Preface to the Second Edition vii
Preface: My Story with RF (Islamic) Banking and Finance in America xiii
Acknowledgments xxix
About the Book Cover xxxvii
CHAPTER 1
Introduction 1
CHAPTER 2
The Faith-Based Judeo-Christian-Islamic Foundation of the Prohibition of Interest and the RF (Riba-Free) Banking System 15
CHAPTER 3
The RF Valuation Disciplines of Commodity Indexation and Marking to the Market 55
CHAPTER 4
The Law: The Judeo-Christian-Islamic Shari’aa 75
CHAPTER 5
Money and Its Creation: The U.S. Federal Reserve System (Central Banks) and Interest Rates 101
CHAPTER 6
Towards an RF Monetary Discipline: The RF Commodity Indexation Discipline 137
CHAPTER 7
Civility and Social Responsibility of the RF Banking System 179
CHAPTER 8
The Conventional Riba-Based Banking System 207
CHAPTER 9
Comparing RF Banking and Conventional Riba-Based Banking: What Is the Difference? 247
CHAPTER 10
RF (Islamic) Banking in the Twentieth Century 261
CHAPTER 11
RF Banking Model for the Twenty-First Century: The LARIBA RF Model 285
CHAPTER 12
Putting the RF Finance Movement and Discipline Together 345
CHAPTER 13
Starting an RF Bank in the United States 361
CHAPTER 14
RF Capital Markets 399
CHAPTER 15
Case Studies 431
CHAPTER 16
RF Credits (Loans) in Contrast to Types of Riba-Based Loans 449
CHAPTER 17
The RF Approach to Handling Troubled and Nonperforming Credits (Loans) 463
CHAPTER 18
Visions for the Future of RF Banking 471
CHAPTER 19
RF Banking: A New Banking Brand for the Twenty-First Century 483
About the Companion Website 487
Index 489
