Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-254) and indexes.
The new politics of Islam : pan-Islamic foreign policy in a world of states / Naveed Shahzad Sheikh -- The Alevis in Turkey : the emergence of a secular Islamic tradition / David Shankland -- Medieval Islamic economic thought : filling the great gap in European economics / S.M. Ghazanfar -- The West and Islam -- Western liberal democracy versus the system of Shura / Mishal Fahm al-Sulami -- The regency of Tunis and the Ottoman Porte, 1777-1814 : army and government of a North-African Eyâlet at the end of the eighteenth century / Asma Moalla -- Islamic insurance : a modern approach to Islamic banking / Aly Khorshid -- The small players of the great game : the settlement of Iran's eastern borderlands and the creation Afghanistan / Pirouz Mojtahed-Zadeh -- Interest in Islamic economics : understanding Riba / Abdulkader Thomas -- Islam in Nordic and Baltic countries / Göran Larsson -- Islam and disability : perspectives in theology and jurisprudence / Mohammed Ghaly.
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Explores the position of Islamic theology and jurisprudence towards people with disabilities. This book seeks to reconcile their existence with the concept of a merciful God, and also looks at how this group might live a dignified and productive life within an Islamic context.