Islamic financial markets / / edited by Rodney Wilson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910812247703321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon, : Routledge, 2012
• ISBN: 1-136-29714-6; 1-280-68479-8; 9786613661739; 0-203-11599-6; 1-136-29715-4
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (257 p.)
• Collana: Routledge library editions. Banking & finance ; ; v. 35
• Altri autori (Persone): WilsonRodney
• Disciplina: 332.091767; 332.0917671; 332/.0917/671
• Soggetti: Banks and banking - Islamic countries; Banks and banking - Religious aspects - Islam; Finance - Islamic countries
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Originally published in 1990 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ISLAMIC FINANCIAL MARKETS; Copyright; Islamic Financial Markets; Original Copyright; CONTENTS; LIST OF TABLES; LIST OF FIGURES; INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 RETAIL DEVELOPMENT AND WHOLESALE POSSIBILITIES; Chapter 2 COMPETITION IN ISLAMIC BANKING; Chapter 3 TURKEY: ISLAMIC BANKING IN A SECULARIST CONTEXT; Chapter 4 EGYPT: AN EVALUATION OF THE MAJOR ISLAMIC BANKS; Chapter 5 SUDAN: THE ROLE OF THE FAISAL ISLAMIC BANK; Chapter 6 JORDAN: THE EXPERIENCE OF THE JORDAN ISLAMIC BANK; Chapter 7 KUWAIT: ISLAMIC BANKING FOR A CONSUMER SOCIETY; Chapter 8 IRAN: THE IMPACT OF ISLAMIZATION ON THE FINANCIAL SYSTEM; Chapter 9 PAKISTAN: MAIN PARTICIPANTS AND FINAL FINANCIAL PRODUCTS OF THE ISLAMIZATION PROCESSChapter 10 SAUDI ARABIA: THE ISLAMIC DEVELOPMENT BANK'S ROLE AS A PAN-MUSLIM AGENCY; NOTES; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: When it was originally published this volume was the first ; comprehensive survey of the experience of Islamic banking throughout the Muslim world in Turkey, Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Sudan, iran, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. Drawing comparisons between the countries in economic terms, it shows that the success of Islamic banks to a large extent reflects the immediate political environment. The complete Islamization of the financial systems of the more fundamentalist countries of Iran and Pakistan is compared with the divide between conventional interest-based systems and the new Islamic banks in