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title: "Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism"
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# Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism

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## Customer Reviews

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    Religion and profits
  

*by A***A on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 23, 2010*

An excellent scholarly book.  Great detail and very in depth analysis.  Inevitable conclusion is the impossibility of molding an economic system out of a moral philosophy, not just Islam.  That is where the problem with traditional Islamic thought arises, for most of its adherents, Islam is not just a set of moral principles but a way of life, dictating every aspect of it.  Unavoidably, there was much effort by Islamists to set up a distinct system of banking and economy based on pure Islamic traditions.  Prof. Kuran delves into the history of these movements, but he does more than that, he puts all this in cultural and political context.  At the end, he bravely expands more on the general failure of Islamic culture and tradition to bring wealth and prosperity to the masses that follow it.  Writing is very formal, not the easiest read and surley apporpriate only for the truly intersted in the general topic, but it was well worth it for this reader.

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    Superb scholarship
  

*by A***N on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on December 20, 2007*

The central and most important point in this highly useful volume is that Islamic finance is an "invented tradition," which empowers Islamic radicals. Now, coming as it does from the University of Southern California King Faisal Professor of Islamic Thought, that statement represents years of study, and a great deal of courage."Neither classical nor medieval Islamic civilization featured banks in the modern sense, let alone `Islamic' banks...," Kuran continues.Western securities and banking regulators, legislators, bankers, money managers and securities lawyers, take note: Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan al-Banna concocted the idea of Islamic banking in the 1920s to unite Muslims in one global Islamic nation (umma), to create a parallel financial system, and ultimately to help reestablish a global Islamic empire, subservient to shari'a law.These and many other such facts are things that radical sheiks and  "shari'a finance scholars" do not want readers to know. Which is why anyone even remotely interested in shari'a finance should purchase and read this book, and keep it on their desk. It's invaluable.--Alyssa A. Lappen

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    conspiracy theorist
  

*by R***R on Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 26, 2006*

The author is very likely a Kurdish nationalist, not implausibly a quite supporter of the PKK. As a Communist, he has no room for religion. His analysis is misleading, basically he runs after Muslims under the banner of Islamism, he seeks to undermine the Islamic religion to satisfy his own psychological needs. The author has suppervised the work of others who also claimed to have proved that Islam does not work. The author does not use objective scientific methods, he basically writes in a way that confirms his own priori conclusions. Read the book, if you wish, but with such qualifications in mind. You may read it to understand how the bigot's mind actually works.

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