"if money is the root i want the whole damn tree"

For some reason I've been thinking about the issue of Islamic economics and happened to stumble across a couple of recent articles on some recent events in modern-day Islamic finance.

Black Electorate: Answering to a Higher Authority by Ahmed Namatalla is on the growth of the Islamic banking sector.

This article is about a recent gathering of the World Islamic Banking Conference in Bahrain with over 500 participants from 31 countries.

And finally, On The Prohibition of Riba (Interest) and its Implications for Optimum Economic Performance by A. S. Mika'ilu is a discussion of some of the theoretical economic principles behind an interest-free economy.