Simon Archer & Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim 
Takaful Islamic Insurance 
Concepts and Regulatory Issues

Authors Rifaat, Archer and Volker bring an international perspective to the growing Islamic Insurance industry. Drawing on contributions from leading experts around the world, they present a comprehensive view of the very issues governing the industry and its future direction. As top financial institutes around the world seem to enter the lucrative Takaful markets, this timely book offers crucial background information and advice, invaluable for any serious player in the market.

Über den Autor

Professor Simon Archer is Visiting Professor at the ICMA
Centre, Henley Business School, University of Reading (U.K.), where
he teaches on an MSc program, Investment Banking and Islamic
Finance. Previously, he was Professor of Financial Management
at the University of Surrey (U.K.) having been Midland Bank
Professor of Financial Sector Accounting at the University of
Wales, Bangor. After studies in Philosophy, Politics, and Economics
at Oxford University, he qualified as a Chartered Accountant with
Arthur Andersen in London and then moved to Price Waterhouse in
Paris, where he became a Partner in Management Consultancy
Services. In addition to being co-editor of, and chapter
contributor to, Islamic Finance: Innovation and Growth, and
Islamic Finance: The Regulatory Challenge (published by John
Wiley), Professor Archer is co-author of the CCH International
Accounting/Financial Reporting Standards Guide and the author
of a considerable number of academic papers on international
accounting and on accounting, finance, and related issues in
Islamic financial institutions. He also supervises research
students in these areas. He has carried out a number of consultancy
assignments for the Accounting and Auditing Organization for
Islamic Financial Institutions, the Islamic Financial Services
Board, and the World Bank on issues connected with Islamic finance.

Professor Rifaat Ahmed Abdel Karim has been the
Secretary-General of the Islamic Financial Services Board since
2002. Prior to his current position, Professor Rifaat was the
Secretary-General of the Accounting and Auditing Organization for
Islamic Financial Institutions, a post he held for more than eight
years. He was a member of the Standards Advisory Council of the
International Accounting Standards Board for two terms, and is
currently a member of the Consultative Advisory Group of the
International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board. Professor
Rifaat was a Visiting Professor at Surrey University (U.K.) and
Honorary Professor at Monash University (Australia). He is
currently a Visiting Professor at Reading University (U.K.).
Professor Rifaat is the co-author of Business and Accounting
Ethics in Islam, the Euromoney bestseller book
Islamic Finance: Innovation and Growth, and Islamic
Finance: The Regulatory Challenge recently published by John
Wiley. He is also the author of many academic and professional
papers on accounting, governance, and finance issues in Islamic
banking and finance.

Dr. Volker Nienhaus was Professor of Economics at the
German universities of Trier (1989-90) and Bochum
(1990-2004) before he became President of the University of
Marburg (election period 2004-10). He has published numerous
books and articles on Islamic economics and Islamic banking and
finance since the 1980s. He was a member of several academic
advisory boards of public and private institutions in Germany,
including the German Orient-Foundation (1993-2006) and the
Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development
(1998-2008). In 2006, he was appointed a member of the
Governing Council of the International Centre for Education in
Islamic Finance (INCEIF) in Kuala Lumpur. He is also consultant to
the Islamic Financial Services Board on governance issues of
takaful operations.