Accounting for accounting demands renewed attention to the knowledge practices of the accounting profession and anthropological analysis. Using data and theory from Islamic accountancy in Indonesia and the global network of Islamic financial engineers, this article challenges work on accounting’s rhetorical functions by attending to the inherent reflexivity of accounting practice and the practi...

Al Qaeda and its affiliated groups offer the analyst a highly complex challenge. The current literature classifies Islamic terrorist organizations as either networked or hierarchical. Yet, this classification fails to account for the appearance on the international stage of a new type of global terrorism. Most notably, it does not capture the structure and mode of operation of Al Qaeda as it em...

the ideal order which is based on the unity of islamic nation is basically opposedto present geographical order that is based on the traditional and westfally order. itseems that basic dishormony of islam ideological order can be analayzed withwestfally, in the following dimension: isalm concentrates on the ideologicalborders, the national branch base and the rejecting the national gevernment.a...

Th e main objective of this paper is to highlight the importance of the fi nancial stability of the global fi nancial system particularly aft er the recent global fi nancial crisis of 200809. Th e major causes of diff erent fi nancial crises possess the same pattern of greed among investors, ineffi ciency of government regulators, central banks and other stakeholders. Th ey have miserably faile...

This study compares the hazard of failure in Islamic and conventional commercial banks using survival models. The sample consists of 421 banks from 20 Middle and Far Eastern countries observed during the 1995 to 2010 period. The conditioning variables are of both bank-level and country-level type. The analysis suggests that Islamic banks have lower failure risk and are less interconnected which...