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Contemporary Islamic finance : innovations, applications, and best practices /

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While the religion of Islam has existed for 1,400 years, Islamic economic theory and its financial institutions only began to emerge in the 1970s. But the Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) industry has grown rapidly, and for those who want to participate in the global financial arena on a profession...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Hunt-Ahmed, Karen
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons, ©2013.
Series:Robert W. Kolb series in finance.
Subjects:
Finance > Islamic countries.
Finance > Religious aspects > Islam.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Contemporary Islamic economic thought / Mohammad Omar Farooq
  • The legal framework of Islamic finance / Cynthia Shawamreh
  • Globalization and Islamic finance : flows and consciousness / Karen Hunt-Ahmed
  • Islamic science and the critique of neoclassical economic theory / Waleed El-Ansary
  • Juristic disagreement : the collective fatwā against Islamic banking in Pakistan / Shoaib A. Ghias
  • Managing liquidity risk in Islamic finance / Dr. Muhammad Al-Bashir Muhammad Al-Amine
  • Elements of Islamic wealth management / Paul Wouters
  • Sukūk and the Islamic capital markets : an introduction / Michael J.T. McMillen
  • Sharía compliant mutual funds / Monem Salam
  • The evolution of shariah-compliant indexes and why they outperform conventional indexes over the long term / Tariq Al-Rifai
  • Takaful / Farrukh Siddiqui
  • Islamic human resources practices / William Marty Martin
  • An integrated islamic poverty alleviation model / Ali Ashraf and M. Kabir Hassan
  • How does an Islamic microfinance model play the key role in poverty alleviation? : the European perspective / Sabur Mollah and M. Hamid Uddin
  • Case studies
  • Islamic finance in an almost postcrisis and postrevolutionary world : as in politics, all Islamic finance is local / Mark Smyth
  • Stepping forward, backward, or just standing still? : a case study in shifting Islamic financial structures offshore / Umar F. Moghul
  • Islamic mortgages / David Loundy
  • Sharia quality rating / Nasir Ali Merchant
  • Islamic mutual funds performance in Saudi Arabia / Hesham Merdad and M. Kabir Hassan
  • Shariah-compliant real estate investment in the United States / John L. Opar
  • Risk and derivatives in Islamic finance : a shariah analysis / Dr. Muhammad Al-Bashir Muhammad Al-Amine
  • Islamic microfinance / Blake Goud
  • About the editor
  • Index.