This Book Is A Penetrating Analysis Of Unity Among Muslim Countries In General And Pakistan, Libya And The Sudan (Three Muslim Countries) In Particular. It Covers The Role Of Islam And Organisation Of Islamic Conference (Oic) In Their Bi-Lateral Relations. The Present Study Includes How The Ties Of These Countries With The U.S.A. And The U.S.S.R. Effected Their Bi-Lateral Relations.

The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) is the world’s leading international Islamic organization. Turan Kayaoglu provides the first accessible and concise introduction and overview of this important organization. This book details the OIC’s struggle to address popular Muslim demands balanced against the member states’ reluctance to support the OIC politically and materially. Despite this predicament, the organization has made itself increasingly relevant over the last decade through increasing its visibility as the representative body of Muslim unity and promoting its role as a reliable interlocutor on behalf of Muslims in global society. Outlining the history, workings and goals of the OIC, the book also highlights key issues that may influence the OIC’s ability to realize its potential in the future. This will be of great interest to students and scholars of international relations, international organizations and islamic studies.

Abstract: Established in 1969, the OIC sat a unique paradigm in the international order as an intergovernmental organization that claims a religious identity and mandate: working for Muslim unity and interests. In that pursuit, it has assumed the function of the peaceful settlement of disputes as one of its primary roles. Over half a century of its existence, not only did the OIC drift away from its founding principles and commitments; it is now condemned for turning into an arena for polarization among Muslims, where unchecked geopolitical competition has aroused rampant violence of all sorts. The literature on the OIC extensively discussed the declined potency of the shared faith of Islam as a unification norm, its inhibiting effect on the organization's operational framework, in addition to religion becoming a source for division and radicalizm. In contrast, this research offers to demonstrate that operating on the Islamic norms in conflict management and peacemaking, through the engagement of religious leaders, is the viable mechanism by which the OIC can play an effective role in Intra-Muslim disputes and effectually deploy its idiosyncratic resources within the United Nations system. In this quest, this thesis explores the prospects of the OIC - as a faith-based organization- to exercise a more efficient mediatory role in intra-Muslim conflicts, through staging culturally-sensitive interventions. It examines the organization's potential to exercise such a role amid cultural domination, the supremacy of realpolitik, and the lack of an ideological and normative framework.

The Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) is the Muslim world's only intergovernmental body-the largest such system operating outside of the United Nations. This is the first history of the OIC.

In June 2011 the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation established the Independent Permanent Human Rights Commission, with the objective to "advance human rights" and "support the Member States' efforts to consolidate civil, political, economic, social and cultural rights". This report provides an introduction to the new human rights commission, presenting the background to its establishment, its objectives, activities and experts, as well as its relation to the international human rights community and its conception of human rights. The report concludes by discussing some of the potentially problematic aspects of the Commission, as well as some of its strengths, seen from a Danish perspective.

This book explores the volatility, efficiency and integration of stock markets in Islamic countries. It presents recent trends, growth and performance, before moving on to explore how patterns change during different business cycles for short-term and long-term investors, and ranks the efficiency of the various markets. It addresses how the level of market integration has been affected during different economic periods, and concludes by summarising the performance of the stock markets, suggesting potential future directions for these markets.

In the face of Islam's own internal struggles, it is not easy to see who we should support and how. This report provides detailed descriptions of subgroups, their stands on various issues, and what those stands may mean for the West. Since the outcomes can matter greatly to international community, that community might wish to influence them by providing support to appropriate actors. The author recommends a mixed approach of providing specific types of support to those who can influence the outcomes in desirable ways.

From the unification of North and South Yemen, to the struggle for Mahgreb unity, and the experiences of the six-member Gulf Cooperation Council, this book presents a complex portrait of the history and prospects for Arab integration.