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The authors identify a significant blind spot in modern Islamic economics, noting that contemporary Muslim jurists have historically ignored the concept of a universal, unconditional cash transfer. This silence stems from a long-standing academic preoccupation with targeted, faith-based wealth redistribution mechanisms like Zakāh and Sadaqah, which are structurally designed for ...

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In The Great Escape: Health, Wealth, and the Origins of Inequality, Nobel Laureate Angus Deaton provides a sweeping historical analysis of humanity’s remarkable progress in overcoming poverty and deprivation. Prof. Deaton frames this journey as a massive, ongoing escape from the historical traps of high infant mortality, frequent famines, and pervasive destitution. Driven primar...

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The global Islamic financial services industry reached $4.4 trillion in assets in 2025, with growth in banking, capital markets, and insurance sectors. Islamic banking remains dominant, but non-banking segments are growing faster. The industry is concentrated in GCC and EAP regions (75% of assets). Sukuk markets expanded to $1.10 trillion, with strong growth in sustainability an...

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For many consumers, halal simply means avoiding pork and alcohol. Yet in today’s globalised world of complex supply chains, food technology, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and automated manufacturing, determining whether a product is genuinely halal has become far more challenging.

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The methodological contribution of Shaikh (2026) is to formulate, more sharply than most of the literature, the choice between an assimilative economics that prices the sacred and a distinctive economics that abandons the analytical, and to argue - on the strength of World Values Survey evidence of broadly shared moral and market attitudes - that the discipline should occupy nei...

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