Islam and capitalism in the making of modern Bahrain /
"In recent decades, the culture, society, politics, and economics, indeed the national identities, of Bahrain have been transformed, driving its global ambitions while retaining, to a degree, the rule of law and cosmopolitanism. Bahrain has sought to liberate the economy and business through th...
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Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- titlepage
- copyright
- dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: In the Shadow of Ethical Capitalism""2014The State, Law, Oil, and the Economic Transformation of Bahrain
- 2 Land, Waqf, Ma'tam, and the Moral Economy
- 3 Islamic Banking in Bahrain: Religious Principles and Economic Performance
- 4 The Bahrain Stock Market: Law, Growth, and Performance
- 5 The Stock Market: Dynamics of Socially Responsible Oil and Gold
- 6 The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008 on the Bahrain Economy
- 7 Bahrain's Arab Spring
- 8 A Place for the State
- 9 Transnational Trading Networks
- 10 Labour Regimes, Mobility, Productivity, and Migrant National Workers
- 11 Economic Diversification
- 12 Ethics of Environment: Climate Crisis in the Age of Market Forces
- 13 Conclusion: Bahrain the Aspiring Hegemon in the Infernal Middle East
- Arabic-English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index