Editorial

Abstract

For this issue, IAIS’s journal Islam and Civilisational Renewal (ICR) is honoured to have received submissions from several renowned scholars and economists, including Muhammad Umer Chapra, Abbas Mirakhor, Syed Othman Alhabshi and Shaikh Hamzah Shaikh Abdul Razak, Mohamed Aslam Haneef, Amer Al-Roubaie, and others. I am grateful to all of them for their valuable contributions. The volume at hand is a special issue on the current global financial crisis and the perspectives and challenges within this scenario for Islamic economics and finance.