Interest in Islamic economics
Subtitle: understanding riba
By: edited by Abdulkader Thomas.
Contributors: Thomas, Abdulkader S.
Series: Routledge Islamic studies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Abingdon, Oxon; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Interest (Islamic law); Banking law (Islamic law); Interest -- Islamic countries.; Banks and banking -- Religious aspects -- Islam.
Notes: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada."

Includes bibliographical referencesd and index.
Table of contents: value: Riba in Lisan Al Arab / translators Abdulkader Thomas and Ruba Alfattouh; value: In the shadow of deuteronomy / Vincent Cornell; value: The juridical meaning of riba / Sh. Wahba Al Zuhaili ; translators, Iman Abdul Rahim and Abdulkader Thomas; value: An overview of the sharia? a prohibition of riba / Emad H. Khalil; value: The modern debate over riba in Egypt / Emad H. Khalil with Abdulkader Thomas; value: Why has Islam prohibited interest / M. Umer Chapra; value: An attempt to understand the economic wisdom (hikma) in the prohibition Of riba / Mahmoud A. El-Gamal; value: What is riba / Abdulkader Thomas.