Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/05f09f/introduction_to_is) has announced the addition of John Wiley and Sons Ltd’s new book “Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance” to their offering.

“Introduction to Islamic Banking and Finance” is a succinct guide to the key characteristics of Islamic banking highlighting how these differ from conventional banking.

This detailed book illustrates how Islamic banking is consistent with the Sharia’a, a key element of which is the prohibition on collecting and paying interest. This central religious precept appears to rule out most aspects of modern finance but it does allow money to be used for trading tangible assets and business, which can then generate a profit.

Brian Kettell’s book looks at all aspects of Islamic banking, including chapters on its creation and evolution through to detailed discussions of the issues involved in the Sharia’a contracts of Murabaha, Mudaraba, Musharaka, Ijara, Istisna’a, and Salam.

Islamic insurance (Takaful) is also covered. Finally the book takes a look at Sharia’a law and Sharia’a boards, indicating the roles and responsibilities that come with membership.

Key Topics Covered:

1. Muslim Beliefs

2. Sharia’a Law and Sharia’a Boards: Roles, Responsibility and Membership

3. Definition of Islamic Banking

4. Murabaha as a Mode of Islamic Finance

5. Mudaraba as a Mode of Islamic Finance

6. Musharaka as a Mode of Islamic Finance

7. Ijara as a Mode of Islamic Finance

8. Istisna’a as a Mode of Islamic Finance

9. Salam as a Mode of Islamic Finance

10. Takaful: Islamic Insurance

Author:

Brian Kettell has a wealth of practical experience in the area of Islamic banking and finance. He worked for several years as an Advisor for the Central Bank of Bahrain where he had numerous Islamic banking responsibilities.

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Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/89690e/redeeming_economic) has announced the addition of the “Redeeming Economics: Rediscovering the Missing Element” book to their offering.

Economics is primed for a revolution, says respected economic forecaster John D. Mueller. To make this leap forward will require looking backward, for as Redeeming Economics reveals, the most important element of economic theory has been ignored for more than two centuries.

Since the great Adam Smith tore down this pillar of economic thought, economic theory has had no way to account for a fundamental aspect of human experience: the social relationships that define us, the loves (and hates) that motivate and distinguish us as persons. In trying to reduce human behavior to mere exchanges, modern economists have lost sight of how these essential motivations are expressed: as gifts (or their opposite, crimes). Mueller makes economics whole again, masterfully reapplying economic thought as articulated by Aristotle, Augustine, and Aquinas.

Contrarian and compelling, Redeeming Economics covers everything from unemployment, to inflation, to the economics of parenthood, to the greatest geopolitical challenge facing the United States, to flaws in the mega-bestseller Freakonomics, to the author’s illuminating exchange with the controversial philosopher Peter Singer.

Key Topics Covered:

Contents

Introduction: Rediscovering the Missing Element in Economics

Part 1: The Birth, Death, and Resurrection of Economics

Chapter 1: Smithology and Its Discontents

Chapter 2: Scholastic Economics (c. 1250-1776)

Chapter 3: Classical Economics (1776-1871)

Chapter 4: Neoclassical Economics (1871-c. 2000)

Chapter 5: Neo-Scholastic Economics (c. 2000-)

Part 2: Personal Economy

Chapter 6: The Mother’s Problem and Augustine’s Solution

Chapter 7: The Success and Failure of Neoclassical Economics

Chapter 8: An Empirical Test: Fatherhood and Homicide

Chapter 9: The Moral Implications of Scarcity: The Good Samaritan Paradigm

Part 3: Domestic Economy

Chapter 10: Marriage, the First Natural Bond of Human Society

Chapter 11: Why Do Parents Give Children Existence, Rearing, and Instruction?

Chapter 12: How Neo-Scholastic Economics Explains Our Life Earnings and Spending

Part 4: Political Economy

Chapter 13: Saving America’s Infant Industry

Chapter 14: The Theory of American Public Choice

Chapter 15: Injustice in Exchange: Unemployment

Chapter 16: Injustice in Exchange: Inflation

Part 5: Divine Economy

Chapter 17: The Three Worldviews

For more information visit http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/89690e/redeeming_economic