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This paper is concerned with analysing the procedures, practices, apparatuses and institutions involved in the production of the Islamic development discourse in order to identify what its main assumptions and policy implications are. The analysis will be offered in form of a Foucauldian genealogy, the main building blocks for which is an archive of the key concepts and theories that have been formulated in the fields of Islamic social theory and particularly Islamic economics, including some contemporary key institutional models and articulation of practices akin to development.

Hundreds of verses of the Quran deal with the spending of money, trade, social class, charity and other forms of economic transactions. While ideals and debates about the role of Islamic economics in the development process abound, this paper presents a case study of the role of Islamic economic practices in the development process in Egypt. Islamic economic practices are diverse and have distinct roles to play in society when aligned with requisite institutions.

The panel discusses ways to continue to develop global sukuk and Islamic securitization. The presentation highlights several case studies on sukuk issuances, including Nakheel