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Handbook of Islamic Banking
Hassan, M K and Lewis, M K, (editors)
Edward Elgar Publishing, UK
From its foundations 30 years ago, Islamic banking has grown
rapidly to become a distinctive and fast growing segment of the
international banking and capital markets. Despite this expansion,
Islamic banking still remains poorly understood in many parts of the
Muslim world and continues to be a mystery in much of the West. The
Handbook of Islamic Banking addresses this gap.
This comprehensive volume, published in April, contains 25 expressly commissioned studies by leading international experts on the topic. Islamic banking offers, as an alternative to conventional interest-based financing methods, a wide variety of religiously-acceptable financial instruments and investments based on profit-and-loss sharing arrangements.
These techniques are explored in detail, along with other subjects such as the system of religious governance, Islamic bonds (sukuks), Islamic project finance, economic development and globalisation.
Professor Mervyn Lewis is Professor of Banking and Finance in UniSA’s School of Commerce and the book’s co-editor.
For more information visit: Edward Elgar Publishing, UK
Russell S Ellis – Pioneer Modernist Architect
Bird, L
UniSA Architecture Museum Monograph Series, Adelaide
Louise Bird, the inaugural recipient of the SA Built Heritage
Research Fellowship at UniSA’s Architecture Museum, focused her
research on the domestic architecture of Adelaide-based architect
Russell Ellis (1912-1988).
This book draws from the three-volume report on her investigations. The publication is an addition to the literature on modernism in South Australia and profiles Ellis’ distinctive contribution to the introduction and promotion of the modernist idiom in this State.
Russell S Ellis - Pioneer Modernist Architect is the first in the Architecture Museum Monograph Series, which will include publications derived from the Department for Environment and Heritage’s SA Built Heritage Research Fellowship program.
Copies of the publication are available from the Architecture Museum (open Mondays and Tuesdays, 9am to 5pm), or via the order form available on the museum’s website.
For more information visit: UniSA's Architecture Museum