Includes indexes.

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 fatw against Islamic banking in Pakistan / Shoaib A. Ghias -- Managing liquidity risk in Islamic finance / Dr. Mohammed Bashir -- Elements of Islamic wealth management / Paul Wouters -- Sukak and the Islamic capital markets : an introduction / Michael J.T. McMillen -- Sharija compliant mutual funds / Monem Salam -- The evolution of shariah compliant indexes and why they outperform conventional indexes over the long term / by Tariq Al-Rifai -- Takaful / Farrukh Siddiqui -- Islamic human resources practices / William Martin -- An integrated islamic poverty alleviation model / Ali Ashraf, Kabir Hassan -- How does an Islamic microfinance model play the key role in poverty alleviation? : the European perspective / Sabur Mollah, Hamid Uddin -- Case studies -- Islamic finance in an almost post-crisis and post-revolutionary 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 / by David Loundy -- Sharia quality rating / Nasir Ali Merchant -- Islamic mutual funds performance in Saudi Arabia / Hesham Merdad, Kabir Hassan -- Sharijah-compliant investment in the United States / John L. Opar -- Risk management in Islamic finance : a shariah analysis of derivatives instruments / Dr. Mohammed Bashir -- Islamic microfinance / Blake Goud -- About the editor -- Index.

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