Social entrepreneurship in this case is a means to perform Islam, and the crowdfunding platform is an arena to organize…
Translating Muslim giving into social entrepreneurship
Islamic finance
The market in the gift
What is charity today? How do new charitable initiatives recast the classic opposition between economies organized around markets and those…
Deepening the “zero-sum binary”
Via Islamic finance, “rites” have increased their power over “rights” in Malaysia.
New guidelines are pending for Islamic financial industry
The AAOIFI, a Bahrain-based regulatory body for Islamic financial institutions, announced that it will revise its guidelines.
Secularism and the freedom to transform lives
In this post I explore the case of Bangladesh: the state of secularism there and the tensions and polemics that…
Goldman’s foray into Islamic finance
Goldman Sachs is facing new controversy, this time in the Islamic world.
Is Islamic finance safe?
As we've sometimes noted here, advocates have claimed that Islamic, Sharia-compliant financial products and systems are safer than conventional ones.…
Islamic finance undergoes test in Dubai
In the New York Times, Heather Timmons reports on the looming debt crisis in Dubai and the questions that it…