Code
31501109
Duration
01 January 2009 → 30 December 2011
Funding
Research Foundation - Flanders (FWO)
Promotor
Research disciplines
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Social sciences
- Marketing
- Economic geography
- Human geography
- Recreation, leisure and tourism geography
- Urban and regional geography
- Other social and economic geography
- Applied sociology
Keywords
world cities
financial services
Project description
This research project examines the geographies of Islamic banking and financing. These services are inter alia characterized by the prohibition of investisting in products that are not allowed by the Shari'ah. Because this research starts from non-Western forms of advanced services, we shed light on global processes that have new been under investigated in world cities researh.