Islamic Finance For Dummies

I cannot agree with many 5-star-reviewers. In my opinion, the book only touches the surface and does not explain the economic body and background of Islamic Finance. It just throws in some Islamic principles that you can google anyway. But it does not explain how banks would deal with a currency, with endogenous money, etc. I was pretty disappointed.

this is a great book for someone who has very little knowledge from Islamic banking. It provides an insight from a western approach, thus making it easier to understand and slowly it guides us to understand the practices and rational of Islamic banking. A great and easy book to read!

If you are interested to learn more about Islamic Finance (professionally or personally), I highly recommend that you get this book. It is a book that was thoughtfully written with the audience in mind - some history, industry insights are explored as well which gives the reader a better frame of reference. I read this book alongside an online course in Islamic Finance - the online course provides solid technical knowledge of Islamic Finance (all the how-tos) and this book provides real-life applications, how Muslim countries developed and practiced Islamic Finance which helped me appreciate and cross-check everything that I had learn in the online course. There were many moments where I had said, "Wow!" because I was so impressed by Islamic Finance - thank you to the author for bringing them to light in the most engaging way, that it made me feel proud for being Muslim, and hope to contribute to Islam through Islamic Finance, in sha Allah.

A useful book for beginners. I think it will help to dispel the negativity surrounding the word 'sharia' . The non-Muslim reader will finally understand the moral and ethical implications of a value-based financial system. I enjoyed reading this book.

I just recently completed my Post Graduate Diploma in Islamic Finance Banking and I did in fact purchase many books on it. Brian Kettell's books are a waste of time. This book was not only informative it answered MANY of the questions I had to answer on my exams. While there are many books on the minutiae of Islamic Finance and Sharia Law concerning Islamic Finance this book covers it all. For all practical purposes if you cannot afford an MBA or Post Graduate Certificate in Islamic Finance just simply by this book and SAVE thousands of Dollars. Enough said.