Religion And Contract Law In Islam From Medieval Trade To Global Finance 1st Edition Valentino Cattelan by Valentino Cattelan 9781315145761, 9781138504042, 1315145766, 1138504041 instant download after payment.

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secular

life? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a search that

spans revelation, legal tradition, and the reality of the Muslim world, this book

explores the Islamic contract (‘aqd in Arabic) as a ‘city’ at the crossroads of

convergent paths of translation, comparison, and law in context.

In particular, the book shows that only by re-orienting traditional categories

of Western law-religion toward the East can an alternative path of discovery

for the ‘aqd be advanced. Hence, through a fortuitous encounter with an Arab

Girl, the reader will (re-)visit the Temple of Western modernity and explore a

city ruled by Towers of dialectical forces, carrying a hermeneutical Ring that

combines dialectics, Islamic studies, and media theory. This interdisciplinary

approach will not only enrich our knowledge of the ‘aqd but also make it more

understandable as a cultural and social construction to which both Muslims

and non-Muslims have participated in forging its multiple representations. By

inviting the readers ‘to know who they are’ while looking at her, the Arab Girl

is already waiting for us to listen to the Islamic contract in a new way.

By applying a distinctive law and religion approach to the study of the

contract in Islam, the book provides a comprehensive exploration of a topic

that is of interest to legal and economic comparatists as well as to readers in

anthropology, Islamic and cultural studies, and it is also of topical meaning for

today’s international lawyers and the operators of an increasingly multicultural

and transnational market.