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Islamic Financial Services in the United Kingdom / Elaine Housby.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Guides to Islamic Finance : EGIFPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780748639977
  • 9780748644872
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • HG186.G7 H68 2011eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF ISLAMIC FINANCIAL SERVICES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- CHAPTER 3 PERSONAL ACCOUNTS -- CHAPTER 4 PERSONAL FINANCE -- CHAPTER 5 HOME FINANCE -- CHAPTER 6 TAKAFUL -- CHAPTER 7 INVESTMENTS AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT -- CHAPTER 8 SUKUK -- CHAPTER 9 BUSINESS FINANCE -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INDEX
Summary: This is the first book-length study of Islamic financial services in the United Kingdom. It describes the ways in which British examples of Islamic financial provision illustrate both the main characteristics of Islamic financial teaching and some key issues in the situation of British Muslims. Coverage of the subject is comprehensive: there are chapters on the history of Islamic finance in the UK and on personal accounts, home purchase finance, the equivalents of personal loans and insurance, investment, commercial funding and the relatively new bond-like instruments of sukuk.The author's approach is broadly sympathetic to the general spirit and aims of the Islamic financial tradition but critical of some of its manifestations in practice.The book is especially topical at present, following the crisis in the UK banking industry and the unprecedented level of public debate about the appropriate aims and techniques of the financial markets. Some commentators have recently expressed disappointment that Islamic finance in the UK has failed to live up to the high expectations surrounding it. This book attempts to give a balanced account of the sector's strengths and weaknesses.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 2 HISTORY OF ISLAMIC FINANCIAL SERVICES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM -- CHAPTER 3 PERSONAL ACCOUNTS -- CHAPTER 4 PERSONAL FINANCE -- CHAPTER 5 HOME FINANCE -- CHAPTER 6 TAKAFUL -- CHAPTER 7 INVESTMENTS AND WEALTH MANAGEMENT -- CHAPTER 8 SUKUK -- CHAPTER 9 BUSINESS FINANCE -- CONCLUSION -- GLOSSARY AND ABBREVIATIONS -- INDEX

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This is the first book-length study of Islamic financial services in the United Kingdom. It describes the ways in which British examples of Islamic financial provision illustrate both the main characteristics of Islamic financial teaching and some key issues in the situation of British Muslims. Coverage of the subject is comprehensive: there are chapters on the history of Islamic finance in the UK and on personal accounts, home purchase finance, the equivalents of personal loans and insurance, investment, commercial funding and the relatively new bond-like instruments of sukuk.The author's approach is broadly sympathetic to the general spirit and aims of the Islamic financial tradition but critical of some of its manifestations in practice.The book is especially topical at present, following the crisis in the UK banking industry and the unprecedented level of public debate about the appropriate aims and techniques of the financial markets. Some commentators have recently expressed disappointment that Islamic finance in the UK has failed to live up to the high expectations surrounding it. This book attempts to give a balanced account of the sector's strengths and weaknesses.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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