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:...

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...

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...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an analysis of different sukuk structures from a financial perspective. This examination includes murabahah and ijara-based sukuk, the former offering a fixed return, and the latter, the most popular form of sukuk, a variable return. The...