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Two Essays In Islamic Finance And Investment, Hesham J. Merdad
Two Essays In Islamic Finance And Investment, Hesham J. Merdad
University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations
The main purpose of this dissertation is to lessen the gap in the Islamic finance and investment literature by providing new answers to the most vital question raised in that literature: Is the adherence to the Shariah law associated with at any cost?
The first chapter provides a primer on Islamic finance. It discusses several restrictions and necessary adaptations that must be made to have a Shariah-compliant product. The takeaway is that Shariah law mandates is related to fundamentals and, thus has a direct effect on the risk-return profile of all sorts of different products. This is referred to as …