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3 This is perhaps best explained by the development of analytically rigorous social science methods that have contributed to a better balance between the humanistic concerns of the more traditional approaches and efforts at systematizing the study of Islam and classifying it across boundaries of communities/ religions.
Even after the scope for this inquiry has been narrowed down to the subtopics of economics and governance, the latter remains a broad rubric and allows ample room for the range of issues scholars are addressing in their attempts to better understand Islam as a social phenomenon.
Roy Mottahedeh's historical approach sheds new light on Islamic economic thought in traditional society and helps define a better perspective for how the subject should be understood today.
In 1991-92, the World Bank's Population and Human Resources Division in the Technical Department for Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa conducted a regional research project that explored the role of Islamic precepts and religious agencies in development.
Piccinelli believes that such attempts indicate that ribd is being reinterpreted by Muslim scholars to accommodate the social and economic requirements of modem societies, an interpretation that he describes as "post-modem" ijtihad, Such changes are based on what are seen as Islam's central ethical values-its "moral economy.
The study of Islam ·s historical development is seen as important to understanding how this religion has addressed innovation and change in the past and how it relates to the evolution of political processes.