Catalogue 2012 - GB Gerakbudaya

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Islam
New New
A Chinese Life of Islam
The Search for Identity
Yamin Cheng
Most Malaysian Muslims of Chinese
descent today are converts to Islam.
They are a legacy of their own, having
no ancestral links to any Islamic roots
in China. Malaysian Chinese who
come to Islam are from all kinds of
backgrounds. Some received their
education in Chinese, some in Malay,
and some in English. Some have
lifestyles influenced by their Chinese
heritage, while some lean more towards the Malay culture,
and some towards the Western way of life. It is therefore
hard to characterize their Chinese Muslim identity. They
want to be Muslim, remain Chinese, appear Malaysian,
and accept what may best contribute to the well-being
of their Muslim identity, including from the West. Being
a group of Muslims who are Chinese yet Malaysian but
with no ancestral roots of Islam in China, the Malaysian
Chinese Muslims are faced with the task of carving their
identity in this country. They are faced with this question:
How am I a Muslim, yet Chinese and appear Malaysian?
Publisher: The Other Press
2012: 90 pp
ISBN: 9789839541793: RM21.00 / S$14.70
New
Ottoman Connections to the Malay
World
Islam, Law and Society
Edited by Saim Kayadibi
This book constitutes a study of
Southeast Asia, discussing the Malay
world’s long historical connection with
the Muslim people including the Rumi-
Turks, Hadramis and the Ottomans.
These connections reflect religious,
political and legal cooperations. It
also discusses the Ottomans’ policy
of pan-Islamism and the role of Sultan
Abdulhamid II in improving ties with the
Malay world and their scholars, rulers and heritage, in the
fight against Western colonial powers. In seven essays,
the contributors to this book discuss the early religiousintellectual
network in the region as well as the evolution
of the judicial and political systems.
Publisher: The Other Press
2011: 253 pp
ISBN: 9789839541779: RM39.00 / S$27.30
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Catalogue 2012
Capital and Profit Sharing in Islamic
Equity Financing
Issues and Prospects
Muhammad Abdurrahman Sadique
Due to significant changes that have taken
place in the nature and essence of money
and monetary value, and the dominance of
interest-based debt financing, the nature
of capital and sharing of profit and loss
have become complex issues. The book
analyses in detail the practical relevance of
these in the operation of Islamic financial
institutions, and attempts to provide some new insight on
the relevant Shari’ah regulations. The book studies capital
in joint ventures financed by Islamic banks, examining the
Shari’ah requirement regarding existence and presence
of capital at the outset of the venture in the context
of modern money, and exploring the admissibility of
converting debt into capital and equity ventures based on
non-monetary capital. It scrutinizes the method currently
used by Islamic banks for determining the profit sharing
ratio between the bank and the client, and suggests
possible alternatives in line with Shari’ah objectives.
The author also discusses at length various clauses
incorporated to modern equity financing agreements.
Publisher: The Other Press
2012: 173 pp
ISBN: 9789839541786: RM35.00 / S$24.50
New
Bediuzzaman Said Nursi
Author of the Risale-i Nur
Jason C. Myers
This first full-length English biography
of the great Turkish Muslim thinker and
reformer Bediuzzaman Said Nursi is based
on his own works and on accounts of those
who have known or met him. It describes
his life, works, and struggle, and places
Bediuzzaman’s ideas and activities in a
historical context. It describes his
enterprising and scholarly endeavours in the cause of the
Ottoman Empire, particularly in the areas of education,
constitutionalism, and Islamic unity. In the second part
of the book, it traces both Bediuzzaman’s silent struggle
through his commentary of the Qur’an collectively known
as Risale-i Nur, speaking out against the irreligion that
was officially propagated in the early years of the Turkish
Republic.
Publisher: Islamic Book Trust (IBT)
2011: 515 pp
ISBN: 9789675062865: RM60.00 / S$42.00