(Ebook) Religion and Contract Law in Islam: From Medieval Trade to Global Finance by Valentino Cattelan ISBN 9781315145761, 9781138504042, 1315145766, 1138504041

(Ebook) Religion and Contract Law in Islam: From Medieval Trade to Global Finance by Valentino Cattelan ISBN 9781315145761, 9781138504042, 1315145766, 1138504041

What is a contract in Islam? Is it an aspect of Muslim religion or of secularlife? How much has it changed over the centuries? Undertaking a search thatspans revelation, legal tradition, and the reality of the Muslim world, this bookexplores the Islamic contract (‘aqd in Arabic) as a ‘city’ at the crossroads ofconvergent paths of translation, comparison, and law in context.In particular, the book shows that only by re-orienting traditional categoriesof Western law-religion toward the East can an alternative path of discoveryfor the ‘aqd be advanced. Hence, through a fortuitous encounter with an ArabGirl, the reader will (re-)visit the Temple of Western modernity and explore acity ruled by Towers of dialectical forces, carrying a hermeneutical Ring thatcombines dialectics, Islamic studies, and media theory. This interdisciplinaryapproach will not only enrich our knowledge of the ‘aqd but also make it moreunderstandable as a cultural and social construction to which both Muslimsand non-Muslims have participated in forging its multiple representations. Byinviting the readers ‘to know who they are’ while looking at her, the Arab Girlis 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 thecontract in Islam, the book provides a comprehensive exploration of a topicthat is of interest to legal and economic comparatists as well as to readers inanthropology, Islamic and cultural studies, and it is also of topical meaning fortoday’s international lawyers and the operators of an increasingly multiculturaland transnational market.