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Providing a comprehensive account of the progress, potential and
challenges facing Islamic finance in Eurasia, this prescient book
explores Islamic finance’s history and development across the
Asian and European continents and argues that in order for this
market to continue to prosper, innovation and adaptation is a
necessity. Islamic Finance in Eurasia brings together a wealth of
expert scholars, making a significant contribution to the emerging
literature available on this topic. Chapters cover in depth the
progress, potential, innovative practices and challenges of Islamic
finance in Eurasia, analysing selected case studies from the
region. This incisive book argues that sustainable and inclusive
Islamic finance has the potential to promote economic growth,
reduce poverty and increase financial independence. Offering an
extensive overview of the topic, this book will prove a highly
beneficial read for students and researchers interested in
understanding both the efficacies and challenges of adopting
Islamic finance in this region. Islamic finance stakeholders,
policymakers and regional standard setting bodies will also find
this book an invaluable resource.
Islamic Social Finance provides an introduction to the Waqf system,
which has played a significant socio-economic role throughout the
history of Islamic civilization. In a contemporary framework, Waqf
creates new networks between micro-entrepreneurs, Small and Medium
Sized Enterprises (SMEs), and entrepreneurship through voluntary
donations made by individuals in a society. In other contexts, Waqf
supports the financial system and contributes to the UN sustainable
development goals (SDGs). The authors explore the relationship
between the roles Waqf plays in realizing the SDGs, its
contributions in many sectors of the economy, and the Waqf
practices among the Southeast Asia countries, particularly
Malaysia. They highlight the existing Waqf models and framework
that have been used by many countries for entrepreneurship that can
be used or adapted for the benefits of SMEs. This book is a
comprehensive overview for academics, postgraduate students,
entrepreneurs, and policy makers who wish to understand how Waqf
can contribute to the economic progress of individuals and society
at large.
Islamic Finance in Africa discusses the progress, issues and
innovations in African Islamic financial markets. It provides a
comprehensive overview of Islamic finance in Africa by exploring
legal, regulatory and governance challenges while balancing the
issues and innovations found in both Islamic commercial and social
finance. The chapters in the book can be broadly classified into
three parts. The first part covers legal, regulatory and governance
developments and issues of Islamic finance in Africa, the second
part deals with issues and innovations in Islamic commercial
finance, and the third explores issues and innovations in Islamic
social finance. The editors use a case study format to present the
topic in discussion effectively and provide insight into actual or
potential areas of growth. Scholars and Islamic finance
stakeholders, including research and education institutes, will
find this book invaluable in understanding this important topic and
region. In depth case studies allow the reader to zoom into
selected markets to understand issues/innovation in detail. This
book also will be useful to policymakers and regional standard
setting bodies, including multilateral and humanitarian agencies,
in understanding the potential of Islamic finance in financial
inclusion and resolving humanitarian crises.
This original book examines how investment theory and regulatory
constraints are linked to the professional processes of portfolio
investments, and how the principles of Islam as defined by sharia
fit into these processes. It also explores the measures required to
create and grow a global Islamic asset management industry.
Established on a foundation of Modern Portfolio Theory, the book
extends the theory to include asset management based on sharia.
Chapters also consider how ethical investing is quickly becoming
the driving force of the $100 trillion asset management industry.
Taking a practical approach, John A. Sandwick, M. Kabir Hassan and
Pablo Collazzo compare conventional and sharia portfolio
performance and risk through measurement tools commonly used in
asset management, including Sharpe ratio, standard deviation, Value
at Risk, annualized mean return, and correlation. They map
conventional portfolio construction and optimization, then
reproduce the same processes with real-world, sharia-compliant
portfolios. This book will be critical reading for scholars and
students of Islamic economics and finance, Islamic studies, and
financial regulation. Considering Islamic asset management as a
unique function of Islamic finance, this book will also be a useful
resource for practitioners and finance professionals.
Islamic finance refers to methods of undertaking banking and
financial transactions that are in conformity with the precepts of
Islam. As such, the system offers a challenge to conventional
Western ways of thinking about financing. This indispensable set of
papers brings together the most important previously published
papers on the subject of Islamic Finance from the last four
decades. Issues explored include: the prohibition on interest;
financing instruments; accounting and regulatory issues;
institutional structures and recent developments.
Most books on fractals focus on deterministic fractals as the
impact of incorporating randomness and time is almost absent.
Further, most review fractals without explaining what scaling and
self-similarity means. This book introduces the idea of scaling,
self-similarity, scale-invariance and their role in the dimensional
analysis. For the first time, fractals emphasizing mostly on
stochastic fractal, and multifractals which evolves with time
instead of scale-free self-similarity, are discussed. Moreover, it
looks at power laws and dynamic scaling laws in some detail and
provides an overview of modern statistical tools for calculating
fractal dimension and multifractal spectrum.
Most books on fractals focus on deterministic fractals as the
impact of incorporating randomness and time is almost absent.
Further, most review fractals without explaining what scaling and
self-similarity means. This book introduces the idea of scaling,
self-similarity, scale-invariance and their role in the dimensional
analysis. For the first time, fractals emphasizing mostly on
stochastic fractal, and multifractals which evolves with time
instead of scale-free self-similarity, are discussed. Moreover, it
looks at power laws and dynamic scaling laws in some detail and
provides an overview of modern statistical tools for calculating
fractal dimension and multifractal spectrum.
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