Istudy how a revolutionary vanguard might use violence to mobilize a mass public. The mechanism is informational—–the vanguard uses violence to manipulate population member’s beliefs about the level of antigovernment sentiment in society. The model has multiple equilibria, one equilibrium in which there may be revolution and another in which there is certain not to be. In the former, structural...

Abstract In this article I consider the connection between Islam and utopia, using renewed visibility that Islamic actors moral economies have gained in post-revolutionary Tunisian public sphere as a starting point. particular, based on ethnographic findings from field research Tunisia, take into account interest Salafism expressed by young Muslims, recently fascinated Salafi tradition even if ...

Whilst E-Commerce is spreading world-wide, many Muslims are wondering whether this new form of commerce is acceptable from the Syariah (Islamic Law) point of view. Thus, this research paper is meant to study the Islamic perspectives in e-commerce, particularly in its transaction, as well as the rights of the producers and customers. Issues on the legality of E-Commerce in Islam are examined to ...

Islam is the dominant religion in about 56 countries around the globe, and has more than 1.2 billion followers. Islam represents a holistic way of life, and according to a large proportion of its followers, the Islamic law or Shari'ah should prevail over secular law and should be implemented as state law. The etymological root of the word Shari'ah can be traced back to the harsh life in the des...

In this beautifully crafted book, Timur Kuran provides a remarkably rich analysis of how Islamic law impeded economic progress in the Middle East and North Africa. Kuran’s views are fresh and powerful, and they are subtle. He does not claim that Islamic law was generally bad for economic activity. He does not claim that prohibitions on interest denied credit to merchants or entrepreneurs. Nor d...

The terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, and the subsequent military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq placed the question of Islam and Muslim politics squarely in the American public’s mind. In bookshops and classrooms, and on radio and television talk shows, Americans were treated to crash courses on the history of Islam, Muslim attitudes toward democracy, the reasons (some) Muslim women ...

Al-Islam and Kemuhammadiyahan (AIK) must be part of the efforts Muhammadiyah universities to achieve vision mission universities, namely "the formation human learners who are pious, have a noble character, progress excel in science technology as embodiment tajdid da'wah amar ma'ruf nahi munkar ". To stated goals, it is necessary comprehensive AIK learning tools revolutionary paradigm. One ways ...

2 Muslims are currently the largest religious minority in Western Europe. This presence of Islam in Europe is a direct consequence of the existence of pathways of immigration (that opened up in the early 1960s) leading from the Western States' former colonies in Asia, Africa, and the Caribbean. Following the official end of work-based immigration in 1974, the integration of such immigrant popul...

The aim of this paper is to sketch a line of interpretation of certain political-philosophical discourses on 'Islam in Europe' through the interrelated concepts of appropriation and redemption. Muslim presence in Europe is generally perceived as 'problematic.' A specific vocabulary, including terms like 'liberal dilemma,' 'defense of freedom,' 'Muslim exceptionalism', and 'specification of acce...

One important problem concerning incommensurability is to explain how theories that are incommensurable can nevertheless compete. In this paper I shall briefly review Kuhn’s account of the difference between revolutionary and non-revolutionary conceptual developments. I shall argue that his taxonomic approach and the no-overlap principle it entails does not suffice to distinguish between revolu...