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Islam and Capitalism in the Making of Modern Bahrain - Rajeswary Ampalavanar Brown

Islam and Capitalism in the Making of Modern Bahrain

Buch | Hardcover
576 Seiten
2023
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-287467-2 (ISBN)
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This book examines the liberation of the economy in Bahrain through market-led capitalism backed by Islamic charities. The vast economic transformation has fractured parts of society in Bahrain using foreign labour and the development of skilled professionals in the private sector which has impeded the investment in the local population.
In recent decades, the culture, society, politics, and economics of Bahrain have been transformed, driving its global ambitions while retaining to a degree the rule of law and cosmopolitanism. Islam and Capitalism in the Making of Modern Bahrain examines the transformation of Bahrain from the 1930s, from a regional trading port and then an important oil producer into the financial hub for the Gulf and into a global centre of Islamic finance. It focuses on the changes and tensions that transformation brought to Bahrain's political, legal, economic, religious, and social structures.

In this book, Rajeswary Brown explores the rising force of youth populism driven by the persistence of poverty and unemployment, notably among rural Shi'ite communities and unemployed middle-class youth, as well as examining Bahrain's skillful reconciliation of the demands of Islamic faith, expressed in the Sharia, to the requirements of modern financial capitalism. In this, Bahrain's experience can be set against the modern history of much of the rest of the Middle East, most strikingly with respect to the position of Islamic charities, notably in Syria, comparisons of which are fully explored here.

Born in Malaysia but resident in the United Kingdom from the mid-1970s, Raj Brown was educated at the University of Malaya and then at London's School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). She subsequently held research positions at SOAS and at the London School of Economics (LSE). She also taught at SOAS and the LSE before moving to Royal Holloway College in the mid-1990s, rising in time to Professor in International Business. She has undertaken research fieldwork across many parts of Asia and the Middle East.

1: In the Shadow of Ethical Capitalism: The State, Law ,Oil and the Economic Transformation of Bahrain. Conclusion
2: Land, Waqf, Ma'tam, and the Moral Economy
3: Islamic Banking in Bahrain: Religious Principles and Economic Performance
4: The Bahrain Stock Market: Law, Growth, and Performance
5: The Stock Market: Dynamics of Socially Responsible Oil and Gold
6: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 on the Bahrain Economy
7: Bahrain's Arab Spring
8: A Place for the State
9: Transnational Trading Networks
10: Labour Regimes, Mobility, Productivity, and Migrant-National Workers
11: Economic Diversification
12: Ethics of Environment: Climate Crisis in the Age of Market Forces
13: Bahrain the Aspiring Hegemon in the Infernal Middle East

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 164 x 240 mm
Gewicht 1024 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie Islam
Wirtschaft Allgemeines / Lexika
Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaftslehre
ISBN-10 0-19-287467-5 / 0192874675
ISBN-13 978-0-19-287467-2 / 9780192874672
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