The Politics of Islamic Finance / / Clement Henry, Rodney Wilson.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (312 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • PART I Thematic Essays
  • 1 Islamic Banks: The Rise of a New Power Alliance of Wealth and Shari’a Scholarship
  • 2 Global Politics, Islamic Finance and Islamist Politics Before and After 11 September 2001
  • 3 The Murabaha Syndrome in Islamic Finance: Laws, Institutions and Politics
  • 4 Marketing Commodities Does Not Happen on Commodity Markets: The Egyptian Bursat Al-‘Uqud and Oil Futures Markets
  • 5 Financial Performances of Islamic versus Conventional Banks
  • 6 Capital Flight through Islamic Managed Funds
  • PART II Case Studies
  • 7 Interest Politics: Islamic Finance in the Sudan, 1977–2001
  • 8 The Kuwait Finance House and the Islamization of Public Life in Kuwait
  • 9 Jordan: A Case Study of the Relationship between Islamic Finance and Islamist Politics
  • 10 The Political Economy of Islamic Finance in Turkey: The Role of Fethullah Gülen and Asya Finans
  • 11 Aiyyu Bank Islami? The Marginalization of Tunisia’s BEST Bank
  • 12 The Rise and Decline of the Islamic Banking Model in Egypt
  • Conclusion
  • Notes on the Contributors
  • Index