In Against the gods: the remarkable story of risk (1996), Peter L. Bernstein illustrates how the mastery of risk has driven modern Western society into converting 'the future from an enemy into an opportunity'. Far from being an antagonist, as the unpredictable whim of gods or mysterious fate,...

This article discusses Islamic economics by applying a legal plural approach to property rights: more precisely, it argues that Islamic economics embodies a property theory that is alternative to the conventional one and that this property theory gives rise to a paradigm of economic justice that...

This article deals with the notion of property (māl) and the conceptualization of credit relations in Islamic law by investigating the dyad 'ayn/dayn and highlighting the functional linkage between dayn (debt/credit) and dhimma (legal personality). More precisely, in accordance with the...

This paper suggests a juridical interpretation of the prohibitions of ribā, gharar and maysir through the outline of the concept of ‘right', haqq, in Muslim law. The approach provides a comprehension of the bans alternative to its religious/moral understanding which is still prevalent in...