This book, coming from the pen of the first serious Japanese scholar on Islam, discovers the substantive structure of the Qur'anic teaching in a fourfold relationship between God and man, viz., (i) God is the creator of man; (ii) He communicates His Will to man through revelation; (iii) there subsists a Lord-servant relationship between God and man and (iv) the concept of God as the God of good…
Islamic Capital Markets: A Comparative Approach (2nd Edition) looks at the similarities and differences between Islamic capital markets and conventional capital markets. The book explains each topic from both the conventional and the Islamic perspective, offering a full understanding of Islamic capital markets, processes, and instruments. In addition to a full explanation of Islamic products, t…
Islam, Bruce Lawrence argues, is a complex, international religious system that cannot be reduced to stereotypes. As Lawrence demonstrates, Islam is a religion shaped as much by its own postulates and ehical demands as by the specific circumstances of Muslim people in the modern world. It is time, Lawrence believes, to replace innacurate images of Islam with a recognition of the multifaced char…