Islamic economy and social mobility
Subtitle: cultural and religious considerations
By: Hasan Shahpari and Tahereh Alavi Hojjat, editors
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Hershey
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781466697317; 9781466697324
Subjects: Economics; Economic aspects; Islam; Social mobility
Description: "This book analyzes the social, cultural, religious, and political implications of the Islamic economy at the global level by highlighting the foundations upon which Islamic ideology is formed and how it impacts socio-cultural and economic systems both within and outside of primarily Islamic regions"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: a prologue; title: Islam, islams and stratifications : problematics of theory, methodology and subject matter; title: An investigation of creatio ex Nihilo, Islam, sociality and inequality; title: Two sociological outlooks : Shiite-Sunni imperatives on ascription and achievement statuses, the bases for socio-cultural and religious stratification; title: Functionalism and stratification, socio-cultural evolution, revolution and stratification in the name of God; title: Re-stratification in the name of God; title: Structural-functionalism, stratification and historical background of islamic economic thought-transitions and ruptures; title: Pathologies and transition of socio-political economy of Islamic societies with philosophical considerations; title: Revisiting companionship and the socio-economy of the Islamic guilds : sufism, the guilds' vertical and horizontal structure of communication, and the Islamic economic system; title: Foundations of Islamic economy, Islamic scholarship, mass media, linguistic turn and social mobility in islamic societies; title: Stratification and social mobility, slavery in Islam : a critical structural-functionalism approach; title: Middle East studies and Muslim experience after september 11th, 2001 : rebellion against Islamic ideology and the new counter-jihadist; title: Religious economies and religious mobility : the Christian West and the Islamic East and Africa; title: Islam and modernity - considering shafi'i's perspective : how Islamic thought dealt with the question of renewal / Dr. Ziadeh, USA; title: Conclusion.