Studies in Islamic finance

The book by Dr. Ashraf Mohamed Dowaab The Islamic financial industry has witnessed remarkable development and increasing growth until Islamic financial institutions established themselves in the global financial environment, and Islamic finance has become a tangible reality, an important approach, an added value to the global economic reality, and a bridge for connectivity between the Islamic world and the Western world. Within this framework, this book aims to reveal some aspects of Islamic finance, which possesses distinctive, diverse, and renewable means that other traditional systems do not have. The book studies: • Foundations and mechanisms for developing financing and investment methods in Islamic banks. • An Islamic perspective on tradable deposit certificates. • An Islamic view on financial leasing. • The relationship between the central bank and Islamic banks (an applied study on Egypt). • Tools and experiences for Islamic finance in the oil and gas sector and establishing a development mechanism. • A financing vision for developing the Islamic endowment system. • A mechanism for localizing migrated Arab funds. • The problem of financing small and medium enterprises in Arab countries and establishing an Islamic mechanism for their development. • The Islamic perspective on financial derivatives contracts.