Case Studies in Islamic Banking and Finance (eBook)

Brian Kettell has a wealth of practical experience in the area of Islamic banking and finance. He worked for several years as an Advisor for the Central Bank of Bahrain where he had numerous Islamic banking responsibilities. Subsequently, Brian taught courses on Islamic banking and finance at a range of financial institutions including the World Bank, National Commercial Bank (Saudi Arabia), Global Investment House (Kuwait), Noor Islamic Bank (UAE), the UK Treasury, the Central Bank of Iran, the Central Bank of Syria, the Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment, the Institute for Financial Services and Scotland Yard. Brian's vast academic expertise in Islamic finance is highlighted by his role as former Joint Editor of the Islamic Finance Qualification Handbook and his past teaching work at a number of top universities worldwide including the London School of Economics, the City University of Hong Kong, the American University of the Middle East in Kuwait and London Metropolitan University Business School. Brian's impressive list of publications include over 100 articles in journals, business magazines and the financial press including Islamic Business and Finance, Islamic Banking and Finance, the Central Banking Journal, Euromoney, the Securities Journal and the International Currency Review. He has also published 6 books on Islamic banking and financial markets.

What are the principles of Islamic banking and finance?

Case Study 1.The Ijara Contract as a mode of Islamic
Finance.

Case Study 2. The Musharaka Contract as a mode of Islamic
Finance.

Case Study 3. The Diminishing Musharaka Contract as a mode of
Islamic Finance.

Case Study 4.1.The Mudaraba Contract as a mode of Islamic
Finance.

Case Study 4.2.The Mudaraba contracts with multiple financing
options.

Case Study 5. Murabaha, Musharaka, Ijara and Ijara
Wa-Iktina.

Case Study 6. Islamic Mortgages for Home Finance.

Case Study 7. Sources of Finance for Islamic Banks: An
Application of Profit and Loss Sharing.

Case Study 8. Financial Statement Analysis for Islamic
Banks.

Case Study 9. Islamic Investment Prohibitions.

Case Study 10. Issues involved in creating an Islamic bank
within a western regulatory framework : the case of the Islamic
Bank of Britain.

Case Study 11. Leverage and Islamic Banking.

Case Study 12. Impact of Loan Defaults on Islamic and
Conventional Banks.

A glossary of Islamic banking and finance terms.

Case Answers.