Transformation of Islamic Law in Global Financial Markets

Informationen zum Autor Jonathan G. Ercanbrack is Lecturer in the Law of Islamic Finance and Assistant Director of the Centre for Islamic and Middle Eastern Law at SOAS, University of London. Klappentext This contextual analysis of Islamic financial law challenges our understanding of both Islamic law and global financial markets. Zusammenfassung Jonathan Ercanbrack examines the municipal legal systems of the United Kingdom! Bahrain! the United Arab Emirates and the Dubai International Financial Centre in order to illustrate globalisation's acceleration of legal! economic and social production. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The sharia: sources, legal theory and unofficial sources of law; 3. Islamic commercial doctrine and classical commercial transactions; 4. Global financial markets and legal transformation; 5. Vehicular legal systems: the legislative implementation of sharia principles; 6. The regulation of Islamic financial institutions in the United Kingdom; 7. The regulation of Islamic financial institutions in Bahrain; 8. The regulation of Islamic financial institutions in the United Arab Emirates; 9. The regulation of Islamic financial institutions in the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC); 10. The enforcement of non-national legal systems: the arbitration of Islamic financial disputes; 11. Conclusion.

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• Authors: Jonathan Ercanbrack, Jonathan (School of Oriental and Afric Ercanbrack, Jonathan (School of Oriental and African Studies Ercanbrack, Ercanbrack Jonathan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2015
• EAN: 9781107061507
• ISBN: 978-1-107-06150-7
• No. of pages: 424
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; Law, Finance, LAW / Banking, Middle Eastern history, International Finance, Financial law: general, Systems of law: Islamic law, Banking law