The Use of Faith Power in The Shariah Economic Movement
Publication information:
Ullah, Karim. 2023. “The Use of Faith Power in The Shariah Economic Movement.” in Uses and Abuses of Power in Alternative Spiritualities. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Abstract
Abstract: In this paper, I intend to present my eight years of ethnographic experience with Islamic economic movement and the use of faith power in it. I observed a more trade based approach in the Middle East and a more endowment based approaches in Turkiye and South Asia, having historical inspirations from the trade histories in the Middle East and Waqfs as power enterprises, inspiring from the Mughal and Othman empires in South Asia and Turkiye. My experience with Shariah economics in these three regions and my observations associated with contemporary practices in other regions, informing how faith centres consuming out the capitalistic economic culture and the opposite is happening too.
Presenter bio: Karim Ullah is Tenured Associate Professor at Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He has a PhD from Brunel University London UK on complexity of Shariah economic and finance services. He has more than 13 years of ethnographic experience while researching, consultaning, and teaching on Shariah economics and finance. He also won and implemented multiple grants, which included a team lead of waning competitive financial innovation challenge fund of the State Bank of Pakistan and UK DFID to establishment of the Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance, Institute of Management Sciences (CEIF IMSciences). Government of Pakistan, Higher Education Commission has awarded him twice for two of his books on Islamic finance have been declared as the country best books of the years, 2015 and 2017, respectively. Karim has multiple papers in Islamic and participatory economics and finance and he regularly present his research in countries that include US, UK, Turkiye, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and UAE Karim.Ullah@imsciences.edu.pk
Affiliation: PhD on the complixity of shariah economics and finance, Brunel University London, UK. Postdoctrate on the Othomans and Mughals use of Shariah sprituality in economics, Sakarya University, Turkiye. Tenured Associate Professor and Founder of the Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance. A joint project of UK's department for International Development and Central Bank of Pakistan, and Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan.
Presenter bio: Karim Ullah is Tenured Associate Professor at Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan. He has a PhD from Brunel University London UK on complexity of Shariah economic and finance services. He has more than 13 years of ethnographic experience while researching, consultaning, and teaching on Shariah economics and finance. He also won and implemented multiple grants, which included a team lead of waning competitive financial innovation challenge fund of the State Bank of Pakistan and UK DFID to establishment of the Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance, Institute of Management Sciences (CEIF IMSciences). Government of Pakistan, Higher Education Commission has awarded him twice for two of his books on Islamic finance have been declared as the country best books of the years, 2015 and 2017, respectively. Karim has multiple papers in Islamic and participatory economics and finance and he regularly present his research in countries that include US, UK, Turkiye, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and UAE Karim.Ullah@imsciences.edu.pk
Affiliation: PhD on the complixity of shariah economics and finance, Brunel University London, UK. Postdoctrate on the Othomans and Mughals use of Shariah sprituality in economics, Sakarya University, Turkiye. Tenured Associate Professor and Founder of the Centre for Excellence in Islamic Finance. A joint project of UK's department for International Development and Central Bank of Pakistan, and Institute of Management Sciences, Pakistan.