Introduction -- The economic system -- Financial contracting and riba (interest) -- Financial instruments -- Financial intermediation -- The Islamic financial system -- Islamic financial services industry -- Capital markets -- Financial engineering -- Risk management of Islamic financial...

The first book to offer comprehensive coverage of Islamic finance and banking and its applications to the rest of the world, now fully revised and updated The ongoing international financial crisis has reignited debate over the development of a risk-sharing financial system, such as that...

The Stability of Islamic Finance main focus is on the question of the sources of financial instability which seems inherent in the conventional system. As a core component of this focus, the book will consider episodes of turbulence and instability in a historical context recalling the...

The notion of "trust" as social capital and an intangible asset has been discussed in the literature for some time but the financial crisis of 2007-8 has highlighted the significance of "trust" with respect to corporate governance, business ethics, confidence in leadership and policy-makers, and...

This book provides an introductory theoretical foundation of the ethics embedded in Islamic economics and finance, and it shows how this ethical framework could pave the way to economic and social justice. It demonstrates how Islamic finance-a risk-sharing and asset-backed finance-has embedded...