The United Kingdom is an indisputable hub for Islamic Finance in Europe while English common law is widely used for securitisations, including Islamic securitisations of which products are asset-backed securities called “Sukuk”. Thus, the question of whether the applicable EU law provides a...

This paper investigates when and how Islamic political actors support democracy, and in particular, the EU's democratic criteria subsumed under membership conditionality. The research focuses on the main Islamic organizations in two Muslim-majority, EU applicant states, Turkey and Albania. The...