Research Article
Corporate Religion
Dana Alduaij*
Cardiff University, United Kingdom.
- *Corresponding Author:
- Dana Alduaij
Cardiff University
36 Danby Street, Bristol
BS161EN United Kingdom
Tel: +44 29 2087 4000
E-mail: alduaijd@cardiff.ac.uk
Received Date: June 14, 2016; Accepted Date: July 04, 2016; Published Date: July 14, 2016
Citation: Alduaij D (2016) Corporate Religion. J Civil Legal Sci 5:198. doi: 10.4172/2169-0170.1000198
Copyright: © 2016 Alduaij D. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
In Islamic Sharia, trade between Muslims and non-Muslims is permissible. However, Sharia distinguishes between them in some religious aspects and these have a direct effect on business transactions, namely in terms of money and control. This sheds light on the importance of identifying the religion of the dealing parties in any sort of Islamic business. Determining an individual’s religion or lack of religion is not difficult but traders can be natural or artificial persons such as corporations. This then raises the question of how to ascribe a religion to such a body. This article will show that corporations have a universal right to follow and manifest a religion and be recognised in such a way. It also provides criteria for determining the religion of a corporation.
