Globalization and Islamic Finance: Convergence, Prospects, and Challenges

Preface.Chapter 1. A Brief History of Globalization and Islamic Finance.1.1. A Brief History of Globalization.1.2. How Complete is Globalization?1.3. A Brief Introduction to Islamic Finance.1.4. Islamic Finance and Globalization: Convergence or Divergence?Chapter 2. The Consequences of Globalization: Convergence or Divergence with Islam?2.1. Theoretical Consequences of Globalization Growth, Income Distribution, Poverty Alleviation, and Regulation.2.2. Some Empirical Consequences of Globalization.2.3. Financial Globalization.2.4. Basic Islamic Economic and Financial Doctrines and Globalization.2.5. Convergence or Divergence?Chapter 3. Islamic Finance, Conventional Finance, and Globalization.3.1. The Development of Islamic Finance.3.2. The Development of Conventional Finance.3.3. Islamic and Conventional Finance: The Impact of Globalization.3.4. Financial Stability and the Emerging relationship between Islamic and Conventional Finance.Chapter 4. Recent Developments in Conventional Finance, Financial Globalization, and Islamic Finance.4.1. Introduction.4.2. The Role of Financial Systems and the Stability Characteristics of the Conventional Financial System.4.3. A Different Explanation for the Financial Crisis of 2007.4.4. Islamic Financial System and Lessons from the Recent Crisis.4.5. Summary.Chapter 5. Empirical Trends in Conventional and Islamic Financial Globalization.5.1. Trends in Conventional Financial Globalization.5.2. Growth in Islamic Finance.5.3. Convergence or Divergence?Chapter 6. Key consideration sin Developing an Islamic Financial System.6.1. Lessons from the Conventional Financial System.6.2. Gaps in the Islamic Financial System and its Practice.6.3. Policy Recommendations.6.4. Concluding Remarks.Chapter 7. Conclusions and the Future of Islamic Finance.7.1. The Future of Globalization.7.2. The Evolution of Financial Globalization.7.3. The Expansion of Risk Sharing.7.4. The Likelihood of Convergence.References.Index.

PROF. HOSSEIN ASKARI received a B.S. in Civil Engineering, Ph.D. in Economics and attended the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He was an Instructor of Economics at MIT, Assistant Professor of Economics at Tufts University, Associate Professor of Economics at Wayne State University, Associate Professor and Professor of International Business and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is now the Iran Professor of International Business and Professor of International Affairs at the George Washington University. He served for two and a half years on the Executive Board of the IMF and was Special Advisor to the Minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia. In the mid-1980s, he was the director of a multinational team that developed the first energy planning models for Saudi Arabia. He has written extensively on economic development in the Middle East, international trade and finance, agricultural economics, oil economics, and on economic sanctions. He has been an advisor to a number of governments, institutions and corporations. DR. ZAMIR IQBAL works as Lead Investment Officer with the Quantitative Strategies, Risk and Analytics department in the Treasury of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He earned his Ph.D. in International Finance from the George Washington University, where he also serves as adjunct faculty of International Finance. He has published numerous articles and presented at international forums on Islamic finance. He has extensive experience with capital markets, structured products, risk management, financial sector development, and financial modeling. His research interests include Islamic Finance, Financial Engineering, Structured Finance and International Banking. He is co-author of Introduction to Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice (2007), Risk Analysis for Islamic Banks (2007), and New Issues in Islamic Finance and Economics: Progress and Challenges (2009). DR. ABBAS MIRAKHOR , born