Understanding the differences in the Islamic and Christian view of interest requires coming to terms not with the acts constitutive of the practice but the meaning of the practice in two different views of what an economy produces and delivers. The difference in the norms that govern interest...

Argues that there exists, at least at the level of social practices, a type of social or public philosophy that identifies and gives meaning to the values dynamizing social interactions. That is, the “public philosophy” consists of a continuous discourse about the “good”. It is to this...