TY - BOOK AU - Karim,Shafiel A. TI - The Islamic moral economy: a study of Islamic money and financial instruments SN - 9781599425399 (paper) AV - HG3368.A6 K37 2010 U1 - 332.10917'67 23 PY - 2010/// CY - Boca Raton, Fla. PB - Brown Walker Press KW - Banks and banking KW - Islamic countries. KW - Banking law (Islamic law) KW - Finance KW - Religious aspects KW - Islam KW - Economics N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 109-133) N2 - Analyses the religious permissibility or lack thereof of the existing repertoire of financial instruments used in Islamic banking and finance. It also examines the utopian nature of the Islamic moral economy with a special emphasis in riba (financial interest and illogical increase), which is inescapable in the global economy, and therefore insoluble within the framework of the Islamic Moral Economy ER -