Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Orientalism and Ersatz Islam -- Weber, New-Orientalism and Ersatz Islam -- Secularism and the New-Orientalism -- Ersatz Islam, "Islamic Law," Shari'ah, and Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) -- Ersatz Islam and the Marxist...

The Stability of Islamic Finance main focus is on the question of the sources of financial instability which seems inherent in the conventional system. As a core component of this focus, the book will consider episodes of turbulence and instability in a historical context recalling the...