Developments in Islamic Banking: The Case of Pakistan (Palgrave Macmillan Studies in Banking and Financial Institutions) - Hardcover

Khan, M.; Bhatti, M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1403998779 ISBN 13: 9781403998774

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008

Synopsis

This book explores the theoretical and practical features of Islamic banking. Using Pakistan as a detailed illustration, the text discusses recent developments and future prospects, demonstrating the model underpinning interest-free banking. It assesses the practical success of interest-free banking at both individual banks and state level.

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About the Author:

MOHAMMAD MANSOOR KHAN is Lecturer at the University of South Australia. He researches in the fields of accounting and Islamic finance and has written five recent research articles and worked as a guest co-editor of the special issue of Managerial Finance on the topic of interest-free banking.

M. ISHAQ BHATTI is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Finance at La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia and adjunct Professor of Finance, UAE University, UAE. He has previously held academic positions in Canada, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Middle East and Pakistan. He is the author of more than sixty articles and two books, and is an editorial board member of several journals. His main areas of research and scholarship are quantitative methods in Islamic finance, econometrics, Islamic economics and the economics of standards.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1403998779
• ISBN 13: 9781403998774
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 289