Corporate Islam
Sharia and the Modern Workplace

This compelling account offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation.

Patricia Sloane-White (Author)

9781316635452, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 November 2018

248 pages, 2 b/w illus.
22.9 x 15.7 x 1.4 cm, 0.3 kg

'Corporate Islam is a much-needed text on the contemporary engagement of economy with sharia and its demands and outcomes for both producers and consumers in the economy. The ethnography, which is rich and authoritative, highlights the distinctiveness of the Malaysian case … and it is sure to influence future scholars in the field for many years to come.' Sarah A. Tobin, Islamic Law and Society

Compelling and original, this book offers a unique insight into the modern Islamic corporation, revealing how power, relationships, individual identities, gender roles, and practices - and often massive financial resources - are mobilized on behalf of Islam. Focusing on Muslims in Malaysia, Patricia Sloane-White argues that sharia principles in the region's Islamic economy produce a version of Islam that is increasingly conservative, financially and fiscally powerful, and committed to social control over Muslim and non-Muslim public and private lives. Packed with fascinating details, the book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Islamic politics and culture in modern life.

1. Corporate Islam
2. The scholar-elites of sharia: men of the mosque and the market
3. The corporate elites of sharia
4. Sharia divisions of labor: khalifah and God's 'human resources'
5. How divisions of labor are gendered: sharia, women, and the priviliges of men
6. Zakat and its transformations: a pillar of corporate Islam
7. Islamic corporate social responsibility and the 'public good'
8. Corporate lives, sharia, and the 'small Islamic state'.

Subject Areas: International business [KJK], Economics [KC], Religious & theocratic ideologies [JPFR], Anthropology [JHM], Sociology [JHB], Sociology & anthropology [JH]