GPIS Dissertation Defense 5/0719

Old Dominion University

College of Arts and Letters

Graduate Program in International Studies

Dissertation Defense

Muhammad Rahman

AT THE HANDS OF FATE:

THE POLITICS OF ISLAMIC INSURANCE IN INDONESIA, MALAYSIA, AND PAKISTAN

C. 1980 TO THE PRESENT

Why have Islamic insurance systems developed well in some countries, but not in others? Malaysia is considered as Islamic insurance elite due to its relatively large number of operators it houses as well as the sustained growth of Islamic insurance sales within the country, while Indonesia and Pakistan are still in early stages of development. Analyzing the political and social history of Islamization of insurance systems in these three Muslim majority countries in Asia since 1980s, this dissertation demonstrates the development gap between these countries on Islamic insurance results from; firstly, complex bargains made between various groups within each country polity, and those bargains are structured by the country’s fundamental political institutions. Secondly, the gap is also an outcome of different societal transformations during the Islamization that ‘produce Islam(s)’ in these countries. The revival of Islamic principles in Muslim economic life does not merely produce Islamically regulated things but produces and emplaces Islamic norms, identities, ethics, and practices enacted in their economic life.

Dr. Francis Adams (Chair)

Dr. David Earnest (Univ. of South Dakota)

Dr. David Selover

Tuesday, May 7, 2019

10:30 AM

BAL 9024

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