This book explores the tensions between the religious and legal principles of Islamic finance and Islamic banking in practice. It does not limit itself to a legal discussion and presents a truly interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue between lawyers, theologians, and economists with roots in academia and practice. There is considerable divergence in their evaluation of the status quo and future of Islamic finance.Contributions cover aspects of Islamic finance in theory and practice. It provides insights into the interplay of religion, ethics and finance covering both the Islamic and Christian traditions that sets the scene for Islamic finance in practice: economic technicalities of Islamic banking services, its regulatory aspects, and the complex legal arrangements of Islamic finance in non-Muslim-majority countries. Islamic Finance is a truly international collaboration of outstanding scholars and practitioners in their field that reveals the complexities involved in applying religious principles and legal theory to the daily practice of business and finance.

The Wieczorek/Schutze commentary covers German law of Civil Procedure (ZPO). The third edition comprises 13 volumes plus an index volume and includes 12,800 pages of detailed and comprehensive information on the law of civil procedure. Alongside the ZPO and EGZPO (Introductory Law to the Law of Civil Procedure) the international Law of Civil Procedure, including the new 11th book of the ZPO, as well as Judicature Law and its introductory law are covered. Alongside questions of jurisdiction the commentaries particularly consider service in the EU member states of judicial and extrajudicial documents and the European Law of Civil Procedure. The commentary is tailored to meet the demands and requirements of civil law practitioners. The team of authors includes judges, lawyers and professors. Twelve volumes of the third edition have so far been published. The edition will be completed mid-2009.

Mit der Geschichte des Rechts der Sharī῾a von Fikret Kar�ić liegt eine erste innerislamische Gesamtdarstellung der islamischen Rechtsgeschichte in deutscher Sprache vor. Nach einer methodologischen Einführung und einem Überblick über das Recht der vorislamischen Araber schließt sich eine Geschichte des Rechts der Sharī῾a an, die durch einen Abriss der islamischen Rechtsgeschichte auf dem Westbalkan ergänzt wird. In jedem Kapitel wird zunächst der geschichtliche und gesellschaftliche Rahmen umrissen, an dessen Darstellung sich Abschnitte zu den Rechtsquellen sowie zu Rechtswissenschaft und Rechtspraxis anschließen.