I have been asked to help a small middle-eastern company develop its personnel and training policies.

I come from an Anglo-Saxon Judeo-Christian tradition.

The Company is owned by a devout Muslim and is run on Islamic lines -- growth is financed internally (no borrowing) and the owner refuses to take government contracts as that would involve bribery.

Before I visit the company I would like to understand more about what the Moslem tradition has to contribute to ideas about developing a learning organisation.

I am in touch with the Arabian Society for Human Resource Management but they have so far discovered nothing on developing LOs in organisations run on strictly Islamic lines.

I wonder if anyone can recommend any books, internet sites or other resources that might help me.

Alan Mossman