The editing of a handbook of research on Global Islamic Finance is more exciting and challenging than ever before. The past three decades have been an eventful one for the proponents of Islamic finance. Islamic Finance has become a buzzword from G20 to World Economic Forum to global and national...

The international emergence and expansion of Islamic finance is an undeniable fact. Significant efforts from all stakeholders including regulatory bodies are currently under way to formulate universal framework, standards and codes of conduct for Islamic finance. This is necessary because of the...