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Islamic finance in the global economy

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This book builds on a number of academic and professional projects I have
been involved in over the years, some dealing with Islam and the Middle
East, others with global finance and economics. My work on Islamic
finance started at the University of California at Berkeley, where I studied
and taught Middle Eastern Politics. I owe a debt of gratitude to Professor
George Lenczowski, with whom I have been associated since my graduate
student days, and to Dr Laurence Michalak, Vice-Chair of the Center for
Middle Eastern Studies whose activities and resources proved most helpful
to my research. For this specific project, I received assistance from Dr
Samir Abid Shaikh, General Secretary of the International Association of
Islamic Banks, and from Dr Omar Hafiz, Deputy Director of the Islamic
Research and Training Institute at the Islamic Development Bank. Dr
Muhammed Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, deepened my
understanding of the relation between finance and development. I would
like to single out Professor Chibli Mallat, formerly of the School of
Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, now at
Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut, on whose encyclopedic knowledge of
Islamic law I relied extensively. Most of my articles on global economics
and finance were published in Le Monde diplomatique, a stimulating
publication that has challenged the pensée unique pervading the current
political–economic discourse. I would like to thank the editors for their
help and guidance, in particular Alain Gresh, whose own work on Islam
and the Middle East is invaluable, and Serge Halimi whose editing skills
and exacting standards have no doubt greatly improved my articles. A
number of research and consulting projects with IBPC (International
Business Publishing Consultants) in San Francisco have allowed me to get
first-hand knowledge of the real world of global finance and deepen my
understanding of both Islamic and conventional banking. In the course of
writing IBPC monographs and policy papers, I had the opportunity to
conduct in-depth interviews with bankers and government officials who are
too numerous to mention – which is just as well, since one of the ground
rules was that the anonymity of the interviewees would be preserved.

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Ketersediaan

Call Number	Location	Available
332.1 WAR i	PSB lt.1 - B. Penunjang	1

Penerbit	Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press 2000
Edisi	-
Subjek	Financial institutions Islam Finance Religious aspects Islamic countries Economics Islamic countries
ISBN/ISSN	748612165
Klasifikasi	NONE
Deskripsi Fisik	xiii, 252 p. ; 25 cm.
Info Detail Spesifik	-
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