Islamic Finance and the Shari'ah: The Dow Jones Fatwa and Permissible Variance as Studies in Letheanism and Legal Change (Islamic Finance in Practice) (Volume 1)
Product DescriptionThis book is about how Islamic finance is conducted in contemporary times. It is also about change and how change occurs in two related areas: (1) a body of law, both generally and specifically with respect to Islamic S... More >> Islamic Finance and the Shari'ah: The Dow Jones Fatwa and Permissible Variance as Studies […]
Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Product DescriptionThis book challenges the conventional wisdom that natural resource wealth promotes autocracy. Oil and other forms of mineral wealth can promote both authoritarianism and democracy, the book argues, but they do so through... More >> Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Wind & Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies / Penn State Medieval Studies)
Wind & Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies / Penn State Medieval Studies)
Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
Product DescriptionIn the thirteenth century the Mongols created a vast transcontinental empire that transported skilled artisans from one cultural zone to another. Among those transported were Muslim textile workers, resettled in China, w... More >> Commodity and Exchange in the Mongol Empire: A Cultural History of Islamic Textiles (Cambridge Studies in Islamic Civilization)
The State and the International Oil Market: Competition and the Changing Ownership of Crude Oil Assets (Studies in Industrial Organization)
Product DescriptionThe dominant position of the oil-producing countries is being challenged in the international oil market by the large international oil companies. The large private international oil companies, already comparable in s... More >> The State and the International Oil Market: Competition and the Changing Ownership of Crude Oil Assets (Studies in Industrial Organization)
The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Product DescriptionThe contributors to this volume examine how things are sold and traded in a variety of social and cultural settings, both present and past. Bridging the disciplines of social history, cultural anthropology, and economics... More >> The Social Life of Things: Commodities in Cultural Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology)