Corporate Islam - Sharia and the Modern Workplace

This compelling account offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation.

List of contents

1. Corporate Islam; 2. The scholar-elites of sharia: men of the mosque and the market; 3. The corporate elites of sharia; 4. Sharia divisions of labor: khalifah and God's 'human resources'; 5. How divisions of labor are gendered: sharia, women, and the priviliges of men; 6. Zakat and its transformations: a pillar of corporate Islam; 7. Islamic corporate social responsibility and the 'public good'; 8. Corporate lives, sharia, and the 'small Islamic state'.

About the author

Patricia Sloane-White is an associate professor of anthropology and chair of Women and Gender Studies with joint appointments in Asian Studies and Islamic Studies at the University of Delaware. She is a social anthropologist with a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. She has researched Islam, capitalism, entrepreneurship, and corporate business in Malaysia for over two decades. She was a recipient of a Fulbright Research Fellowship to Malaysia in 2008–9 and a Fulbright Specialist Scholar to Malaysia in 2010. In addition to her previous book, Islam, Modernity and Entrepreneurship among the Malays (1999), she has published numerous articles on the Malay middle class, gender, sharia, and the Muslim workplace.

Summary

Compelling and original, this book offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation, revealing how power, relationships, individual identities, gender roles, and practices - and often massive financial resources - are mobilized on behalf of Islam.

Product details

• Authors: Patricia Sloane-White, Patricia (University of Delaware) Sloane-White, Sloane-White Patricia
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781316635452
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63545-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Islamic Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Relating to Islamic / Muslim people and groups, Social groups: religious groups and communities