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ESSAYS, BOOKS, ARCHIVES

This website is published by Kreatoc Zest Ltd in London. It contains essays and other information on the economics and history of money by Tarek El Diwany. The site also contains an archive of the author’s previous essays and interviews on the topic originally published at www.islamic-finance.com. The fourth edition of the English language version of The Problem With Interest is due for publication by mid-2025 and will be available here for order shortly.

REVIEWS

FROM PREVIOUS EDITIONS

See reviews of previous editions of The Problem With Interest and links to foreign language editions in Arabic, Turkish, Urdu and Bahasa >>

SNIPPETS

Selections from the FOURTH Edition

Extracts from the fourth edition of The Problem With Interest critiquing secular theories of interest, discussing the history and politics of money creation, and proposing an alternative monetary system >>

“The study of money, above all other fields in economics, is the one in which complexity is used to disguise truth or to evade truth, not to reveal it”
Galbraith, J. K., Money Whence it Came Where it Went, Houghton Mifflin, 1975, p. 5.