Imran Shamsunahar, Author at Areo

On 21 August 2021, Ismail Sabri Yaakob was sworn in as the ninth prime minister of Malaysia, forming the country’s fourth government in three years and ending 17 months of…

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Crescent Capitalism: Islam and the Birth of the Free Market

02/07/2021
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Imran Shamsunahar

Islamists, leftists and conservatives have long debated whether Islam is compatible with western liberal capitalism. Many have framed the history of capitalism as beginning in medieval Genoa and Venice, and…

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The Jesuits: For God and Globalization

21/12/2018
Imran Shamsunahar

On 16th November 2018, a twenty-six-year-old American missionary called John Allen Chau was killed by an isolated tribe on the island of North Sentinel, part of the Indian island territories of Andaman…

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Imran Shamsunahar

The Corrosive Individualism of Southeast Asian Politics

Crescent Capitalism: Islam and the Birth of the Free Market

The Jesuits: For God and Globalization

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