Global leaders in islamic finance : industry milestones and reflections / Emmy Abdul Alim.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Alim, Emmy Abdul.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bankers--Islamic countries--Interviews.

Bankers.

Banks and banking--Islamic countries.

Banks and banking.

Finance--Islamic countries.

Finance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (354 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Singapore ; Hoboken, New Jersey : Wiley, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Interviews with the professionals driving the rapid global growth of Islamic finance Though the modern Islamic finance system has existed for more than forty years, its size and influence in the banking industry has expanded massively in just the last decade. This book looks at Islamic finance from the perspective of the experts shaping the industry, including some of the founders of the first Islamic banks-Haj Saeed Lootah, His Royal Highness Prince Mohamed Al Faisal Al Saud, and Sheikh Saleh Abdullah Kamel-as well as other professionals who have greatly influenced the industry

Contents:

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Selected List of Acronyms; Introduction; Chapter 1 The Islamic Economist/Activist; Early Influences: Muhammad Iqbal, Muhammad Asad, and Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi; Operationalising Islam: Sayyid Abul A'la Mawdudi and Jama'at-e-Islami; Milestone: First International Conference on Islamic Economics; International Influence: Islamic Economics as an Academic Discipline; Spreading the Message Abroad: Europe and the Islamic Foundation in the United Kingdom; Islamisation of the Pakistani Economy

Islamic Economics versus the Narrow Pursuit of Profit Forty Years On: The Wood for the Trees; The Last Word; Chapter 2 The Very First Mover; Always Begin at the Beginning; Dubai: The Environment; Dubai Islamic Bank: Early Response; First Islamic Banking Conference-May 1979, Dubai; Development and Challenges; DIB, UAE, and Corporate Governance; Hajj Saeed, Dubai, and the Islamic Economy; Forty Years On; The Last Word; Chapter 3 The Well of Influence; Germination; Catalysis: The Establishment of Dar Al-Maal Al-Islami; The Business of DMI: Navigating Uncharted Waters; Current Holdings

Forty Years On: ""The Aura Is Much Bigger than the Reality''""The Muslim World Went to Sleep''; ""Eventually, I Think, Everybody Will Become a Salafi''; The Last Word; Chapter 4 Steadily Spreading the Blessings; Spreading the Baraka; Gone West: Al Baraka in the United Kingdom; Advancing the Islamic Economy; Islamic Megabank; World Zakat Fund; The Halal Industry; Ask Not What the Community of Islamic Countries Can Do for You; Forty Years On: Mechanisms over Maqasid; The Last Word; Chapter 5 The Systematic Rise of a National Industry; Lead-up to the 1981 Decision; Influence #1: Tabung Haji

Influence #2: Tunku Abdul Rahman, the OIC, and the ID BInfluence #3: Prince Mohamed Al Faisal Al Saud; National Steering Committee and Establishing Bank Islam; Building an Industry Systematically; Setting the Pace and Character of Overall National Economic Development; Phase 1: 1983 to 1993-Establishment and Entrenchment; Shari'ah-Compliant Financial Instruments; Phase II: 1993 to 2000-Liberalisation and Expansion; On Growth and Development; Islamic Capital Market: Malaysia as a Global Sukuk Leader; A Model Nation for Islamic Finance; Phase III: 2000 and Beyond-Internationalisation

The Better System Thirty Years On: And Still Much More to Be Done; The Last Word; Chapter 6 The Islamic Economist; The Second Stage of Islamic Economics; Risk Transfer and the Global Financial Crisis; Advancing Risk Sharing for the Benefit of All Humanity; ""In Islam, the 'Other' Doesn't Exist''; IMF and Islamic Finance; Forty Years On: The Wood for the Trees; Building the Roads to a Better Economy; The Last Word; Chapter 7 The Global Standard-Setter; Accounting for a New Paradigm; AAOIFI: A Landmark in the History of Modern Islamic Finance; Setting the Standards

IFSB: Working with the Regulators

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed November 29, 2013).

ISBN:

9781118638804

1118638808

9781118465233

1118465237

9781118465219

1118465210

OCLC:

862050598