- In Islamic Economics and Finance in Action (Brill Academic Publishers), Shinsuke Nagaoka (Kyoto University) “provides an in-depth picture of how Islamic finance, which began as a commercial practice half a century ago, has grown globally through the trials and errors of bankers and scholars, with analyses of various controversies within the financial industry and academia (Islamic economics) and its entanglement with the capitalism that Islamic finance has confronted.” [login required]
- In “Introducing Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Nekounam’s “Wisdom-Oriented Jurisprudence” (Fiqh-i Ḥikmat-Garā) to Western Academic Audiences” (Islamic Law & Law of the Muslim World eJournal), Jalil Abbasi (Bonn University) “explores the epistemological transition from mechanical reproduction to a dynamic, teleological legal realism grounded in three non-negotiable pillars: Systematic Understanding of Sharī‘a (Fahm-i Niẓām-Mand), Empirical Subject-Recognition (Mawżū‘-shināsī), Teleological Criteria-Discovery (Milāk-yābī / Tanqīḥ-i Manāṭ).”