Challenges of the Muslim world present, future and past

This book provides a data-based approach to present and future developments in the Muslim world. This is an unusual approach to this topic that highlights important underlying forces in current and projected future economic and social behaviour that range from prices of gasoline to terrorism and rel...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors Yue, Piyu
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2008.
SeriesInternational symposia in economic theory and econometrics ; v. 19.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781849508124
ISSN1571-0386 ;
DOI10.1016/S1571-0386(2008)19
Physical Description1 online resource (xxxii, 300 p.).

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Table of Contents:
  • Population sizes, birth and death rates / Piyu Yue
  • Changing age structure of the Muslim population / Piyu Yue
  • Rapid urbanization and its problems / Piyu Yue
  • Population quality : illiteracy and education / Piyu Yue
  • The Islamic empires / Piyu Yue
  • Colonization and Islamic fundamentalism / Piyu Yue
  • The contemporary scene and its challenges / Piyu Yue
  • World Production and reserves of oil and natural gas / Piyu Yue
  • World Demand for oil and natural gas / Piyu Yue
  • Global oil flow and strategic geography of the Muslim world / Piyu Yue.