Legal, Regulatory and Governance Issues in Islamic Finance

Professor Wilson was the founder of the Islamic finance programme at Durham University in the United Kingdom where he continues to be an Emeritus Professor. He was a Visiting Professor at the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies in from 2009 untill 2012 and since 2013 has been an Emeritus Professor at the International Centre of Education in Islamic Finance (INCEIF), Kuala Lumpur. Professor Wilson was awarded the IDB prize in Islamic banking in 2014 in recognition of his academic work on the subject.

• List of tables and figures; 1 Introduction; 2 Common law, civil law and Shari‘ah; 3 Terms and conditions governing Islamic bank deposits; 4 Contracts for Islamic financing; 5 Laws providing for comprehensive Islamic banking systems; 6 Laws providing for parallel Islamic banking systems; 7 Regulation of Islamic banks; 8 Laws and regulations for takaful operators and participants; 9 Sukuk structures and their contractual implications 10 Shari‘ah monitoring and regulatory supervision of Islamic funds; 11 Corporate governance in Islamic financial institutions; 12 Plurality, diversity and post-Arab Spring Islamic finance possibilities; Glossary; Index