Islamic Financial Institutions from the Early Modern Period to the 20th Century : Comparative Perspectives on the History and Development of Cash Waqfs

Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Ottoman cash waqf contracts and the transactions from the 15th to 19th centuries: a source for the new cash waqf fintech contract model and sdgs -- Chapter 3. Ottoman practices of zakat (obligatory alms): a tax or charity? -- Chapter 4. Nano entrepreneurship and saving-based finance concept in waqf literature: a systematic review and future research direction -- Chapter 5. Effects of cash waqfs on sustainable economic development in the balkans during the early modern period -- Chapter 6. Philanthropy in ottoman rumelia: cash waqfs from four provinces -- Chapter 7. From the periphery to a global player: historical evolution of the qatari banking sector -- chapter 8. From private bankers to public banks in the kingdom of naples (15th – 17th c.) -- Chapter 9. Tracing the connections of transnational financial players with a peripheral country: some evidence from the south of italy over the first globalization -- Chapter 10. From the dutch to british hegemonies: what were the differences? -- chapter 11. Conclusion .