Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: Introduction
Islamic Finance in the World Economy
Karen Hunt-Ahmed, PhD
Part I: The Contemporary Islamic Finance Landscape
Chapter 2: Contemporary Islamic Economic Thought
Mohammad Omar Farooq
Chapter 3: The Legal Framework of Islamic Finance
Cynthia Shawamreh
Chapter 4: Globalization and Islamic Finance Flows and Consciousness
Karen Hunt-Ahmed, PhD
Chapter 5: Islamic Science and the Critique of Neoclassical Economic Theory
Waleed El-Ansary
Chapter 6: Juristic Disagreement The Collective Fatw? Against Islamic Banking in Pakistan
Shoaib A. Ghias
Chapter 7: Managing Liquidity Risk in Islamic Finance
Dr. Mohammed Bashir
Chapter 8: Elements of Islamic Wealth Management
Paul Wouters
Chapter 9: Suk?k and the Islamic Capital Markets
An Introduction
Michael J.T. McMillen*
Chapter 10: Shari?a Compliant Mutual Funds
Monem Salam
Chapter 11: The Evolution of Shariah Compliant Indexes and Why They Outperform Conventional Indexes Over the Long Term
By Tariq Al-Rifai
Chapter 12: Takaful
Farrukh Siddiqui
Chapter 13: Islamic Human Resources Practices
William Martin
Chapter 14: An Integrated Islamic Poverty Alleviation Model
Ali Ashraf, M. Kabir Hassan
Chapter 15: How Does an Islamic Microfinance Model Play the Key Role in Poverty Alleviation?
The European Perspective
Sabur Mollah, PhD and MD. Hamid Uddin, PhD
Part II: Case Studies
Chapter 16: Islamic Finance in an Almost Post-Crisis and Post-Revolutionary World
As in Politics, all Islamic Finance is Local
Mark Smyth
Chapter 17: Stepping Forward, Backward, or Just Standing Still?
A Case Study in Shifting Islamic Financial Structures Offshore
Umar F. Moghul
Chapter 18: Islamic Mortgages
By David Loundy
Chapter 19: Sharia Quality Rating
Nasir Ali Merchant
Chapter 20: Islamic Mutual Funds Performance in Saudi Arabia
Hesham Merdad and M. Kabir Hassan
Chapter 21: Shari?ah-Compliant Investment in the United States
John L. Opar
Chapter 22: Risk Management in Islamic Finance
A Shariah Analysis of Derivatives Instruments
Dr. Mohammed Bashir
Chapter 23: Islamic Microfinance
Blake Goud
About the Editor
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