Islamic globalization : pilgrimage, capitalism, democracy, and diplomacy / Robert R. Bianchi, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore, Singapore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bianchi, Robert, 1945-

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization.

Islamic modernism.

Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Finance--Religious aspects--Islam.

Finance.

Globalization--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvii, 302 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

New Jersey : World Scientific Pub., 2013.

New Jersey : World Scientific, [2013]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Islamic Globalization examines the Muslim world's growing importance in creating a more inclusive international system that is increasingly multipolar and multicultural. The author describes an emerging pattern of Islamic globalization as a series of transformations in four interrelated areas - pilgrimage and religious travel, capitalism and Islamic finance, democracy and Islamic modernism, and diplomacy and great power politics. The book integrates the disciplines of religion, politics, economics, law, and international relations highlighting developments in the Middle East, South Asia, South

Contents:

Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; List of Maps; 1. Introduction: Islamic Globalization; Pilgrimage and Religious Travel; Capitalism and Islamic Finance; Democracy and Islamic Modernism; Diplomacy and Great Power Politics; I: Pilgrimage and Religious Travel; 2. A Pilgrim's Eye View of the Hajj; The Triumph of Experience over Ritual; Dethroning Arabian Pretensions; Bringing the Hajj Home; 3. The Contemporary Hajj; Characteristics; Symbols and Meanings; Recent Political History; The Hajj and Islamic Law; 4. The Hajj and Human Migration; Social Revolution

Global CommunityPoetic Imagination; 5. Women's Participation in the Hajj; 6. Religious Travel in Islam; II. Capitalism and Islamic Finance; 7. Capitalism and Islam; Islam as an Obstacle to Capitalism; Islam as a Variety of Capitalism; Islam as an Alternative to Capitalism; 8. The Battle for the Soul of Islamic Finance-If It Has One; Moving to the Middle; Good Things Come in Small Packages; The Ethical Edge; Working Together; The Permanent Revolution in Islamic Finance; 9. The Revolution in Islamic Finance; Integration with the Global Financial Order

Coordinating with Islamic International OrganizationsPenetrating Mass Markets; Islamic Finance and the Democratization of Religious Thought; 10. Islamic Finance and the International System: Integration without Colonialism; The Kozlowski-Bin Laden Effect: From the Washington Consensus to Basel II and SOX; Business Is Business and a Dollar Isn't What It Used To Be; Will Westerners Take Over Islamic Finance?; The 'Ulama and the Accounting Firms: Probity Versus Sorcery; When Is There Too Much Convergence and Harmonization?; International Regimes and Transnational Civil Societies

III. Democracy and Islamic Modernism11. Egypt's Revolutionary Elections; Nationwide Alignments of the Major Parties; Key Match-ups between Parties in Local Districts; Four Arenas of Social Struggle-Class and Religious Conflicts in Urban and Rural Districts; Nur Rocks the World; Partitioning Kafr al-Sheikh; Crushing the Landlords; Fayyum and its Multiple Discontents; Religious Clashes in Town and Country; Appendix 11.A. The Major Political Parties; Appendix 11.B. The Timeline and Structure of the Elections; Appendix 11.C. Nationwide Vote for Party Lists; Appendix 11.D. Party List Votes

Appendix 11.E. Voter TurnoutAppendix 11.F. Disparities in District Apportionment; Note on Data and Methods; Note on the Canal Zone and Border Regions; 12. The Social and Economic Bases of Ennahdha Power: Khaldunian and Tocquevillian Reflections on the Tunisian Elections; Suicide is Painless; From the Grand Mosaic to the Seven Tunisias; Identifying and Explaining Ennahdha Power; Aquatic Politics in Tunis-Between the Salt Flats, the Lake, and the Sea; Networking the Honeycombs of Sfax; The Tunisian Tigers; The Integrative Potential of Conflict in National Reconciliation

Appendix 12.A. The Major Political Parties

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789814508445

9814508446

OCLC:

855022909