The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier
研究了吉隆坡如何凭借远离西方和中东的区位优势，通过跨国跨文化联盟，整合西方金融知识与海湾城市的伊斯兰教法权威，崛起为全球伊斯兰金融中心。
The rise of Kuala Lumpur as an Islamic financial frontier. Regional Studies. This paper examines Kuala Lumpur’s emergence as a prominent global Islamic financial centre. Its distance from the West and the Middle East offers a frontier positioning that facilitates new social practices from the integration of financial knowledge of Western world cities and Shariah authority claimed by Gulf cities. Based on primary data, the paper shows that transnational, transcultural alliances forged through skills of mediation and compromise among the city’s Islamic talents and Shariah scholars favourably connect separate economic and cultural spheres of knowledge.