Critical Issues and Challenges in Islamic Economics and Finance Development

Velid Efendic is a professor in the faculty of economics at the School of Business and Economics at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. His research interests include banking, bank management, Islamic banking and finance and investment and portfolio management. Professor Efendic is the founder of the European Association of Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Fikret Hadzic is a professor in the faculty of economics at the University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was previously the Vice-Director of The Bank of Reconstruction and Development, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. Professor Hadzic also serves on the Supervisory Board of the Development Bank of the Federation of BH, Sarajevo, by appointment of the Federal Government of Bosnia Herzegovina. Hylmun Izhar is an economist at the Islamic Research and Training Institute at the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. His current research interests include the theoretical and empirical analysis of income ratio and risk-sharing structures, the development of global Islamic financial services and stress-testing within Islamic financial institutions.

Chapter 1) How Does Sovereign Sukuk Impact on the Economic Development of Developing Countries?: An Analysis of the Infrastructure Sector; Ahlidin Malikov.- Chapter 2) No Way Out for Sukuk Illiquidity?: Proposing Primary Dealer System for Sukuk Market; Ilham Reza Ferdian and Miranti Kartika Dewi.- Chapter 3) Possibility of Early Warning Signs (EWS) Application into the Quality management System of Credit Portfolio of Islamic Banks; Fikret Hadzic and Amir Softic.- Chapter 4) A look to the Cash Waqfs as Islamic Financial Institutions and Instruments;  Mehmet Bulut and Cem Korkut.- Chapter 5)The Implementation of Islamic Financial Services in Afghanistan - A Case; Natalie Schoon.- Chapter 6) All Weather Financial Portfolio Optimization With Islamic Constraints And Risk Minimization; Migdat I. Hodzic, Zlatko Dz. Sijercic and Tarek Names.- Chapter 7) The Usefulness of Financial Ratios in Discriminating Between Healthy and Distressed Companies: a Case of anIslamic Bank; Nerma Saracevic and Natasa Sarlija.- Chapter 8) Empowerment of Women in Islamic Economies - the Bosnia and Herzegovina Experience with a Focus on Business Problems in a Women's Small Entrepreneurship; Munira Sestic and Sabina Ibrahimagic.- Chapter 9) Business Model and Operational Efficiency of Microfinance in Bosnia and Herzegovina - Lessons for Islamic Microfinance; Velid Efendic and Fikret Hadzic.- Chapter 10) A Brief Analysis of the Expected and Non-Expected Outcomes from the Application of Rome I Regulation in the European Zone in Light of Islamic Cross Border Transactions; Sultan Abdulsalam.