Papers by Michaela Muscat Phd
Acknowledgments Glossary Acronyms Chapter 1: Islamic banking: global and local 1.1 Preamble: rele... more Acknowledgments Glossary Acronyms Chapter 1: Islamic banking: global and local 1.1 Preamble: relevance of the author's background 1.2 The historical preconditions 1.2.1 The historical prohibition of interest in Abrahamic religions 1.2.2 European capitalist incursions of 'Muslim societies' 1.2.3 The establishment of Islamic finance 1.2.4 The 1997-1998 South East Asian financial crisis 1.2.5 Responses to the crisis: Islamic finance as a political and economic fix 1.3 Explaining the growth of Islamic banking practices 1.3.1 Everyday Islamic banking practices 1.4 Research questions 1.4.1 The crystallisation of Islamic banking as an objective category 1.4.2 Generalised trust, shariah regulation and expertise 1.4.3 The role of family and peer relations in creating confidence in Islamic banking 1.5 Islamic banking practices and the sociology of everyday finance 1.6 The veiled politics of Islamic banking practices 1.7 Outline of the thesis Chapter 2: Theorising Islamic banking practices 2.1 Economic sociology's toolbox and Islamic banking 2.2 Economic sociology, consumption and culture 2.3 The limitations of orthodox economics 2.4 Embeddedness 2.5 Embedding Islamic banking 9 2.6 The unique cultural character of Islamic banking 2.7 Consuming Islamic banking products 2.8 Constructing regulatory boundaries 2.9 Trust and Islamic banking 2.10 Trust, modernity and Islamic banking 2.11 The state, co-optation of religious experts and Islamic banking 2.12 Personal ties, confidence and Islamic banking 2.13 Islam, the west and sociological analysis 2.14 Conclusion Chapter 3: Methodological Orientations 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Single Case: The Malaysia 3.2.1 Fieldwork site 3.3 Research design for an interpretative investigation 3.3.2 A note on 'ordinary people' and everyday practices 3.4 Grounded theory 3.5 Ideal types 3.6 Historical analysis 3.7 Document analysis 3.8 Preliminary desk-work 3.9 Pilot Interviews 3.10 'Getting in' 3.11 Sampling the snowball techniques 3.12 Semi-structured interviews with consumers 3.13 Expert interviews 3.14 Reflexivity and ethical considerations 3.15 'Face' in a Malaysian context Chapter 4: The preconditions of Islamic banking in Malaysia 4.1 Setting the scene 4.1.1 Expediencies and exigencies 4.2 The Kingdom of Malaysia 4.3 The essentialisation of Malayness 4.3.1 Colonial legacies and Islam 10 4.3.2 The origins of cultural rights for Malays 4.3.3 The state of emergency and deepening of inter-ethnic cleavages 4.3.4 Post-Merdeka (Independence) Malaysia 4.4 Affirmative action: The New Economic Policy 4.5 Islamisation 'from above': the bureaucratisation of Islam 4.5.1 Islamising the state 4.5.2 Islamocrats: the bureaucratisation of Islamic expertise 4.6 The increasing salience of Islam in everyday life 4.7 Ethnonationalist development 4.7.1 Bumiputera Capitalism 4.7.2 Homo Islamicus 4.8 Conclusion Chapter
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Papers by Michaela Muscat Phd