This book provides new perspectives and innovative solutions to issues facing the Islamic microfinance industry. Bringing together comprehensive papers from leading authorities on microfinance, it includes chapters exploring case studies from a number of countries as well as more theoretical topics.

Introduction Part 1: Islamic Microfinance and Shari'a-Compatibility 1. Meeting the Demand for Sustainable, Shari'a-Compliant Microfinance 2. Organizational Models of Islamic Microfinance 3. Islamic Finance and Microfinance: An Insurmountable Gap? 4. Islamic Microfinance: Between Commercial Viability and the Higher Objectives of Shari'a Part 2: Developments in Islamic Microfinance 5. Making Development Assistance Sustainable Through Islamic Microfinance 6. Leveraging Philanthropy Monetary Waqf for Microfinance 7. Incentivizing Microfinance for Islamic Financial Institutions: Financially Mainstreaming the Microenterprise 8. Re-Thinking Leasing From an Interest-Free Perspective: Exploring the Prospects of Islamic Micro-Leasing for Poverty Alleviation Part 3: Islamic Microfinance Case Studies 9. Islamic Microfinance in Indonesia: The Challenge of Institutional Diversity, Regulation and Supervision 10. Islamic Microfinance in Crisis Countries: The Unofficial Developmental Discourse 11. Muslim Funds in India: Institutional Mobilizing of Micro Savings 12. Innovations in Islamic Microfinance: Lessons from Muslim Aid's Sri Lankan Experiment Part 4: Resources on Islamic Microfinance 13. Information Sources on Islamic Microfinance: A Critical Literature Review