The GrayFold 📚

Some book recommendations at the intersection of Islam, economics and finance 🧵

Sometimes I feel I'm not as smart as I was years ago because I rarely have anything of substance to write or opine about. On further reflection I think I was just more argumentative then. I wasnt thinking, I learned how to argue well and to maneuver rhetorically against others.

“Religion is not an opium, it is a scream. It is not a lullaby sung to the oppressed so they sleep peacefully in their chains. It is the shout of the enslaved man who has suddenly discovered his chains and is reaching for his dignity” Ali Shariati, Religion vs. Religion

the prophet, upon him be infinite blessings and peace, said “lo! the world is accursed, and accursed is all that is therein, save the remembrance of God and that which attendeth upon it, and the scholar or one who seeketh knowledge”

Read, read, read! Reading is to the mind as exercise is to the body.

In these blessed last ten days and nights of Ramadan, as you pray and fast, please remember my father in your duas and ask Allah to grant him mercy and Jannah.

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Chaotic and cruel times; it’s awful to witness the moral bankruptcy, the blatant audacity and pride to oppress and deem truth a lie, without even a pinch of fear running down their conscience that there will be a time of accountability for all this wrongdoing.

There is a recurring phenomenon within Muslim discourse where any heightened geopolitical tension (war, occupation, a crisis, etc) is met with the deeply misguided counsel: "focus on the deen, leave these distractions." The implicit assumption embedded in this advice is that…+

No time like now to read and monitor like there’s no tomorrow.

وَمَا تَدْرِي نَفْسٍ مَّاذَا تَكْسِبُ غَدًا وَمَا تَدْرِي نَفْسٌ بأي أرض تَمُوتُ إِنَّ اللَّهَ عَلِيمٌ خَبِيرٌ ﴿٣٤﴾ And no soul perceives what it will earn tomorrow, and no soul perceives in what land it will die. Indeed, Allāh is Knowing and Aware.

Therefore he should not ask of life what it was not created for. A poet said: It [worldly life] is founded on distress yet you want it, free of harm and distress.

He should then know that life is founded on distress, all constructed buildings shall eventually be ruined, all gatherings shall eventually depart, and whoever wants the lasting of what does not last is like he who wants what does not exist to exist.+

Ramadan Mubarak. May Allah make our imaan firm, bring us closer to deen, and increase our good deeds, not just for this month but after it too. May Allah bring ease and relief to those going through hardship.

usury and banking, case against the riba based fiat monetary system to solutions in the form of bitcoin, among much more.

Quite late to start this, but this book feels like something we needed at the very beginning of our economics journey. Constructively, Abdullah has deconstructed every topic, explaining economic concepts through islamic lens, problems with existing islamic econ, history of +

@mccandelish This visualization is fascinating. Would you mind sharing the data sources you used? I’m curious how this pattern might look for the East .

How the concept of marriage has changed across centuries 💘

@MuslimV0ice Okay. Insha'allah, I'll think through it.

@TheGrayFold I am not fully vouching for neo liberal model, but lots of critics on capitalism from trad muslims are exaggerated and comes from socialist authors perspective, if they read islamic economics and history of islamic world, much of that inaccuracies will be noticed

This debacle is a result of something called the "modernity trap" — the permeation of modern ideologies, systems, and lifestyles into the deepest corners of society, across structure, economics, and culture. 1.Culturally: Secularisation has shown a strong correlation between the

These factors apply in nuanced ways across both developed and developing nations. (such is also the case for Turkiye) To sum up succinctly, the Modern industrial life is structurally anti-natal.

4.Gender and work: Female empowerment (through feminism), increased female participation in the formal workforce, the motherhood penalty, and the rising opportunity cost of having a child all contribute to delayed or reduced fertility.