At the foot of the master (Ibn Rushd - Averroes - of Cordoba)

• My blog: Islam and Economics



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



• Written testimony on Islamic finance before Senate Banking Committee, July 13, 2005.
• Hearing: "MONEY LAUNDERING AND TERROR FINANCING ISSUES IN THE MIDDLE EAST"



• 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)

Selected papers on Islamic Law, Economics and Finance:

• "The End of Petrodollar Recycling and the Future of Islamic Finance"
• "Al-Sanhuri on Riba''
  
• "Islamic Finance" After State-Spoonsored Capitalist Islamism
• Mutuality, Reciprocity, and Justice within the Context of A Unified Theory of Riba an Gharar
• Bank-Insured RoSCA for Microfinance: Experimental Evidence in Poor Egyptian Villages (with M. El-Komi, D. Karlan, and A. Osman, JEBO, 2014)
  
• 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:

• Mutuality Is No Panacea: The Mirage of "Islamic Finance" (Harvard Islamic Finance Forum 2014)
  
• Islamic Finance 101 (presented at U.S. Department of Treasury, Washington D.C., 2008)
• A Call for Mutuality in Islamic Finance: Corporate Form in Islamic Financial Intermediation (Harvard Islamic Finance Forum 2006)
• 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)
• 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)