The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier

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ID10409708
AuthorsJennie Poon (0000-0001-7449-4064, corresponding author), Jessie P H Poon (Department of Geography, University at Buffalo – SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA.), Jane Pollard (0000-0002-3659-7473, Newcastle University), Yew Wah Chow (Business Department, University at Buffalo – SUNY, Buffalo, NY, USA.), Michael Ewers (0000-0003-1240-0522, Social and Economic Survey Research Institute (SESRI), Qatar University, Doha, Qatar.)
Year2016
Volume51
Issue10
Pages1443-1453
Publication date2016-09-16
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueRegional Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00343404.2016.1214254
OpenAlexW2519190007
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited32

The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers a frontier positioning that facilitates new social practices from the integration of financial knowledge of Western world cities and Shariah authority claimed by Gulf cities. Based on primary data, the paper shows that transnational, transcultural alliances forged through skills of mediation and compromise among the city’s Islamic talents and Shariah scholars favourably connect separate economic and cultural spheres of knowledge

Business · Compromise · Economics · Economy · Frontier · Geography · Islam · Kuala lumpur · Mediation · Middle East · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Asian Studies and History · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Law · Marketing · Socioeconomic Development in Asia

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