Sohrab Behdad
Denison University
24 Papers
216 Citations
Sohrab Behdad is an academic researcher from Denison University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Islam & Ideology. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 24 publications.
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Papers
Property Rights in Contemporary Islamic Economic Thought: A Critical Perspective
TL;DR: In the past four decades, a growing segment of the political movements in the Muslim countries of the Third World has turned to Islamic ideology as its guiding principle as discussed by the authors, and the Islamic popular movements strive to establish an "Islamic economic sys? tem." The characteristics of this ideal economic system are elaborated by "Islamic economists" in the vast and diverse literature known as "Islamic".
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Winners and Losers of The Iranian Revolution: A Study in Income Distribution
TL;DR: The income inequality gap in pre-revolutionary Iran was no doubt a contributing factor to the mass mobilization of Iranians in the 1979 Revolution as mentioned in this paper, and the Resolution of the Ashura March (December 11, 1978) demanded the establishment of social justice, the right of workers and peasants to the full benefit from the product of their labor, and an end to any form of discrimination, exploitation, profiteering and economic domination which may result in the accumulation of great wealth, on the one hand, and deprivation and poverty on the other.
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Islamic versus Traditional Banking: Financial Innovation in Egypt
TL;DR: In this paper, Kazarian discusses the theoretical basis of Islamic banking and a review of the performance of Islamic banks in Egypt in the 1980s, concluding that Islamic banking is a feasible alternative to traditional (non-Islamic) banking in a modern capitalist economy.
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Islamic Utopia in Pre-Revolutionary Iran: Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam
TL;DR: The impact of Navvab Safavi and the Fada'ian-e Eslam on shaping a distinctly populist-utopian dimension in the Islamic revivalist movement in the revolution has received little attention.
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