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The relationship between religion and economic activity has attracted generations of scholars working in myriad settings. In recent years, many have turned to questions of how Islamic ideas are generative of economic activity, to Islamic finance and capital, and to the relationship between contemporary Islam and capitalism more broadly. In Corporate Islam: Sharia and the Modern Workplace (Cambridge University Press, 2017), Patricia Sloane-White builds on this work by asking \u201cnot only how the spread of global capitalism transforms the lives of Muslims\u2026 but how capitalism empowers the spread of Islam.\u201d Drawing from interviews and ethnographic fieldwork over a seven-year period, and a wealth of knowledge from over two decades of research in Malaysia, Sloane-White argues that the \u201csharia space\u201d of the today\u2019s corporate Islamic workplace is a third domain between the public and the private in which employees must submit to the guidance of their professional and personal lives by men who insist that their businesses can and must be both profitable and pious.\n\nPatricia Sloane-White joins New Books in Southeast Asian Studies to talk about Malaysia\u2019s self-styled men of the mosque and the market; the new nexus between Islamic scholars and CEOs; the decline of the bumiputera generation; sexuality, gendered divisions of labour, and the problem of patriarchy in the capitalist workplace everywhere.\n\nListeners of this episode may also be interested in:\n\nIza Hussin, The Politics of Islamic Law: Local Elites, Colonial Authority and the Making of the Muslim State\n\nMeredith Weiss, Student Activism in Malaysia: Crucible, Mirror, Sideshow\n\n\n\nNick Cheesman is a fellow in the College of Asia and the Pacific, Australian National University. He can be reached at nick.cheesman@anu.edu.au\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices\nSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/law