TY - BOOK AU - VENARDOS Angelo M TI - Islamic banking and finance in Southeast Asia: its development and future SN - 9789812568885 (pbk) : PY - 2007/// CY - Singapore PB - World Scientific Publishing KW - SOUTHEAST ASIA KW - ISLAMIC BANKING KW - ISLAMIC FINANCE N2 - The first half of the book provides a history of the development of Shari'ah Law, its application in banking, and a discussion of the difficulties that need to be resolved for Islamic banking to take its place in the global economy. The second part of the book describes the position in Southeast Asia and gives a country by country analysis of Islamic banking in Malaysia, Labuan, Indonesia, and Brunei, and general banking in Singapore. The final chapter looks at some of the problems that are particular to Islamic banking ER -