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Legal Pluralism, Property Rights and the Paradigm of Islamic Economics التعددية القانونية وحقوق الملكية والنموذج الإرشادي للاقتصاد الإسلامي

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  • Valentino Cattelan

    (Associate Researcher, Saudi-Spanish Center for Islamic Economics and Finance IE Business School, Madrid (Spain))

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This article discusses Islamic economics by applying a legal plural approach to property rights: more precisely, it argues that Islamic economics embodies a property theory that is alternative to the conventional one and that this property theory gives rise to a paradigm of economic justice that is unique to Islam. The reasoning proceeds as follows. (§ 1) After introducing its subject-matter, (§ 2) the article reviews the moral approach to Islamic economics, and (§ 3) challenges through legal pluralism the neutrality and universality of conventional property rights, as commonly assumed by law and economics literature. (§ 4) Subsequently, it identifies the uniqueness of Islamic property rights in the light of the distinctive conceptualization of legal, commutative and distributive justice that belongs to Islam. (§ 5) To conclude, the study highlights how the unique paradigm of Islamic economics can contribute to the promotion of a “plural market” in the global economy. تتناول هذه المقالة الاقتصاد الإسلامي من خلال مقاربة قانونية متنوعة لحقوق الملكية. وتقرِّر المقالة بالتحديد أنّ الاقتصاد الإسلامي يُجسِّد نظرية للملكية بديلة للنظرية التقليدية، وتحمل هذه النظرية في طياتها نموذجاً للعدالة الاقتصادية يعدُّ من الخصائص الفريدة للإسلام. وتتناول المقالة هذه القضية على النحو التالي: بعد التعريف بالموضوع (الفقرة 1)، تقوم باستعراض المقاربة الأخلاقية للاقتصاد الإسلامي (الفقرة 2). ثم تدحض -من خلال التعددية القانونية- فكرة حيادية وعالمية الحقوق الملكية التقليدية، كما هو مفترض غالباً في أدبيات القانون والاقتصاد (الفقرة 3)، كما تُبيِّن تَفرُّد حقوق الملكية الإسلامية في ضوء المفاهيم المتميزة للعدالة القانونية والتوزيعة والتبادلية، وهي من خصائص الإسلام (الفقرة 4). في الخاتمة يُسلّط الضوء على إمكانية إسهام هذا النموذج الفريد للاقتصاد الإسلامي في بلورة أشكال متعددة للسوق في الاقتصاد العالمي (الفقرة 5).

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  • Valentino Cattelan, 2017. "Legal Pluralism, Property Rights and the Paradigm of Islamic Economics التعددية القانونية وحقوق الملكية والنموذج الإرشادي للاقتصاد الإسلامي," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 30(1), pages 21-36, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:30:y:2017:i:1:no:2:p:21-36
    DOI: 10.4197/Islec.30-1.2
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