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Acknowledgment -- Prologue -- Introduction: the nature of Islamic financial economics in Tawhidi methodological framework -- The Tawhidi methodology with implication in Islamic economics as an embedded socio-scientific system contra-Islamic mainstream reasoning -- The philosophy of knowledge in Islam and its implications on the generality and specifics of the world-system -- Religion and social economics -- Appendix to chapter 3: non-parametric representation of what integration between economics and religions means in the evolutionary learning methodological worldview -- Generalized system view of Maqasid as-shariah -- The performance measures of Islamic banking based on the maqasid framework -- Shari'ah market in global implications -- A generalized islamic development-financing instrument -- The role of zakah in mainstream economic model -- Human potential, wellbeing and philanthropy: a philosophico-financial economic inquiry -- The Islamic panacea to global financial predicament : a new financial architecture -- Statistical appendix to chapter 10: data on critical financial crisis indicators -- Is there possibility for Islamic financial economics and islamic banking? (a post-orthodoxy criticism) -- Conclusion: islamisation of knowledge and education and its implication in Islamic financial economics

In Religious Liberty in Western and Islamic Law: Toward a World Legal Tradition, Kristine Kalanges argues that differences between Western and Islamic legal formulations of religious freedom are attributable to variations in their respective religious and intellectual histories. Kalanges suggests that while divergence between the two bodies of law challenges the characterization of religious liberty as a universal human right, the difficult choice between the universality of religious liberty rights and peaceful co-existence of diverse legal cultures may yet be transformed through the cultivation of a world legal tradition.

1. Introduction -- 2. Primary forms of Islamic expression online -- 3. Muslim diversity online -- 4. Politics, Islam and the Net -- 5. Digital minbar: Islamic obligations and authority online -- 6. Cyber Islamic futures

The following tables represent the results of analysis of data on religion for all of the countries of the world which appear in the World Religion Database (Johnson and Grim 2008). These data are collected at the national level from a number of sources including censuses, surveys, polls, religious communities, scholars, and others.

Despite increasing public attention to animal suffering, little seems to have changed: Human beings continue to exploit billions of animals in factory farms, medical laboratories, and elsewhere. In this wide-ranging and perceptive study, Lisa Kemmerer shows how spiritual writings and teachings in seven major religious traditions can help people to consider their ethical obligations toward other creatures. Dr. Kemmerer examines the role of nonhuman animals in scripture and myth, in the lives of religious exemplars, and by drawing on foundational philosophical and moral teachings. She begins with a study of indigenous traditions around the world, then focuses on the religions of India (Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain) and China (Daoism and Confucianism), and finally, religions of the Middle East (Judaism, Christianity, and Islam). At the end of each chapter, Kemmerer explores the inspiring lives and work of contemporary animal advocates who are motivated by a personal religious commitment. Animals and World Religions demonstrates that rethinking how we treat nonhuman animals is essential for anyone claiming one of the world`s great religions.

Today, and historically, religions often seem to be intolerant, narrow-minded, and zealous. But the record is not so one-sided. In Religious Tolerance in World Religions, numerous scholars offer perspectives on the "what" and "why" traditions of tolerance in world religions, beginning with the pre-Christian West, Greco-Roman paganism, and ancient Israelite Monotheism and moving into modern religions such as Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, and Hinduism. By tolerance the authors mean "the capacity to live with religious difference, and by toleration, the theory

This edited volume determines where slavery in the Islamic world fits within the global history of slavery and the various models that have been developed to analyze it. To that end, the authors focus on a question about Islamic slavery that has frequently been asked but not answered satisfactorily, namely, what is Islamic about slavery in the Islamic world. Through the fields of history, sociology, literature, women's studies, African studies, and comparative slavery studies, this book is an important contribution to the scholarly research on slavery in the Islamic lands, which continues to be understudied and under-represented in global slavery studies. Mary Ann Fay is former Associate Professor of History in the Department of History and Geography at Morgan State University, USA and is the author of Unveiling the Harem: Elite Women and the Paradox of Seclusion in Eighteenth- Century Cairo