Islamic finance has emerged in the post-colonial period as part of the ethos for comprehensive reformation of the Muslim world. While the aspiration and need for broader transformation remain, the field of Islamic finance so far has been able to capture the interest of a sizable segment of the Muslim world and beyond.
The Arab Law Quarterly, the leading English language journal on law and legal studies of the Arab world, will devote its upcoming Symposium Issue to the subject of Islamic finance and the contemporary challenges it faces. This Symposium Issue solicits conceptual, theoretical, and empirical papers to address the issues related to the challenges and new frontiers facing the Islamic finance industry. Preference will be given to papers with an explicit focus on the Arab/MENA region. Papers need not be exclusively legal—the journal has long been interdisciplinary in its focus, and welcomes contributions from sociological, political science, economics, and anthropological perspectives as well.
Further information can be found at the link here.
Should anyone be interested, here is a short list I put together some years ago by way of an introduction to both so-called Islamic economics as well as economics (or political economy) as it exists in what we loosely call the Islamic world.
• Chaudhry, Kiren Aziz. The Price of Wealth: Economies and Institutions in the Middle East. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
• El-Gamal, Mahmoud A. Islamic Finance: Law, Economics, and Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Henry, Clement H. and Robert Springborg. Globalization and the Politics of Development in the Middle East. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
• Issawi, Charles. An Economic History of the Middle East and North Africa. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
• Kuran, Timur. Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
• Mallat, Chibli. The Renewal of Islamic Law: Muhammad Baqer as-Sadr, Najaf and the Shi’i International. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
• Mannan, M.A. Islamic Economics: Theory and Practice. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1987.
• Richards, Alan and John Waterbury. A Political Economy of the Middle East. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2nd ed., 1996.
• as-Sadr, Muhammad Bāqir (Roy Mottahedeh, trans.). Lessons in Islamic Jurisprudence. Oxford, UK: Oneworld, 2003.
• Saeed, Abdullah. Islamic Banking and Interest: A Study of the Prohibition of Ribā and Its Contemporary Interpretation. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2nd ed., 1997.
• Saleh, Nabil. Unlawful Gain and Legitimate Profit in Islamic Law. London: Graham and Trotman, 2nd ed., 1992.
• Tripp, Charles. Islam and the Moral Economy: The Challenge of Capitalism. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
• Warde, Ibrahim. Islamic Finance in the Global Economy. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000.
Posted by: Patrick S. O'Donnell | April 19, 2019 at 12:08 PM