Islamic Finance

The vision is for our Islamic Finance PhD programme at the University of Dundee to become the home for some of the best Islamic finance researchers in the world.

The  University of Dundee University of Dundee  aims to undertake world-class research in Islamic political and moral economy, finance and banking. All research projects will be inspired both theoretically and methodologically by humanities and social sciences subject areas, including political and moral economy, economics, development, philanthropy, and Islamic commercial law.

Areas of research

While research in Islamic Finance Islamic Finance has expanded quickly, general research in Islamic economics, which began in the 1970s and 1980s, has grown more slowly.

The areas of research that we focus on include all broad areas of Islamic economics and finance (for example, Islamic political/moral economy, Islamic banking and finance, Islamic insurance, Islamic capital markets, Islamic commercial law) by developing the theoretical, empirical and law-oriented studies in these areas.

Research areas include:

• Islamic economics
• formation of Islamic political economy
• formulating Islamic moral economy
• the theory of maqāsid al Shari’ahand its implications for Islamic economic theory
• the development of Shariah based products
• Islamic banking and finance and sustainable development
• Islamic moral economy and the performance of Islamic banking and finance
• Islamic capital markets (sukuk markets)