This manuscript deals with some interpretive issues related to 'sustainability' when the concept moves ('is translated') from conventional to Islamic economics. To this aim it raises some critical remarks on possible hermeneutical mistakes in asserting an immediate convergence between the former...

Referring to Shakespeare's Hamlet, this paper explains the “tragedy of Islamic economics” by looking at the issue of the moral economy of Islam as an orientalistic “ghost” that, if may distress the “world” of conventional economics, represents, instead, a false problem for its own...

This article deals with the notion of property (māl) and the conceptualization of credit relations in Islamic law by investigating the dyad 'ayn/dayn and highlighting the functional linkage between dayn (debt/credit) and dhimma (legal personality). More precisely, in accordance with the...

This paper suggests a juridical interpretation of the prohibitions of ribā, gharar and maysir through the outline of the concept of ‘right', haqq, in Muslim law. The approach provides a comprehension of the bans alternative to its religious/moral understanding which is still prevalent in...

This article discusses Islamic economics by applying a legal plural approach to property rights: more precisely, it argues that Islamic economics embodies a property theory that is alternative to the conventional one and that this property theory gives rise to a paradigm of economic justice that...

This paper aims at providing a response to the interrelated issues of electronification and digitization of payments combining a law, economics and humanities approach with a critical eye on the most recent evolution of European Union law on the matter of payment systems and complementary and...

Foreword Abdullah Qurban Turkistani Introduction. Islamic social finance and the importance of roots Valentino Cattelan Part I -- Islam, shared prosperity and the market as socio-economic community From the ontology of tawhid to Islamic social finance: conceptualization and application Masudul...

"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...