The Politics of Islamic Finance - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0748618368 ISBN 13: 9780748618361

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Can the contemporary Islamic finance movement be shown to meet the requirements of modern commerce? In the wake of the terrorist attacks on America the UN Security Council passed a resolution targeting transnational sources of terrorist funds. The United States and the International Monetary Fund are encouraging the governments of the Middle East to adopt policies of economic liberalism and a new type of capitalism, based on Islamic values and beliefs, is emerging.The aims of the book are:* to explore the political implications of the slow but steady accumulation of Islamic capital* to analyse the connections between Islamic finance and Islamic political movements in Middle Eastern and North African countries* to show that the commonly-perceived connection between Islamic finance and money laundering and terrorism is by no means the complete picture.Readers will learn to appreciate the various political contexts in which Islamic finance operates in the Middle East and North Africa and will acquire

About this title

About the Author:

Clement Henry is Professor of Government at the University of Texas at Austin Rodney Wilson is Founder of the Islamic Finance Programme at the Durham University

Review:

This timely book demonstrates how in-depth academic scholarship can make a signal contribution to a major topical issue of public policy.

(Robert Springborg, Director, London Middle East Institute)

About this edition

• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0748618368
• ISBN 13: 9780748618361
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312
• Editor: Henry Clement, Wilson Rodney