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Ryan Calder

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Description:The first commercial Islamic bank was founded in 1975. Today, Islamic finance is a $1.6 trillion global industry that has been growing at over 20% per year since the year 2000. It offers financial products ranging from Islamic auto loans to Islamic derivatives, all of which adhere to rules derived from Islamic texts — most notably a ban on interest.In light of the short history and sudden growth of Islamic finance, this dissertation asks three main questions. First, why is there a thriving Islamic finance industry today, yet no other large-scale form of religious finance — no Christian-finance industry or Jewish-finance industry, for example? Second, why has Islamic finance grown so fast, especially since 2000? And third, how do Islamic financial institutions manage to offer the same kinds of products that conventional financial institutions do while remaining "Islamic"?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sacred Profit: A Sociology of Islamic Finance. To get started finding Sacred Profit: A Sociology of Islamic Finance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: The first commercial Islamic bank was founded in 1975. Today, Islamic finance is a $1.6 trillion global industry that has been growing at over 20% per year since the year 2000. It offers financial products ranging from Islamic auto loans to Islamic derivatives, all of which adhere to rules derived from Islamic texts — most notably a ban on interest.In light of the short history and sudden growth of Islamic finance, this dissertation asks three main questions. First, why is there a thriving Islamic finance industry today, yet no other large-scale form of religious finance — no Christian-finance industry or Jewish-finance industry, for example? Second, why has Islamic finance grown so fast, especially since 2000? And third, how do Islamic financial institutions manage to offer the same kinds of products that conventional financial institutions do while remaining "Islamic"?We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Sacred Profit: A Sociology of Islamic Finance. To get started finding Sacred Profit: A Sociology of Islamic Finance, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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