Islamic finance in global markets: Materialism, ideas and the construction of financial knowledgeFootnote

1 I would like to thank three anonymous reviewers for their comments, Charles Jones, Duncan Bell and Jeong Cho for their inputs, and participants at the 2nd International Conference in Political Economy at the University of Istanbul (2011) and the 4th Oxbridge Taiwan Scientific Symposium at the University of Oxford (2011) for their discussions and comments.

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