Frontmatter -- Preface / Verrips, Jojada / Meijers, Daniel -- Table of Contents -- Introduction / Gellner, Ernest -- Law and Reality in Modern Islam / Kielstra, Niko -- Islam as a Vehicle of Protest / Waardenburg, Jacques -- Towards an Economic Model of Virtuoso Religion / Turner, Bryan S. --...

The principles of Islamic finance are laid down in the sharia, Islamic law. Islamic finance, comprising financial transactions in banks and non-bank financial institutions formal and non-formal financial institutions, is based on the concept of a social order of brotherhood and solidarity. The...