1st Edition

Islamic Social Finance Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and the Sharing Economy

Edited By Valentino Cattelan Copyright 2019
238 Pages
by Routledge

238 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

238 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

The current dynamics of world economy show remarkable changes in the socio-economics of credit provision and entrepreneurship. If the emergence of the sharing economy is fostering innovative models of collaborative agency, networking and venture business, economic actors are also looking for a more sustainable development, able to foster profitability as well as community welfare. This book... Read more




1 Introduction. Islamic social finance and the importance of roots Part I – Islam, shared prosperity and the market as socio-economic community 2 From the ontology of tawhid to Islamic social finance: conceptualization and application 3 A critical appraisal of Islamic finance in the light of maqasid al-Shari‘ah 4 Collaborative governance, social capital and the Islamic economic organization 5 Experiences in Translation: Islamic finance and the sharing economy Part II – Social impact entrepreneurship: instruments and cases 6 A new form of global asset-backed debt market through sukuk 7 Islamic entrepreneurship and the fundraising challenge: unlocking capital via crowdfunding in the sharing economy 8 Islamic FinTech and the paradigm shift in the financial landscape 9 Islamic green finance: a new path to environment protection and sustainable development 10 Salam finance: securing the purpose of microfinancing 11 Waqf based takaful model: a challenge for entrepreneurship 12 Zakat: its micro-entrepreneurship model and socio-humanitarian impact

Biography

Valentino Cattelan specializes in Islamic law, economics and finance, and his research activity covers aspects of legal pluralism, property rights theory, history of capitalism, law of Islamic finance, comparative law and social finance.