"Highlighting the impact of current globalization on financial markets, this topical book challenges the universality of Western property rights and interprets Islamic finance in Europe as part of a plural financial system, where different conceptions of economic justice(s) co-exist and...

This illuminating and thought-provoking book questions whether classical Islamic capitalism, which has served Muslims so well for centuries, can provide a viable alternative world economic system. In the current recession--the worst since 1929--this is surely a provocative question. But if...

Foreword / Celia de Anca and Ignacio de la Torre -- Editors' notes and acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Glossary of common Arabic terms in Islamic economics and finance -- Beyond the crisis : Islamic finance in the new financial order -- Opening round table -- Introduction to Islamic economics...