Publications Received

The Islamic Business Enterprise, by Ahmed Abdel-Fattah El- Ashker. Published by Croom Helm, February 1987, 242 pp., £35.

The kernel of this book is a set of detailed field studies which compare the performance of three major Islamic banks in Egypt with the rest of the banking system. It also looks at six other commercial and industrial enterprises run on Islamic lines in Egypt, although in much less detail. In addition to the field study, the book incorporates...