Islam, Islams and stratifications: problematics of theory, methodology and subject matter -- An investigation of creatio ex nihilo, Islam, sociality and inequality -- Two sociological outlooks: Shi'ite-Sunni imperatives on ascription and achievement statuses, the bases for socio-cultural and religious stratification -- Functionalism and stratification, socio-cultural evolution and revolution -- Re-stratification in the name of God -- Structural-functionalism, stratification and historical background of Islamic economic thought: transitions and ruptures -- Pathologies and transition of socio-political conditions and economies of Islamic societies with philosophical considerations -- Revisiting companionship and the socio-economy of the Islamic guilds: Sufism, the guilds' vertical and horizontal structure of communication, and the Islamic economic system -- Foundations of Islamic economy, Islamic scholarship, mass media, linguistic turn, and social mobility -- Stratification and social mobility, slavery in Islam: a critical structural-functionalism approach -- Middle east studies and Muslim experience after September 11th, 2001: rebellion against Islamic ideology and the new counter-jihadis -- Religious economies and religious mobility: the Christian west and the Islamic east and Africa -- Islam and modernity: considering Shafi'i's perspective on how Islamic thought dealt with the question of renewal / Radwan Ziadeh.