Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Contemporary Islamic economic thought / Mohammad Omar Farooq -- The legal framework of Islamic finance / Cynthia Shawamreh -- Globalization and Islamic finance : flows and consciousness / Karen Hunt-Ahmed -- Islamic science and the critique of neoclassical economic theory / Waleed El-Ansary -- Juristic disagreement : the collective fatwā against Islamic banking in Pakistan / Shoaib A. Ghias -- Managing liquidity risk in Islamic finance / Dr. Muhammad Al-Bashir Muhammad Al-Amine -- Elements of Islamic wealth management / Paul Wouters -- Sukūk and the Islamic capital markets : an introduction / Michael J.T. McMillen -- Sharía compliant mutual funds / Monem Salam -- The evolution of shariah-compliant indexes and why they outperform conventional indexes over the long term / Tariq Al-Rifai -- Takaful / Farrukh Siddiqui -- Islamic human resources practices / William Marty Martin -- An integrated islamic poverty alleviation model / Ali Ashraf and M. Kabir Hassan -- How does an Islamic microfinance model play the key role in poverty alleviation? : the European perspective / Sabur Mollah and M. Hamid Uddin -- Case studies -- Islamic finance in an almost postcrisis and postrevolutionary world : as in politics, all Islamic finance is local / Mark Smyth -- Stepping forward, backward, or just standing still? : a case study in shifting Islamic financial structures offshore / Umar F. Moghul -- Islamic mortgages / David Loundy -- Sharia quality rating / Nasir Ali Merchant -- Islamic mutual funds performance in Saudi Arabia / Hesham Merdad and M. Kabir Hassan -- Shariah-compliant real estate investment in the United States / John L. Opar -- Risk and derivatives in Islamic finance : a shariah analysis / Dr. Muhammad Al-Bashir Muhammad Al-Amine -- Islamic microfinance / Blake Goud -- About the editor -- Index.