Islamic banking at the crossroads : theory versus practice / Zubair Hasan -- Islamic banking modes of finance : proposals for further evolution / Abdel-Rahman Yousri Ahmad -- Wealth mobilisation by Islamic banks : the Malaysian case / Sudin Haron and Badrul Hisham Kamaruddin -- Managing and measuring customer service quality in Islamic banks : a study of the Kuwait Finance House / Abdulqawi Radman Mohammed Othman and H. Lynn Owen -- The lending policies of Islamic banks in Iran / Nezamaddin Makiyan -- Efficiency in Arabian banking / Idries Al-Jarrah and Philip Molyneux -- Determinants of Islamic banking profitability / M. Kabir Hassan and Abdel-Hameed M. Bashir -- Allocative and technical inefficiency in Sudanese Islamic banks : an empirical investigation / Abd Elrhman Elzahi Saaid -- Islamic mortgages in the United Kingdom / Humayon A. Dar -- Wealth creation through takaful (Islamic insurance) / Mervyn K. Lewis -- Towards optimal risk management for profit-sharing finance / Seif I. Tag El-Din -- Stock market operation and equity price determination in an economy with an interest-free banking system : the case of Iran / Karim Eslamloueyan -- The demand for musharakah in urban Egypt by small business as a test of the pecking order hypothesis / Mohamed Nasr -- Islamic finance and venture capital : a practical approach / Saqib Rashid.