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An Islamic Perspective on Economic and Social Justice
Get PDFThe Muslim world has a proud tradition of providing economic and social justice to their diverse citizenry during their ubiquitous leadership of the early Islamic period. To be relevant today and into the future, however, developing Muslim societies will need to re-examine their currently Euro-centric understanding and model of social advancement and strive to serve global equity through a more balanced philosophy, one that acknowledges their rich cultural heritage whilst simultaneously embracing the need for modernisation and economic advancement.
Thus, the contemporary strategist in the Arab and Muslim world needs to reflect on the contribution to development of civilisation of early Islamic scholars. The principles for good governance - knowledge, justice, wisdom and tolerance, for example, were articulated by Al- Ghazzȃli nearly a millennium ago and have great resonance today.
This paper proposes a paradigm shift in social and economic ethics, inspired by early Muslim practitioners, for creating sustainable, just and moderate Islamic societies in the twenty-first century. It further demonstrates the ability of growing knowledge economies in the Muslim world, to adapt economically and socially, by implementing traditional Islamic ethical guidelines to achieve sustainable growth
‘Why I Was Right to Name the Teacher’s Teen Killer’: Naming Teenagers in Criminal Trials and Law Reform in the Internet Age
Get PDFArgues that the law is unclear and possibly out-dated in respect of reporting restrictions and anonymity orders concerning children and young people, particularly in the Internet age and with different laws on juvenile reporting in Scotland under devolved legislation. Section 39 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933 (CYPA) imposes an automatic restriction on any identification of children and young persons under the age of 18 (England and Wales) involved in any court proceedings. The statutory aim of the 1933 Act was to protect children’s very basic physical needs, recognised children as individuals with rights and had at its forefront the rehabilitation of young offenders. The Human Rights Act 1998 (HRA) and European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) have enabled the law of confidence to develop to protect a child’s right to life (under art 2 ECHR) and his or her right not to be subjected to torture or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment (under art 3 ECHR) which would arguably include anonymity orders on reporting on young criminals under the age of 18. Arguably, it is then absolutely right and in the interest of justice that section 39 orders are strictly applied and upheld by the courts; not only involving child killers but also post-release in order to uphold the rehabilitative principle enshrined in the CYPA. For full text article click on the journal citation or website link – available subject to subscriptio
Rational atrocities and state formation: A game theoretic approach to the case of ISIS
Get PDFSince Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi announced in April 2013 the formation of the new Islamic polity, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), it has slowly become the epitome of terror. Certain acts of violence and atrocities committed by ISIS create the impression that it is acting out of blind, destructive religious fanaticism. In contrast, this article argues that this perception is but media-driven speculation. Instead of being religious zealots, ordering the purposeless killing of infidels, ISIS’ actions are governed by a strong rationale and a clear aim, namely the creation of a state, moreover one that extends beyond the traditional constitutive elements of statehood. In particular, ISIS’ rationality serves the purpose of consolidating an Islamic State in the Middle Eastern region, and beyond, under a Caliphate with a claim to universal governance and jurisdiction. This article illustrates the mechanisms which ISIS uses to achieve its aim of establishing an extended state, and it elaborates on the impact of actions and policies against ISIS on the basis of an evolutionary game theoretic model
The Validity and Viability of a Waqf Based Banking Model in the UK
Get PDFThis research aims to explore the prospects and challenges of setting up a Waqf bank, particularly in a Muslim minority country such as the UK. The study employs a primarily qualitative research paradigm, via interviews of experts in the area, but also incorporates some secondary data analysis. It explores the financial, regulatory and structural requirements of a Waqf bank, focussing particularly on the legal environment of the UK
‘Delmore Schwartz: A Critical Reassessment’ (review)
Get PDFA review article on *Delmore Schwartz: A Critical Reassessment* by Alex Runchma
Randomizing bipartite networks: the case of the World Trade Web
Get PDFWithin the last fifteen years, network theory has been successfully applied both to natural sciences and to socioeconomic disciplines. In particular, bipartite networks have been recognized to provide a particularly insightful representation of many systems, ranging from mutualistic networks in ecology to trade networks in economy, whence the need of a pattern detection-oriented analysis in order to identify statistically-significant structural properties. Such an analysis rests upon the definition of suitable null models, i.e. upon the choice of the portion of network structure to be preserved while randomizing everything else. However, quite surprisingly, little work has been done so far to define null models for real bipartite networks. The aim of the present work is to fill this gap, extending a recently-proposed method to randomize monopartite networks to bipartite networks. While the proposed formalism is perfectly general, we apply our method to the binary, undirected, bipartite representation of the World Trade Web, comparing the observed values of a number of structural quantities of interest with the expected ones, calculated via our randomization procedure. Interestingly, the behavior of the World Trade Web in this new representation is strongly different from the monopartite analogue, showing highly non-trivial patterns of self-organization