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This book provides an overview of the practice of Islamic finance and the historical roots that define its modes of operation. The focus of the book is analytical and forward-looking. It shows that Islamic finance exists mainly as a form of rent-seeking legal-arbitrage. In every aspect of finance - from personal loans to investment banking, and from market structure to corporate governance - Islamic finance aims to replicate in Islamic forms the substantive functions of contemporary financial instruments, markets, and institutions. By attempting to replicate the substance of contemporary financial practice using pre-modern contract forms, Islamic finance has arguably failed to serve the objectives of Islamic law. This book proposes refocusing Islamic finance on substance rather than form. This approach would entail abandoning the paradigm of 'Islamization' of every financial practice. It would also entail reorienting the brand-name of Islamic finance to emphasize issues of community banking, micro-finance, and socially responsible investment.
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Business, Nonfiction, Securities, Business enterprises, Law and legislation, Finance, Economics, Banking law (Islamic law), Islam, Banking law, Business enterprises, finance, Economics, religious aspects, Money, religious aspects, Banques, Droit islamique, Entreprises, Finances, Droit, Valeurs mobilieres, Aspect religieux, Economie politiqueShowing 6 featured editions. View all 6 editions?
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Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice
2010, Cambridge University Press
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Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice
July 3, 2006, Cambridge University Press
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Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice
2006, Cambridge University Press
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Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice
2006, Cambridge University Press
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Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice
2006, Cambridge University Press
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"In his Address to the Nobility of the German Nation in 1520, Martin Luther wrote: A cobbler, a smith, a peasant, every man, has the office and function of his calling, and yet all alike are consecrated priests and bishops, and every man should by his office or function be useful and beneficial to the rest, so that various kinds of work may all be united for the furtherance of body and soul, just as the members of the body all serve one another."
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