Islamic Finance and the Shari'ah: The Dow Jones Fatwa and Permissible Variance as Studies in Letheanism and Legal Change

This book is about how Islamic finance is conducted in contemporary times. It is also about change and how change occurs in two areas. The first area is change in a body of law, both generally and specifically with respect to Islamic Sharìah in the areas of commerce and finance. The second area is Islamic finance. Change in the Sharìah and in Islamic finance are intimately and inextricably related: the Sharìah defines and constrains change in Islamic finance. Legal change necessarily involv...