Is Islam compatible with modern economic development? The poor development record of predominantly Muslim countries during the past century has led to claims that only a return to medieval Islamic institutions will produce economic growth in a manner that is compatible with Islamic culture. Using data from the thirteenth century Islamic Levant, this paper examines how one medieval Islamic insti...

The main aim of this paper is to provide an introductory discussion of the issue of the human need for a Social symbiosis and Collectivism in the contemporary global community and of the constructive role that religion could play in delivering this global need. There are many ways to categorise ideologies and religions, but the most constructive is one between collectivism and individualism. In...

islam is a value maker religion; it has fought against the values that are abnormal and incongruent with human dignity, and has established a system based on divine and humane values. imam ali (peace be upon him) is considered the best exegete of islam and quran whose soul is united with quranic knowledge and whose life is associated with it. in the light of the foregoing points and with an emp...

Abstract This article is about Islamism (or political Islam) as a challenge for contemporary liberal democracies. portrayed an ideology that favors one specific religion supreme and threat to freedom of speech. The author makes plea distinguishing a. the Islam, b. Muslims group, c. Islamism. Regarding dangers Islamism, some sociological research convictions discussed (Koopmans, Esposito) most r...

~us writes Sayyid Qutb, the founding father • ~f the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, in a polemic essay! which levels at Christians the common Islamic accusation that they suffer from a 'hideous schizophrenia' encapsulated in the exhortation to 'render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.' Since its inception, Islam has presented unprecedented challenges to...

Until recently, many scholars attributed the divergence in Middle Eastern and Western European economic development to the "conservative nature" of Islam. This paper departs from such scholarship, suggesting that institutions supporting economically inhibitive laws are more likely to be self-enforcing in the Muslim world – providing an appearance of conservatism. A theoretical model suggests th...

the principal problem in studying farabi’s political philosophy is working out the dilemma of his thought, which has adopted three sources: greek political philosophy, iranshahri (persian polis) pre-islamic political thoughts, and islamic courses; who doesn’t accommodate properly in orientalist’s trinary category: greek political philosophy/ fighi shari’at-name/ iranian siasat-name. this articl...