Preface: The Governance aspects of Islamic Public Value

The current theme issue of Halduskultuur is one of the publications emerging from “Islamic Public Value” (IPV), a John Templeton Foundation grant based at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (UCL IIPP), of which the co-editors, and the authors, are members. The project aims to uncover, and present as legitimate, the perspectives of otherwise underrepresented and underexplored Islamic institutions undertaking polycentric governance and administration and creating public value to better the lives of their constituents and neighbours, and this is the publication with a specific, one might even say classic, Governance focus.