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Download or read book Pious Property written by Bill Maurer and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2006-01-09 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Owning a home has always been central to the American dream. For the more than one million Muslims in the United States, this is no exception. However, the Qur'an forbids the payment of interest, which places conventional home financing out of reach for observant Muslims. To meet the growing Muslim demand for home purchases, a market for home financing that would be halal, or permissible under Islamic law, has emerged. In Pious Property, anthropologist William Maurer profiles the emergence of this new religiously based financial service and explores the ways it reflects the influence of Muslim practices on American economic life and vice versa. Pious Property charts the development of Islamic mortgages in America, starting with Islamic interpretations of the prohibition against riba—literally translated as "increase" but interpreted as "usury" or "interest." Maurer then explores the different practices that have emerged as permissible options for Islamic homebuyers—such as lease-to-own arrangements, profit-loss sharing, and cost-plus contracts—and explains how they have gained acceptance in the Islamic community by relying on payment schemes that avoid standard interest rate payments. Using interviews with Muslim homebuyers and financiers, and in-depth analysis of two companies that provide mortgage alternatives to Muslims, Maurer discovers an interesting paradox: progressive Muslims tend to use financial contracts that seemingly comply better with the prohibition against interest, while traditional Muslims seem more inclined to take on financing very similar to interest-based mortgages. Maurer finds that Muslims make their decisions about using Islamic mortgage alternatives based not only on the views of religious scholars, but also on their conceptions of how business is supposed to be conducted in America. While one form of Islamic financing is seemingly more congruent with the prohibition against riba, the other exhibits more of the qualities of American mortgages—anonymity and standardized forms. The appearance that an Islamic financing instrument is legal and professional leaves many Muslim homebuyers with the impression that it is halal, revealing the influence of American capitalism on Muslim Americans' understanding of their religious rules. The market for halal financial products exists at the intersection of American and Islamic culture and is emblematic of the way that, for centuries, America's newcomers have adapted to and changed the fabric of American life. In Pious Property, William Maurer explores this rapidly growing economic phenomenon with historical perspective and scholarly insight.
Download or read book The Pious Sex written by Andrea Radasanu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2012-07-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Pious Sex strives to enlighten the reader with respect to the relationship between women and religion. The notion that there is a special relationship between women and piety may call to mind the worst of the prejudices associated with women over the ages: the characterization of women as superstitious and inherently irrational creatures who must be kept firmly in hand by the patriarchal establishment. The suggestion that there is a special relationship between women and piety conjures up the most oppressive picture of womanly virtue. The contributors of this volume revisit the claim that women constitute the pious sex and investigate the implications of such a designation. This collection of original essays examines the relationship between women and religion in the history of political thought broadly conceived. This theme is a remarkably revealing lens through which to view the Western philosophical and poetical traditions that have culminated in secular and egalitarian modern society. The essays also give highly analytical accounts of the manifold and intricate relationships between religion, family, and public life in the history of political thought, and the various ways in which these relationships have manifested themselves in pagan, Jewish, Christian, and post-Christian settings.
Book Synopsis Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States by : United States. Dept. of State
Download or read book Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States written by United States. Dept. of State and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 910 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Revised Statutes of the State of Maine, Passed August 29, 1883, and Taking Effect January 1, 1884 by : Maine
Download or read book The Revised Statutes of the State of Maine, Passed August 29, 1883, and Taking Effect January 1, 1884 written by Maine and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Revised Statutes of the State of Maine by : Maine
Download or read book The Revised Statutes of the State of Maine written by Maine and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Art and Knowledge by : James O. Young
Download or read book Art and Knowledge written by James O. Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Art and Knowledge argues that the experience of art is so rewarding because it can be an important source of knowledge about ourselves and our relation to each other and to the world.
Book Synopsis Desiring the Good by : Katja Maria Vogt
Download or read book Desiring the Good written by Katja Maria Vogt and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Desiring the Good defends a novel and distinctive approach in ethics that is inspired by ancient philosophy. Ethics, according to this approach, starts from one question and its most immediate answer: "what is the good for human beings?"--"a well-going human life." Ethics thus conceived is broader than moral philosophy. It includes a range of topics in psychology and metaphysics. Plato's Philebus is the ancestor of this approach. Its first premise, defended in Book I of Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, is that the final agential good is the good human life. Though Aristotle introduces this premise while analyzing human activities, it is absent from approaches in the theory of action that self-identify as Aristotelian. This absence, Vogt argues, is a deep and far-reaching mistake, one that can be traced back to Elizabeth Anscombe's influential proposals. And yet, the book is Anscombian in spirit. It engages with ancient texts in order to contribute to philosophy today, and it takes questions about the human mind to be prior to, and relevant to, substantive normative matters. In this spirit, Desiring the Good puts forward a new version of the Guise of the Good, namely that desire to have one's life go well shapes and sustains mid- and small-scale motivations. A theory of good human lives, it is argued, must make room for a plurality of good lives. Along these lines, the book lays out a non-relativist version of Protagoras's Measure Doctrine and defends a new kind of realism about good human lives.
Book Synopsis Maine Reports by : Maine. Supreme Judicial Court
Download or read book Maine Reports written by Maine. Supreme Judicial Court and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 668 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Daughters of London written by Kate Kelsey Staples and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-03-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an examination of medieval London's Husting wills, Daughters of London offers a new framework for considering urban women’s experiences as daughters. The wills reveal daughters equipped with economic opportunities through bequests of real estate and movable property.
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Book Synopsis Privy Council Judgments on Appeals from India by : Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee
Download or read book Privy Council Judgments on Appeals from India written by Great Britain. Privy Council. Judicial Committee and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Digest of Indian Law Cases by : Joseph Vere Woodman
Download or read book Digest of Indian Law Cases written by Joseph Vere Woodman and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine by : Maine. Supreme Judicial Court
Download or read book Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial Court of Maine written by Maine. Supreme Judicial Court and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Transactions written by Canadian Institute (1849-1914) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Transactions of the Canadian Institute by : Canadian Institute (1849-1914)
Download or read book Transactions of the Canadian Institute written by Canadian Institute (1849-1914) and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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