Publications

Maulana Justice Taqi Usmani

Islamic Finance by Maulana Justice Taqi Usmani is available now for download in .zip format. Book covers the following aspects of financial operations:

• Musharakah;
• Mudarabah;
• Combination of Musharakah and Mudarabah;
• Some objection on Musharakah Financing;
• Diminishing Musharakah;
• Murabahah;
• Some Issues involved in Murabahah;
• Ijarah;
• Salam and Istina;
• Principles of Shari'ah, Governing Islamic Investment Funds;
• The principle of Limited Liability.

(download the book: "Islamic_finance.zip", 158Kb)

Prof. Dr. Zubair Hasan - INCEIF

Theory of Profit, Vikas Publishing House, New Delhi 1975.

Introduction to MICROECONOMICS: An Islamic Perspective
Pearson Prentice Hall, Malaysia 2006 (Reprinted 2007).

Macroeconomics, Oxford University Press, October 2009.

Articles are organized either by author or by subject.

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By Author

Zubair Hasan
Mahmoud El Gamal
Mughees Shaukat
Obiyathulla Ismath Bacha

By Subject

Microfinance
Islamic Banking
General Islamic Finance

Two interpretive letters from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC):

OCC, "Letter states that United Bank of Kuwait's Federal Branch may enter into leases of real estate to serve the home finance needs of its Muslim customers, who are prohibited by religious principles from obtaining traditional mortgages" (pdf), Interpretive Letter 806, December 1997.

• Download this file as .pdf (OCC), 64Kb

OCC, "Islamic Murabaha financing transactions, whereby a national bank acquires the property on behalf of the customer and then resells the property to the customer at a mark up on an installment basis, are permissible for national banks as part of the business of banking", Interpretive Letter 867, November 1999

• Download this file as .pdf (OCC), 48Kb

Presentation on a microfinance project in Brunei created by Dr. Saad Al-Harran. The title of the presentation is "Islamic Microfinance Project Enterprises-Tutong District: Managing the Challenges". It is available in PDF format.

Articles on Islamic finance & banking available online

• Boorstein, Michelle. "A Financial Model Fit for Islam," The Washington Post, May 7, 2006: C01.
• Articles on Islamic finance from the New York Times, Detroit Free Press, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston and others available online from the University Islamic Financial Corporation.