Understanding Shari'a Finance

by Patrick Sookhdeo

Overview

The last twenty years have seen a distinctively Islamic financial system become a major player on the world economic stage. Many Muslims have rejected Western financial products and institutions, believing them to be incompatible with sharia, and have generated a wide range of alternatives. This book explains how this movement is part of the Islamist agenda to subvert and subjugate Western systems under the rule of Islam, and draws out its implications for global finance and politics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780991614509
Publisher:	Isaac Publishing
Publication date:	06/30/2014
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	114
File size:	466 KB

About the Author

Patrick Sookhdeo studied at London Bible College, later obtaining a Ph.D. at London University. For 23 years he was involved in pastoral, church planting and training ministry in the East End of London. He is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Islam and Christianity, Dean Theologian of the Diocese of Abuja in Nigeria and non-residentiary Canon of Peshawar Diocese, Pakistan. He is also a senior adviser and consultant on security and military issues. Lecturer and author of 30 books.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Chapter 1: History and theology, Chapter 2: The controversy over the meaning of Riba, Chapter 3: Additional aspects of an Islamic economy, Chapter 4: Muslim critique of Islamic economics, Chapter 5: Islamist triumph, Chapter 6: Shari’a finance as jihad, Chapter 7: Dangers and vulnerabilities of Shari’a finance, Chapter 8: Efforts at regulating the Shari’a experts in Islamic finance sector, Chapter 9: The role of Shari’a experts in Islamic finance, Chapter 10: Shari’a lists for trading, Chapter 11: Impact of Shari’a compliance, Chapter 12: Conclusion, Appendices, Instruments of Shari’a finance, Shari’a finance in Muslim states, Islamic economics in the West: manipulating Darura, Shari’a finance in some other non-Muslim states, Shari’a, Further reading, Endnotes.