There are many excellent textbooks on economics, but few that attempt to approach the discipline from an Islamic perspective. The first in English was the classic text by M.A. Mannan, Islamic Economics: Theory and Practice, (Hodder and Stoughton, 1986). This has a conventional layout, but within...

Books reviewed: Richard A. McGowan, Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry Phyllis Deanwe, The Life and Times of J. Neville Keynes: A Beacon in the Tempest Craig Freedman, Economic Reform in Japan: Can the Japanese Change? William Thomson, A Guide for the Young Economist:...

The Political Economy of the Gulf Summary Report details research conducted at the CIRS "Political Economy of the Gulf" working group meetings held in Doha over the course of two years. The project was launched in 2009. As with other CIRS research initiatives, after a thorough review of existing...

Almost three decades have passed since the founding of the first modern Islamic bank in the small Egyptian delta town of Mit Ghamr. Islamic banking has developed so remarkably in the last quarter century, that it is hard to believe that the movement is so young.The main expansion occurred in the...

Islamic finance has become increasingly significant in financial centres in the West, notably London, despite the regulatory hurdles presented by operating in a nonMuslim financial environment. The growth of Islamic finance partly reflects demand from Muslim resident and non-resident clients for...

Economic policy and business strategy are largely developed in a secular context with little or no reference to religious principles. There are few organisations, apart from those facilitating worship, that pay much attention to religious principles. This chapter shows that religious principles...