Elaine Housby

Islamic Financial Services in the United Kingdom (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length study of Islamic financial services in the United Kingdom. It describes the ways in which British examples of Islamic financial provision illustrate both the main characteristics of Islamic financial teaching and some key issues in the situation of British Muslims. Coverage of the subject is comprehensive: there are chapters on the history of Islamic finance in the UK and on personal accounts, home purchase finance, the equivalents of personal loans and insurance, investment, commercial funding and the relatively new bond-like instruments of sukuk.The author's approach is broadly sympathetic to the general spirit and aims of the Islamic financial tradition but critical of some of its manifestations in practice.The book is especially topical at present, following the crisis in the UK banking industry and the unprecedented level of public debate about the appropriate aims and techniques of the financial markets. Some commentators have recently expressed disappointment that Islamic finance in the UK has failed to live up to the high expectations surrounding it. This book attempts to give a balanced account of the sector's strengths and weaknesses.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Januar 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748644872
• Artikelnr.: 38222691

Autorenporträt

Elaine Housby is an independent researcher and freelance writer with a special interest in religious thinking about economic matters. She obtained a PhD on the topic of Islamic finance in the UK and is the author of Islamic Financial Services in the United Kingdom, also published in the Edinburgh Guides to Islamic Finance series.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
1. Introduction
2. History of Islamic Financial Services in the UK
3. Personal Accounts
4. Personal Finance
5. Home Finance
6. Takaful
7. Investments and Wealth Management
8. Sukuk
9. Business Finance
Conclusion
Glossary and Abbreviations
Index.