Introduction; Munnawar Iqbal and Rodney Wilson; (Islamic Development Bank, Jeddah and University of Durham); Part 1: Whither Islamic banking?; 1. Islamic banking at the crossroads: theory versus practice; Zubair Hasan; (International Islamic University, Malaysia); 2. Islamic banking modes of finance: proposals for further evolution; Abdel-Rahman Yousri Ahmad; (University of Alexandria); Part 2: Islamic retail banking experiences; 3. Wealth mobilisation by Islamic banks: the Malaysian case; Sudin Haron and Badrul Hisham Kamaruddin; (Universiti Utara Malaysia); 4. Managing and measuring customer service quality in Islamic banks: a study of the Kuwait Finance House; Abdulqawi Radman Mohammed Othman and H. Lynn Owen; (Tadhamon Islamic Bank, Yemen and University of Wales, Lampeter); 5. The lending policies of Islamic banks in Iran; Nezamaddin Makiyan; (Yazd University, Iran); Part 3: Measuring Islamic banking efficiency; 6. Efficiency in Arab banking; Idries Al-Jarrah and Philip Molyneux; (University of Wales, Bangor); 7. Determinants of Islamic banking profitability; M. Kabir Hassan and Abdel-Hameed Bashir; (University of New Orleans and Gambling State University); 8. Allocative and technical efficiency in Sudanese Islamic banks: an empirical investigation; Abd Elrhman Elzahi Saaid; (International Islamic University, Malaysia); Part 4: Islamic Mortgages, Insurance and Risk Management; 9. Islamic mortgages in the United Kingdom; Humayon Dar; (University of Loughborough); 10. Wealth creation through takaful (Islamic insurance); Mervyn Lewis; (University of South Australia); 11. Towards an optimal risk management tool for profit sharing finance; Seif I. Tag El-Din; (Markfield Institute of Higher Education, Leicester); Part 5: Equity finance and venture capital; 12. Stock market operation and equity price determination in an economy with an interest free banking system: the case of Iran; Karim Eslamloueyan; (Shiraz University, Iran); 13. The demand for musharakah in urban Egypt by small business as a test of the pecking order hypothesis; Mohamed Nasr; (Advanced Management Institute, Cairo); 14. Islamic finance and venture capital: a practical approach; Saqib Rashid; (Cairo University Fulbright Scholar).