Recent social, political, and environmental upheavals have had a two-fold effect on the built environment in Third World countries. They have destroyed the traditional cultural structure in rural areas, which has led to homelessness and the marginalisation of entire communities, and large-scale urbanisation has become a powerful phenomenon of which the Islamic World is very much a part. Such global changes have had a dramatic impact on the Jury for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, whose selections for 1992 are presented here.
Architecture Beyond Architecture - Creativity and Social Transformations in Islamic Cultures
This volume features the projects entered for the 1995 Aga Khan Award for Architecture. An introductory chapter discusses the award and explores spirituality in buildings and contemporary society. The book includes descriptions of the winning designs in Yemen, Tunisia, Pakistan, Senegal and India. Contributors include Charles Jencks, Peter Eisenman and Frank Gehry.
American Assassin – Novel by Vince Flynnby Vince Flynn
Prior to becoming a CIA superagent, Rapp was attending Syracuse University along with his girl friend. When she is killed in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 the doors are open for his recruitment. This novel reveals Rapp’s early years and follows the formation of a new group of clandestine operatives headed by Irene Kennedy as they seek to stem the rise of Islamic terrorism before it reaches American shores. Read by George Guidall. Unabridged.
Explores the theoretical and practical features, recent developments and future prospects of interest-free banking, illustrated by a detailed analysis of the past twenty-five years of the interest-free banking movement in Pakistan (1980-2005). It helps the reader to understand the model underpinning interest-free banking, based on principles of free market mechanism, efficiency, ethical investment and socio-economic justice. And it assesses the practical success of interest-free banking at individual Islamic banks and at state level, as in the case of Pakistan.
Risk Management in Islamic Finance: An Analysis of Derivatives Instruments in Commodity Markets
This study addresses derivatives instruments in Islamic finance. It highlights the benefits of these instruments, their legal aspects and the appropriate alternatives. The forward, futures and options contracts in commodity markets are discussed and the arguments in favour of and against these instruments examined.
