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摘要

Islamic financing is growing rapidly and the West wants in. With a huge influx of oil dollars and expanding U.S. trade and budget deficits, are the dollar's days as the world's reserve currency numbered? Imagine living in a parallel financial world where bankbooks earn rents, leases procure homes and scholars vet stocks. A world where merchants divulge profit margins in advance to buyers and commodities stream as dividends from capital investments. A world whirling around an orbit of gold. You don't have to imagine — this is the world of Islamic finance.