Islamic Finance: Principles, Performance and Prospects

Introduction; TinaHarrison and Essam Ibrahim.- Chapter 1: Toward a comprehensive theoreticalframework for Shariah governance in Islamic financial institutions; SitiNormala Sheikh Obid and Babak Naysary.- Chapter 2: Developing the IslamicFinancial Services sector in Italy: An institutional theory perspective; BarbaraPetracci and Hussain G Rammal.- Chapter 3: A comparative performance ofconventional and Islamic unit trusts: Market timing and persistence evidence; NafisAlam, Kin Boon Tang and Mohammad Shadique Rajjaque.- Chapter 4: Do customerspatronize Islamic banks for Shari'a compliance?; Shakir Ullah and Kun-ho Lee.- Chapter5: Islamic finance: Challenges and opportunities FREE; Hussain G Rammal.- Chapter6: Challenges and opportunities for Islamic retail banking in the Europeancontext: Lessons to be learnt from a British-German comparison; Stefan Volk andMarkus Pudelko.- Chapter 7:Bankers' perception towards Bai Salam method for agriculture financing inPakistan; Ahmad Kaleem and Saima Ahmad.- Chapter 8: Shariah-compliant equities:Empirical evaluation of performance in the European market during credit crunch;Nafis Alam and Mohammad Shadique Rajjaque.- Chapter 9: Productivity,technology and efficiency of De Novo Islamic banks: Empirical evidence fromMalaysia; Fadzlan Sufian.- Chapter 10: Bank-level stability factors andconsumer confidence - A comparative study of Islamic and conventional banks'product mix; Kassim Hussein.