551920
- eISBN:
- 9780226552118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226552118.003.0001
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter articulates the two central questions of the book: 1) what makes Islamic finance Islamic, and 2) what kind of alternative does Islamic finance present to conventional finance. It ...
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This chapter articulates the two central questions of the book: 1) what makes Islamic finance Islamic, and 2) what kind of alternative does Islamic finance present to conventional finance. It situates the work in relation to anthropology, the social studies of finance, and work within Islamic economics and finance. The book develops a new line of analysis in economic anthropology: rather than presuming a necessary opposition between society and economy, it seeks to show how new forms of subjectivity and sociality are produced through economic action. Further, the chapter argues that Islamic finance offers both a diagnosis and solution to the problems created by debt. The chapter also describes how the book departs from work that seeks to evaluate the authenticity and distinctiveness of Islamic finance by arguing that this question was itself the object of reflection among Islamic finance experts. The chapter also introduces the concept of the "Islamic global city."Less
This chapter articulates the two central questions of the book: 1) what makes Islamic finance Islamic, and 2) what kind of alternative does Islamic finance present to conventional finance. It situates the work in relation to anthropology, the social studies of finance, and work within Islamic economics and finance. The book develops a new line of analysis in economic anthropology: rather than presuming a necessary opposition between society and economy, it seeks to show how new forms of subjectivity and sociality are produced through economic action. Further, the chapter argues that Islamic finance offers both a diagnosis and solution to the problems created by debt. The chapter also describes how the book departs from work that seeks to evaluate the authenticity and distinctiveness of Islamic finance by arguing that this question was itself the object of reflection among Islamic finance experts. The chapter also introduces the concept of the "Islamic global city."
Nasser Rabbat
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9789774165290
- eISBN:
- 9781617971334
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774165290.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
This chapter traces the development of the Suq in Damascus from the coming of Islam to the advent of modernity (7th to 19th century). It focuses on the urban and architectural characters of the suq ...
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This chapter traces the development of the Suq in Damascus from the coming of Islam to the advent of modernity (7th to 19th century). It focuses on the urban and architectural characters of the suq and analyzes the changes in its layout, form and significance over time. The Damascus suq was not a variant on the ideal type of the “Islamic City” but a dynamic cultural artifact responsive primarily to its changing economic and political circumstances.Less
This chapter traces the development of the Suq in Damascus from the coming of Islam to the advent of modernity (7th to 19th century). It focuses on the urban and architectural characters of the suq and analyzes the changes in its layout, form and significance over time. The Damascus suq was not a variant on the ideal type of the “Islamic City” but a dynamic cultural artifact responsive primarily to its changing economic and political circumstances.
Daromir Rudnyckyj
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226551920
- eISBN:
- 9780226552118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226552118.003.0002
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes the infrastructure that the Malaysian state has created to make Kuala Lumpur an Islamic global city: a central node for the practice of transnational Islamic finance. It ...
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This chapter describes the infrastructure that the Malaysian state has created to make Kuala Lumpur an Islamic global city: a central node for the practice of transnational Islamic finance. It examines the key Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia and describes how the state's aspirations for Islamic finance changed from a national to a global following the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. It focuses on the establishment of the key regulatory, commercial, educational, and research institutions necessary to make the Malaysian model of Islamic finance a global standard.Less
This chapter describes the infrastructure that the Malaysian state has created to make Kuala Lumpur an Islamic global city: a central node for the practice of transnational Islamic finance. It examines the key Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia and describes how the state's aspirations for Islamic finance changed from a national to a global following the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s. It focuses on the establishment of the key regulatory, commercial, educational, and research institutions necessary to make the Malaysian model of Islamic finance a global standard.
Ahmed Sedky
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9789774162459
- eISBN:
- 9781617970122
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- American University in Cairo Press
- DOI:
- 10.5743/cairo/9789774162459.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Middle Eastern Studies
The Arab Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still ...
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The Arab Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable. This book investigates the reasons behind this condition, exploring and comparing regional and international case studies. Questions such as how and what to conserve are raised and elaborated through the perspectives of different stakeholders. A resulting evaluative framework is accumulated that underpins the criteria for assessing area conservation in the Arab Islamic context and that can be used to delineate the causes responsible for the present condition of Historic Cairo.Less
The Arab Islamic city has been always a glamorous urban dream in human cultural memory. This is manifested in Cairo, the world's largest medieval urban system where traditional lifestyles are still implemented. Nevertheless, despite the extensive efforts to preserve Historic Cairo, it is sadly vulnerable. This book investigates the reasons behind this condition, exploring and comparing regional and international case studies. Questions such as how and what to conserve are raised and elaborated through the perspectives of different stakeholders. A resulting evaluative framework is accumulated that underpins the criteria for assessing area conservation in the Arab Islamic context and that can be used to delineate the causes responsible for the present condition of Historic Cairo.
Kay Prag
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- September 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780197266427
- eISBN:
- 9780191884252
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197266427.001.0001
- Subject:
- Archaeology, Historical Archaeology
Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology is concerned with the archaeology and history of Jerusalem. It is a story of ongoing crises, of adaptations, inheritance and cultural transmission over ...
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Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology is concerned with the archaeology and history of Jerusalem. It is a story of ongoing crises, of adaptations, inheritance and cultural transmission over many centuries under successive rulers, where each generation owed a cultural debt to its predecessors, from the Bronze Age to the modern world. It is not a summary history of occupation over four millennia, but rather a reflection of events as revealed in a major programme of archaeological excavation conducted by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in the 1960s, which is still in process of publication. The excavation archive has an ongoing relevance, even though knowledge of the city and its inhabitants has increased over the decades since then, revealing fresh insights to set against contemporary work. The preservation of such archives has great importance for future historians. Among topics addressed are the nature of a dispersed settlement pattern in the 2nd millennium BC; a fresh look at the vexed problems of the biblical accounts of the work of David and Solomon and the development of the city in the 10th and 9th centuries BC; the nature of the fortifications of the town re-established by Nehemiah in the 5th century BC; some evidence of the Roman occupation following the almost total destruction of the city in AD 70; and an exploration within the Islamic city during the 12th to 15th centuries. The latter illustrates the endless interest in Jerusalem shown by the outside world.Less
Re-excavating Jerusalem: Archival Archaeology is concerned with the archaeology and history of Jerusalem. It is a story of ongoing crises, of adaptations, inheritance and cultural transmission over many centuries under successive rulers, where each generation owed a cultural debt to its predecessors, from the Bronze Age to the modern world. It is not a summary history of occupation over four millennia, but rather a reflection of events as revealed in a major programme of archaeological excavation conducted by Dame Kathleen Kenyon in the 1960s, which is still in process of publication. The excavation archive has an ongoing relevance, even though knowledge of the city and its inhabitants has increased over the decades since then, revealing fresh insights to set against contemporary work. The preservation of such archives has great importance for future historians. Among topics addressed are the nature of a dispersed settlement pattern in the 2nd millennium BC; a fresh look at the vexed problems of the biblical accounts of the work of David and Solomon and the development of the city in the 10th and 9th centuries BC; the nature of the fortifications of the town re-established by Nehemiah in the 5th century BC; some evidence of the Roman occupation following the almost total destruction of the city in AD 70; and an exploration within the Islamic city during the 12th to 15th centuries. The latter illustrates the endless interest in Jerusalem shown by the outside world.
Daromir Rudnyckyj
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- May 2019
- ISBN:
- 9780226551920
- eISBN:
- 9780226552118
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226552118.003.0005
- Subject:
- Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology
This chapter describes sukuk, one of the most celebrated instruments in contemporary Islamic finance. Often referred to as Islamic bonds, the chapter illustrates how Islamic finance experts identify ...
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This chapter describes sukuk, one of the most celebrated instruments in contemporary Islamic finance. Often referred to as Islamic bonds, the chapter illustrates how Islamic finance experts identify the emergence of Islamic bonds in Ottoman history. The chapter argues that one of the main problems with sukuk is that, due to the way Islamic finance is framed by conventional finance, they often wind up mimicking conventional bonds. The chapter empirically documents the efforts of one Islamic finance practitioner to find a lead issuer for a sukuk based on Australian home mortgages in Kuala Lumpur.Less
This chapter describes sukuk, one of the most celebrated instruments in contemporary Islamic finance. Often referred to as Islamic bonds, the chapter illustrates how Islamic finance experts identify the emergence of Islamic bonds in Ottoman history. The chapter argues that one of the main problems with sukuk is that, due to the way Islamic finance is framed by conventional finance, they often wind up mimicking conventional bonds. The chapter empirically documents the efforts of one Islamic finance practitioner to find a lead issuer for a sukuk based on Australian home mortgages in Kuala Lumpur.
