This book published by Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, is the proceedings of the Third Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance, 2009. H.E Mohamed Al Faisal Al Saud had delivered the opening address in this forum. After the preface by Thomas D. Mullins and foreword by Samuel L. Hayes III, the book chapters are divided into four parts as:
Part I: Islamic Economics
Introduction / M. Nejatullah Siddiqi
Recovering the Islamic Economic Intellectual Heritage: Problems and Possibilities/ Waleed El-Ansary
Islamic Venture Capital: A Critical Examination / Masudul Alam Choudhury
An Economic Explication of the Prohibition of Riba in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence / Mahmoud A. El-Gamal
Islamic Banking and the Conduct of Monetary Policy: Lessons from the Islamic Republic of Iran / Ramin Cooper Maysami
Islamic Finance and Beyond: Premises and Promises of Islamic Economics / M. Nejatullah Siddiqi
Experimental Tests of the Homo Economicus: The Implications for the Research on Islamic Economics / Abdullah Yavas
Part II: The Shari’a
Introduction / Frank E. Vogel
Property Rights in Islam / Abdel-Hameed M. Bashir
Business Organizations under Islamic Law: A Brief Overview / Gohar Bilal
Investing in Equities: Some Issues from the Islamic Perspective / Shaikh Abdul Hamid
Toward the Revival of Awqaf: A Few Fiqhi Issues to Reconsider / Monzer Kahf
A Rahn-Adl Collateral Security Structure for Project and Secured Financings / Michael J.T. McMillen
Requirements to Be Fulfilled When Conventional Banks Set Up Islamic Banks, Windows, or Funds / Nizam Yaquby
Part III: Islamic Finance
Introduction / Mahmoud A. El-Gamal
Emerging Trends and Opportunities in the Islamic financial Industry / I. Malcolm Burnett
Analyzing the Creditworthiness of Islamic Financial Institutions / Andrew Cunningham
Islamic Finance- Sustaining Success / Koshy Zacharia Karuvelil
Developing the Country Framework for Islamic Finance / Iqbal Ahmad Khan
Designing Islamic Contracts for Financing Infrastructure Development / Mohammed Obaidullah
Islamic Banks- Technology and Global Challenges and Opportunities / Abdullah Sulaiman Al Rajhi
Islamic Convertible Bonds: An Alternative to Bay al-`Inah and Discounted Bay al-Dayn Islamic Bonds for the Global Islamic Capital Market / Saiful Azhar Rosly and Mohd. Azmi Omar
Cross-Border Ija-ra: A Case Study in the U.S. Taxation of Islamic Finance / Robert W. Toan
The Revitalization of Islamic Profit-and-loss Sharing / Ibrahim Warde
The Islamic Commodity Trust: With Application to Crude Oil Forward Sales / Rudy Yaksick
Part IV: Commercial Products, Business Models, and Other
Introduction / Iqbal Ahmad Khan
Applying Waqf Formula on a Global Basis / Khaled R. Al-Hajeri and Abdulkader Thomas
Cash-waqf Certificate: Global Opportunities for Developing the Social Capital Market in 21st-Century Voluntary-sector Banking / M.A. Mannan
The Role of the Dow Jones Islamic Market Index in Islamic Finance / David E. Moran
Islamic Project Finance- A Case Study of the Equate Petrochemical Company / Mohammad S. Al Omar
The Challenges of Offering a LARIBA Products and Services Window in an American Bank / Yahia Abdul-Rahman, Mike Abdelaaty, and Gary S. Findley
Islamic Banking in Bangladesh: Growth, Structure, and Performance / Md. Abdul Awwal Sarker