Islam and the Spirits of Capitalism
Competing Articulations of the Islamic Economy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2317399 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aisalkyn Botoeva (Harvard Law School, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-264 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Politics & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0032-3292 • E-ISSN: 1552-7514 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032329218776014 |
| OpenAlex | W2804504483 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
Why has the Islamic economy, as a model of socioeconomic development, gained traction as a viable option? The existing literature suggests that the Islamic economy has been popularized by a combination of factors, including anticolonial movements, a global renewal of religiosity, and the activities of new social strata who merge piety with capitalist orientations. These approaches, however, tend to homogenize social actors, subsuming them under the overarching label of Islamism. In contrast, this article employs the lens of "intra-hegemonic struggles" to identify three competing orientations of Islamism and their manifestation in the economy. Drawing on eighteen months of fieldwork in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, it argues that this contestation motivates diverse segments of the society to create and engage in the Islamic economy, rather than any single state-driven or identity-based movement. The article synthesizes three otherwise isolated bodies of work: the political sociology of articulation, new theories of Islamism, and the concept of imaginaries from economic sociology
Articulation (sociology) · Capitalism · Economic system · Economics · Economy · Islam · Piety · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Religiosity · Sociology · Islamic Finance and Banking Studies · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Religion, Society, and Development
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2025 (6) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 9 |