As an emerging global phenomenon, Islamic economics and the financial system has expanded exponentially in recent decades. Many components of the industry are still unknown, but hopefully, the lack of awareness will soon be stilled. The Handbook of Research on Theory and Practice of Global Islamic Finance provides emerging research on the latest global Islamic economic practices. The content within this publication examines risk management, economic justice, and stock market analysis. It is designed for financiers, banking professionals, economists, policymakers, researchers, academicians, and students interested in ideas centered on the development and practice of Islamic finance.

The editing of a handbook of research on Global Islamic Finance is more exciting and challenging than ever before. The past three decades have been an eventful one for the proponents of Islamic finance. Islamic Finance has become a buzzword from G20 to World Economic Forum to global and national economic agendas. Today Islamic Finance is being considered as a key driver of alternate financing in Muslim and non-Muslims countries alike. It has enabled the birth of new financial products based on Shari'ah principles.During the primitive years of Islam, the savings and investments were based on participation and due to the availability of finance on profit and loss basis, there was no interest in the international trade of Muslim countries (Siddiqi, 1983; El-Gammal, 2000; Chapra & Khan, 2000). However, the situation had changed in the early fifteenth century when interest started replacing profit and loss sharing, slowly and steadily. After the revival of Islamic financial system in 20th century (El-Ashker, 1987), during last three decades, a number of Shari'ah compliant products and services are being introduced around the globe and are being offered in the areas of general banking, consumer banking, investment banking, trade finance and SME Financing. The underlying Islamic mode of these products and services are Mudarabah, Diminishing Musharakah, Murabaha, Salam, Istisna, Ijarah, Qard Hasna, Agency and Sale, and others.This volume is organized into eleven sections that consist of 44 chapters by writers from 26 countries. 79 Authors contributed from disparate parts of the world; USA(2), Mauritius(1), UK(1), Nigeria(4), Singapore(1), Uzbekistan(1), Korea(1), Sri Lanka(2), France(1), Brunei(1), Netherlands(1), Malaysia(36), Japan(1), Tunisia(2), Australia(3), Luxembourg(2), Palestine(1), Turkey(2), Saudi Arabia(2), Bangladesh(2), India(2), Indonesia(3), Pakistan(4), Oman(1), Qatar(1) and Sudan(1).

Black money and financial crime are emerging global phenomena. During the last few decades, corrupt financial practices were increasingly being monitored in many countries around the globe. Among a large number of problems is a lack of general awareness about all these issues among various stakeholders including researchers and practitioners. The Handbook of Research on Theory and Practice of Financial Crimes is a critical scholarly research publication that provides comprehensive research on all aspects of black money and financial crime in individual, organizational, and societal experiences. The book further examines the implications of white-collar crime and practices to enhance forensic audits on financial fraud and the effects on tax enforcement. Featuring a wide range of topics such as ethical leadership, cybercrime, and blockchain, this book is ideal for policymakers, academicians, business professionals, managers, IT specialists, researchers, and students.

From an Islamic perspective, although the ownership of wealth is with God, humans are gifted with wealth to manage it with the objective of benefiting the human society. Such guidance means that wealth management is a process involving the accumulation, generation, purification, preservation and distribution of wealth, all to be conducted carefully in permissible ways. This book is the first to lay out a coherent framework on how wealth management should be conducted in compliance with guiding principles from edicts of a major world religion.

This handbook offers a unique and original collection of analytical studies in Islamic economics and finance, and constitutes a humble addition to the literature on new economic thinking and global finance. The growing risks stemming from higher debt, slower growth, and limited room for policy maneuver raise concerns about the ability and propensity of modern economies to find effective solutions to chronic problems. It is important to understand the structural roots of inherent imbalance, persistence-in-error patterns, policy and governance failures, as well as moral and ethical failures. Admittedly, finance and economics have their own failures, with abstract theory bearing little relation with the real economy, uncertainties and vicissitudes of economic life. Economic research has certainly become more empirical despite, or perhaps because of, the lack of guidance from theory. The analytics of Islamic economics and finance may not differ from standard frameworks, methods, and techniques used in conventional economics, but may offer new perspectives on the making of financial crises, nature of credit cycles, roots of financial system instability, and determinants of income disparities. The focus is placed on the logical coherence of Islamic economics and finance, properties of Islamic capital markets, workings of Islamic banking, pricing of Islamic financial instruments, and limits of debt financing, fiscal stimulus and conventional monetary policies, inter alia. Readers with investment, regulatory, and academic interests will find the body of analytical evidence to span many areas of economic inquiry, refuting thereby the false argument that given its religious tenets, Islamic economics is intrinsically narrative, descriptive and not amenable to testable implications. Thus, the handbook may contribute toward a redefinition of a dismal science in search for an elusive balance between rationality, ethics and morality, and toward a remodeling of economies based on risk sharing and prosperity for all humanity