00000nam 2200000 4500 INLIS000000000003323 20200508202241 200508||||||||| | ||| |||| ||eng|| 9781845420833 010-0520003323 eng 332.1 332.1/LEW/H Edited by M. Kabir Hassan and Mervyn K. Lewis Handbook of Islamic Banking Cheltenham Thomson 2007 xviii, 443p. : illus,; 25cm. Indeks : p.433 - 443 The book comprises 25 students by leading international experts on islamic banking and finance specially commissioned to analyse the various debates and the current state of play in the field. From its origins thirty years ago, has expanded rapidly to become a distinctive and fast growing segment of the international banking and capital markets. This expansion, still remains poorly understood in many parts of the Muslim world and continues to be a mystery in much of the workings of islamic banking and finance, accessible to a wide range of readers.It seeks to bring the current agenda and the main issues on islamic banking a wider audience. Islamic banking offers, as an alternative to conventional interest-based financing methods, a wide variety of financial instruments and investment vehicles based on profit-and-loss sharing arrangements. Banks and Banking - Islam