How Usury Came to Rule the World: The Ascendancy of Usury over Judaeo-Christian and Muslim Commerce - Hardcoverby Ammar Abdulhamid Fairdous (Author), Uthman Ibrahim Morrison (Editor) This thoroughly annotated, well evidenced and orderly book began life as a PhD thesis. Highly readable, it comes as a welcome resource in response to the rapidly expanded appetite for understanding, since the international banking meltdown of 2008, amongst lay readers and specialists alike, regarding all matters relating to the historical roots of modern financial techniques and