• My blog: Islam and Economics

• Islamic Finance: Law, Economics and Practice, Cambridge University Press, 2006. jacket back.

• Testimony on Islamic finance before Senate Banking Committee, July 13, 2005. (full hearing information, and realaudio recording of proceedings here)
•  “Overview of Islamic Finance,” U.S. Department of the Treasury, Office of International Affairs, Occasional Paper Series (#4), August 2006
  
• Financial Transactions in Islamic Jurisprudence (my translation of two volumes of Dr. Wahbah Al-Zuhayli’s Al-Fiqh Al-Islami wa Adillatuh, Dar Al-Fikr, Damascus, 2003. (Read tables of contents of volumes 1 and 2; order the book in U.S. from Dar Al-Kitab Al-Arabi, on in the U.K. from Kitaabun)

Selected papers on Islamic Law, Economics and Finance:

• Incoherence of Contract-Based Islamic Financial Jurisprudence in the Age of Financial Engineering

• A Simple Fiqh-and-Economics Rationale for Mutualization in Islamic Financial Intermediation

• Islamic Bank Corporate Governance and Regulation: A Call for Mutualization

• Mutuality as an Antidote to Rent-Seeking Shari`a-Arbitrage in Islamic Finance

• Limits and Dangers of Shari`a Arbitrage

• "Interest" and the Paradox of Contemporary Islamic Law and Finance.

• A Basic Guide to Contemporary Islamic Banking and Finance.

• An Economic Explication of the Prohibition of Riba in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence.

• An Economic Explication of the Prohibition of Gharar in Classical Islamic Jurisprudence.

• The Economics of Islamic Financial Jurisprudence.

Selected presentations on Islamic Economics and Finance:

• A Call for Mutuality in Islamic Finance: Corporate Form in Islamic Financial Intermediation (Harvard Islamic Finance Forum 2006)

• Hedge Funds: Regulatory (including Shari`a) issues (presented in Bahrain 2005)

• Macro vs. Micro Considerations in Islamic financial Ijtihad (presented in Istanbul 2004)

• Limits of Shari`a Arbitrage and Unrealized Potential of islamic Finance (presented at Harvard 2004)

• The recent Azhar fatwa and the potential for real Riba-free banks (presented in Dubai & CA 2003)

• Peddling Religion?: What is Islamic Finance, and should we support it? (presented in Detroit 2003)

• Islamic financial engineering vs. architecture (with app. to hedge funds) (presented in Dubai 2003)

• Stock screening rules and the Islamicity of REITs (presented in Geneva, 2002)

• Understanding Islamic Jurisprudence and Finance (presented in Geneva, 2002)

• Islamic Finance 101 (presented at U.S. Treasury Department, Washington D.C., 2002)

• Takaful as Mutual Insurance (presented in N.Y.C., 2000)

• Global Strategies for Islamic Finance (presented in Kuala Lumpur, 2001)

• Islamic financial Jurisprudence: Out of the Books and Out of the Box (presented in Dubai 2002)

• Regulatory Concerns regarding Islamic Banks (presented in Dubai, 2002)