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Banking : The Root Cause of the Injustices of Our Time

Abdalhalim Orr(Auth.) · Abdassamad Clarke(Auth.)
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The original 1987 Norwich seminar Usury: The Root Cause of the Injustices of Our Time, whose proceedings form the core of this work, had an extraordinary effect.

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The original 1987 Norwich seminar Usury: The Root Cause of the Injustices of Our Time, whose proceedings form the core of this work, had an extraordinary effect. After the endless analyses and altercations of left and right to which we were accustomed, here was an argument that went to the core of the matter in one bound, and yet did so with a degree of scholarship and indeed erudition that was not cavalier. The result was electric. It was also well before its time.

This book contains the texts of the original lectures as well as some contemporary material that updates it. The 80’s material was remarkably prescient, as the reader will discover. However, history has furnished us another opportunity – the catastrophic bank collapses of 2008 and the impending total systems shutdown of 2009 – to revisit this vital material and place it before the reader.

Whatever the result of the signal events of 2008-9 – a slide into depression, cataclysmic upheaval or a rebound into dynamic activity – the argument in this work still stands: Usury is demonstrably the motor of the injustices of our age. That is the bad news, whose necessary corollary, a delineation of the way out of our global predicament, this book explores.

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Abdassamad Clarke: Abdassamad Clarke is a scholar, translator and author from Carrickfergus in Ulster. He was formally educated in Mathematics and Physics at Edinburgh University and subsequently studied Arabic, tajwid and Islamic sciences in Cairo. He accepted Islam in 1973 at the hands of Shaykh Dr. Abdalqadir as-Sufi. In the 1980s he served as secretary to the Imam of the Dublin Mosque, Shaykh Yahya Muhammad al-Hussein, and in the early 1990s served as imam khatib of the Norwich Mosque, where he later served again as imam and teacher. During his time in Dublin he wrote as a freelance journalist for the Irish Times, Irish Press, Sunday Press, The Phoenix, Common Ground and The Aisling, contributing articles on Islam, banking, usury, and alternative currencies. He has translated a number of classical Arabic works, including chapters on the Khulafa ar-Rashidun from as-Suyuti's Tarikh al-Khulafa', al-Nawawi's The Complete Forty Hadith, and The Compendium of Knowledge and Wisdom. He co-authored with the late Abdarrahman I. Doi the second edition of Shariah - Islamic Law. He has served as Dean and Rector of the Muslim Faculty of Advanced Studies in Norwich.

Specifications
EAN 13 / ISBN 9781842001103
Publisher Diwan Press
Author Abdalhalim Orr and Abdassamad Clarke
Pages 191
Year Published 2009
Size W-5.8 in | H-8.1 in | D-0.7 in
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