Muslim And The Moral Economy
Charles Tripp’s book “Muslim and the Moral Economy” shows how Muslim faithfuls are coping with the emerging challenges in the world today. According to the author, the main challenge that has faced Islam as a religion is the concept of capitalism. With reference to literary works of a number of great Muslim scholars, the author identifies how Muslims around the globe have devised mechanisms for upholding their faith in the wake of a culture that may not be suitable for their faith. The book revolves around ideas related to economics, the concept of socialism in the Islamic faith and the implicated perception on banking in Islam. In the book, it emerges that a number of Muslim faithful s have resolved to various ways of confronting these challenges .some of the ways are measured by innovation alongside ingenuity in the pursuit for an alternative way to face capitalism especially in the twenty first century.
In chapter five the author gives a description of how Islam has responded to emerging issues related to gender equality among both men and women and the concept of terrorism. These issues have been discussed in line with the Islamic response to the concept of capitalism. This is in line with the theme of the book that revolves around the response of Islamic nations to the concept of capitalism. Capitalism is a policy that poses as a major challenge to the economic well being of a number of Muslim nations. Terrorism according to the author in this chapter is a way of fighting back the effects of capitalism. With regard to the concept of gender equality, the author in this chapter argues that Islam has not yet come to a uniform opinion on the acceptance and identification of the role of a woman in the society (Tripp 176).
The issues depicted in the fifth chapter and their relevance to the entire book.
The author in this chapter discusses how a number of Muslim nations have resolved to handling the effects of capitalism. Muslim has for ages critised capitalism especially with the brutality with which this concept has exploited a number of Muslim nations. This chapter identifies that capitalism is not only a challenge to Muslim nations but also a big challenge to Muslim intellectuals. The author thus draws a number of findings from various Muslim intellectuals depicting on the negative side of capitalism. This chapter identifies that terrorism is fostered as a way of rejecting and fighting back capitalism. The practice of Islam is hampered by the translation of concepts to fit in to real life. In this chapter the author identifies that Muslim as a religion is yet to find the role of a woman in the society, the author therefore argues that the female individual in the Islamic has not been given any equal opportunities like the male individual (Tripp 178).
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