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Islamic Finance: Astonished at my own silence



I find that I have never yet discussed on this blog the issue of Islamic finance -- that is, the financial institutions and theories that have arisen out of the Koran's prohibition of riba (roughly: usury).

This comes as something of a surprise, because this blog has been around for almost a year now, I have opined and observed here on a wide range of subjects from the relationship between Murdoch and Ailes at News Corp. to the foundations of epistemology. yet during all this time Islamic finance has been a great curiosity of mine. I've never mentioned that here?  Really?

Even at the precursor to this blog, Pragmatism refreshed, which I kept for more than five years before starting this one, I don't seem to have written anything squarely on point. I came close, noting certain relevant statements I had encountered in a listserv for example, here.

And I have written of it more squarely elsewhere, for example in AOL's DAILY FINANCE. I wrote a piece on how "Dubai's revival raises questions about Islamic finance" in November 2010.  Also, I'll have a book review on the subject in The Federal Lawyer in the near future.

Still, I've been tracking the subject for years and am surprised that I've been almost totally silnet on it in my own blogs. Or at least in my two general-interest and personal-hobby blogs. For a time I ran a more specialized blog I called Proxy Partisans and the issue does appear in there:

Voila.

Anyway, I've spent too much time talking about my earlier silence to launch into the subject proper now. I will say something about it tomorrow, instead. treat this post as preface.
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