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  2. Islamic economics - Wikipedia

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    Islamic economics grew naturally from the Islamic revival and political Islam whose adherents considered Islam to be a complete system of life in all its aspects, rather than a spiritual formula [86] and believed that it logically followed that Islam must have an economic system, unique from and superior to non-Islamic economic systems.

  3. Islamic banking and finance - Wikipedia

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    The concept of profit acts as a symbol in Islam as equal sharing of profits, losses, and risks. The movement started with activists and scholars such as Anwar Qureshi, [ 33 ] Naeem Siddiqui , [ 34 ] Abul A'la Maududi , Muhammad Hamidullah , in the late 1940 and early 1950s. [ 35 ]

  4. History of Islamic economics - Wikipedia

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    Between the 9th and 14th centuries, the Muslim world developed many advanced economic concepts, techniques and usages. These ranged from areas of production, investment, finance, economic development, taxation, property use such as Hawala: an early informal value transfer system, Islamic trusts, known as waqf, systems of contract relied upon by merchants, a widely circulated common currency ...

  5. Muslims - Wikipedia

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    With about 1.8 billion followers (2015), almost a quarter of earth's population, [111] Islam is the second-largest and the fastest-growing religion in the world, [112] primarily due to the young age and high fertility rate of Muslims, [113] with Muslims having a rate of (3.1) compared to the world average of (2.5).

  6. Werner Sombart - Wikipedia

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    Werner Sombart (/ ˈ v ɜːr n ər ˈ z ɒ m b ɑːr t /; German: [ˈzɔmbaʁt]; 19 January 1863 – 18 May 1941) was a German economist, historian and sociologist.Head of the "Youngest Historical School," he was one of the leading Continental European social scientists during the first quarter of the 20th century.

  7. Modal adverbs - Wikipedia

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    Modal adverbs often appear as clause-initial adjuncts, and have scope over the whole clause, [4] as in (1) with the adverb in bold. Probably, the biggest push for corruption prosecutions came in the mid-2000s. This has the same meaning as (2) with the paraphrase using the modal adjective (in bold).

  8. Muhammad Ali Jinnah - Wikipedia

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    After his death, his relatives and other witnesses claimed that he had converted in later life to the Sunni sect of Islam. [3] Jinnah was from a wealthy merchant background. His father was a merchant and was born to a family of textile weavers in the village of Paneli in the princely state of Gondal; his mother was from the nearby village of ...

  9. Modal verb - Wikipedia

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    A modal verb is a type of verb that contextually indicates a modality such as a likelihood, ability, permission, request, capacity, suggestion, order, obligation, necessity, possibility or advice. Modal verbs generally accompany the base (infinitive) form of another verb having semantic content. [ 1 ]