1. Islamic social thought / Imad Ahmad -- 2. Riba and interest / Fazlur Rahman -- 3. Riba in contemporary literature / Muhammad Akram Khan -- 4. Elimination of Riba : concept and problems. Response to the Supreme Court questionnaire / Khurshid Ahmad -- 5. Pakistan and the question of Riba / Izzud-Din Pal -- 6. Time value of money and discounting in Islamic perspective / M. Fahim Khan -- 7. Islamic economics and the Islamic subeconomy / Timur Kuran -- 8. Is it necessary to have Islamic : economics? / M. Umer Chapra -- 9. Islam and financial intermediation / Ingo Karsten -- 10. Portfolio management of Islamic banks : "certainty model" / B.A. Bashir -- 11. Islamic interest-free banking : a theoretical analysis / Mohsin S. Khan -- 12. Islamic economics : the emergence of a new paradigm / John R. Presley and John G. Sessions -- 13. capital structure of Islamic banks under the contractual obligation of profit sharing / Talla Al-Deehani, Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim and Victor Murinde -- 14. Islamic banks : concept, precept and prospects / Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi -- 15. Shari'ah and its implications for Islamic financial analysis : an opportunity to study interactions among society, organization, and accounting / Cyril Tomkins and Rif'at Ahmed 'Abdul Karim -- 16. independence of religious and external auditors : the case of Islamic banks / Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim -- 17. Islamic banking : issues in prudential regulations and supervision / Luca Errico and Mitra Farahbaksh -- 18. capital adequacy framework for Islamic banks : the need to reconcile depositors' risk aversion with managers' risk taking / Dadang Muljawan, Humayon A. Dar and Maximilian J.B. Hall -- 19. Islamization of insurance -- a religio-legal experiment in Malaysia / Syed Khalid Rashid -- 20. Comparative study of insurance and Takafol (Islamic insurance) / Muhammad Anwar -- 21. Awqaf in history and its implications for modern Islamic economies / Murat Cizakca -- 22. Islamic banks and investment financing / Rajesh K. Aggarwal and Tarik Yousef -- 23. Financing microenterprises : an analytical study of Islamic microfinance institutions / Habib Ahmed -- 24. Cost of capital and investment in a non-interest economy / Abbas Mirakhor -- 25. Financial engineering with Islamic options / Mohammed Obaidullah -- 26. Involving Islamic banks in Central Bank open market operations / Mahmoud A. El-Gamal -- 27. Towards an objective measure of Gharar in exchange / Sami Al-Suwailem -- 28. Pricing asset backed Islamic financial instruments / Muhammed-Shahid Ebrahim.