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Sloan-White: Corporate Islam [a6cfa0b8]

Tags: books, islamic jurisprudence, islamic jurisprudence lecture 3

Sloane-White, Patricia. Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. doi.org/10.1017/9781316875605.

  • Distinguishes zakat between zakat al-mal and zakat al-fitrah
  • what are the possibilities of corruption in zakat based insitutions?
  • strange interpretaion of zakat on income taxes?
  • using human capital accumulation as the safety valve for capitalism instead of wealth accumluation?
  • zakat as an economic motivator - banks can't hold onto large cash reserves since zakat eats away at it
  • are there interest rates in malaysia?
  • corporations - are they people? are they assets? what about non-public corporations?
  • this discussion cannot be separated from interest rates
  • zakat as tax writeoffs, what about zakat during the 1997 asian financial crisis?
  • paper trail, does the paper trail aspect of htis makes it so that the increased transparency puts up greater barriers?
  • most of these new charities work to solidify the status quo, is this a status based thinking of zakat?
  • crowding out the local NGO's, creating a sense of who is poor and who is not