Rania Kamla
Heriot-Watt University
26 Papers
29 Citations
Rania Kamla is an academic researcher from Heriot-Watt University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Islam & Positive accounting. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 22 publications. Previous affiliations of Rania Kamla include University of Aberdeen & University of Dundee.
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Papers
Islam, nature and accounting: Islamic principles and the notion of accounting for the environment
TL;DR: In this paper, the notion of accounting for the environment has been explored in the context of Islamic principles of relevance and what they suggest for accounting, and the irony is that Western transnational corporations have sought to promote their particular brand of corporate social (and environmental) responsibility accounting in Arab countries, variously influenced by Islam, with little to no mention of a notion of accountability integral to and deeply rooted in Islam.
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Critically Appreciating Social Accounting and Reporting in the Arab MiddleEast: A Postcolonial Perspective
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the actuality and potentiality of social accounting manifestations in the Arab Middle East from a critical and post-colonial perspective, and concluded that social accounting manifestation in the AME are largely orientated towards "repressive/counter radical" positions of accounting.
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Syrian women accountants' attitudes and experiences at work in the context of globalization
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore how globalization is impacting on the experiences of Syrian women accountants working in the accounting and finance professions, and argue for the need to go beyond the politics of the hijab and to focus on broader socio-political, cultural and global conditions that are contributing to Syrian women's marginalization in the Accounting and Finance professions.
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Critical Muslim Intellectuals’ discourse and the issue of ‘Interest’ (ribā): Implications for Islamic accounting and banking
Rania Kamla,Rana Alsoufi +1 more
TL;DR: This article introduced and employed Critical Muslim Intellectuals' (CMIs) methodological approaches and debates to discuss the issue of bank-interest/ribā in Islam, and built specifically on Fazlur...
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Islamic accounting, neo-imperialism and identity staging: The Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions
Rania Kamla,Faizul Haque +1 more
TL;DR: The authors locates Islamic accounting within the wider context of globalisation and imperialism, focusing on the role played by AAOIFI in sustaining the imperialism-accounting nexus in key Islamic finance markets.
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