Search results for "Islamic"

Political Extremism and Rationality

2002

Political extremism is widely considered to be the product of irrational behavior. Originally published in 2002, the distinguishing feature of this collection by well-known economists and political scientists from North America, Europe and Australia is to propose a variety of explanations which all insist on the rationality of extremism. Contributors use variants of this approach to shed light on subjects such as the conditions under which democratic parties take extremist positions, the relationship between extremism and conformism, the strategies adopted by revolutionary movements, and the reasons why extremism often leads to violence. The authors identify four core issues in the study of…

"E non disputate con la Gente del Libro altro che nel modo migliore".

2017

Mudarrisūn e muḥaddiṯūn a Damasco negli awāmir sulṭāniyyah (1876-1908)

2014

The Center for Historical Documentation of Damascus, which was founded in 1960, houses a relevant variety of first-hand sources dating back to the Ottoman period, which prove to be fundamental in order to better define some peculiar aspects of history of Bilād al-Šām, such as the role of ʿulamāʾ and transmission of knowledge. As far as this is concerned, the awāmir sulṭāniyyah represent an essential part of the documentation, not only for the number of biographical data about mudarrisūn and muḥadditūn who were living and teaching in Damascus, but also for the particular relationship that they established with the main cultural institutions of the city, such as the traditional madāris. Throu…

"La fonte d'acqua dolce nella storia di Tripoli d'Occidente" di Ahmad Bey al-Na'ib al-Ansari: un esempio di storiografia arabo-ottomana di fine Ottoc…

2005

Hizballāh and Lebanese Nationalism: The muqāwamah Proposal, Limits and Perimeters

2018

Abstract In this paper, an attempt was made to understand whether the ideological proposal of the muqāwamah (Islamic resistance), advanced by Ḥizballāh from 1982 until the present day, can be considered as a national value that is valid not only for the Shia community, but also for other communities, such as Christian or Sunni. In this paper, an attempt was made to understand whether the ideological proposal of the muqāwamah, advanced by Ḥizballāh from 1982 until the present day, can be considered as a national value that is valid not only for the Shia community, but also for other communities, such as Christian or Sunni.

Globalización, valores sociales y choque de civilizaciones

2005

The thesis of the supposed clash of the Islamic and the western civilizations is, by far, the most diffused and debated of all the subjects and proposals dealt Huntington in his book <i>The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order</i>, above all after the terrorist attacks of the September 11<sup>th</sup>. The results of the World Social Survey 2000-2001 directed by Inglehart, are used in the present article to test the thesis of the cultural differences in a wide sample of Western Christian and Islamic societies. The comparative analysis undertaken allows to conclude that the cultural differences between both group societies are quite important, althou…

Consumer Protection in E-Commerce Transactions: A First Comparison between European Law and Islamic Law

2009

The article compares EU and Islamic law with reference to consumer protection in e-commerce transactions.

Niswiyya, Nisā’iyya and Unthawiyya: Some Reflections on Arabic Terms for ‘Feminism

2019

This paper addresses three Arabic terms used for feminism: niswiyya, nisa'iyya and unthawiyya pointing out their connotations and semantic aspects. One of the problems which feminist scholars face is linguistic. There is a historical rejection of the term feminism and all its derivatives in Arabic. It is often perceived as a Western secular product that recalls the bitter experience of European colonialism. The paper draws from the reflection of two Egyptian Islamic intellectuals involved in the question of improving Egyptian women’s conditions. Their words emphasize how the efforts of contemporary Islamic feminists can be discredited just because they fall under the label of ‘Islamic femin…

L’integrazione dei Musulmani in Europa e la circolazione della banca e della finanza islamica (Integration of Muslims in Europe and Circulation of Is…

2018

Italian Abstract: Lo stabilizzarsi di comunita islamiche all'interno dell'Unione Europea impone l'attenzione sulle peculiarita legate alla realta islamica. Lo “spazio della sharī'a”, infatti, lungi dal confinarsi nel medio oriente si estende all'Unione Europea attraverso i luoghi di lavoro, le scuole, gli ospedali, i tribunali e i mercati. All’espansione dei modelli normativi islamici hanno contribuito, in particolare, le politiche di “ristrutturazione” dell'ordinamento islamico degli anni '80 del secolo scorso e l'intensificarsi dei flussi migratori a partire degli anni '90, creando un terreno fertile al dispiegarsi delle potenzialita della sharī'a a livello transnazionale, offrendo a sogg…

The determinants of islamic banks performance : a compared and longitudinal analysis including governance mechanisms

2021

This doctoral thesis is part of a process of understanding the management of institutions practicing Islamic finance. It focuses on Islamic banks and studies their performance through some determinants offered by banking literature. The idea is to reflect on the sustainable determinants that could, on the one hand, help to better explain Islamic banking performance, and on the other hand, compare the relationships that might exist between these determinants and the different measures of banking performance (conventional and Islamic). This approach to understand Islamic banking performance includes the study of ownership structure, configuration of decision-making power, resilience to the 20…