Contemporary Discourse of Halal and Islamic Entrepreneurship - Trends and Future Opportunities

This book serves as a valuable resource for Islamic entrepreneurship researchers, Halal scholars, Islamic finance professionals, Halal advocates, and Halal business model consultants in the fast-changing global economy. The thematic focus is not only on Islamic and halal entrepreneurship but also on halal production and consumption, ethics and impact investing in Islamic entrepreneurship, Shariah principles guiding business model innovation and utilisation of disruptive technologies (such as crowdfunding for startups, bitcoin, digital ventures, cryptocurrency, blockchain, among others), Islamic entrepreneurship and SDGs, halalisation and sustainability issues, and emergence of Islamic-Fintech in Muslim majority nations and nations with plural economic systems, including the interface of Islamic and halal entrepreneurship with science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). 
At the moment, the working knowledge about Islamic and halal entrepreneurship is at its infancy among Islamic finance professionals, halal consultants, academic researchers, and students nursing the ambition of going into these two fields. Universities, Islamic training academies, and centres are also ill equipped to enrich Islamic and halal curricula with principles and conventional models. One of the proactive ways of breaking financial exclusion, social inequality, and social exclusion caused by apathy and avoidance of Riba, Maysir, and Gharar is by recognising, embracing, and promoting Islamic and halal entrepreneurship among the excluded Muslims and lovers of ethical business models. Overall, this book aims to promote better understanding of Islamic and Halal entrepreneurship in order to assist academics, researchers, practitioners, consultants, and policymakers to improve the growth of Islamic startups and small and medium enterprises (SMEs) by improving social inclusion and financial inclusion and accelerating the attainment of SDG 8 and SDG12.




Lukman Raimi is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the School of Business and Economics (SBE), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). Prior to joining the UBD, he was Assistant Professor and Chair of Entrepreneurship at the American University of Nigeria (AUN). Additionally, he was formerly Coordinator of the Graduate Program at the School of Business & Entrepreneurship and the Director Centre for Entrepreneurship at AUN. 
Salisu Monsuru Adekunle is a Senior Lecturer at the Faculty of Technical and Vocational Education, Sultan Idris Education University, Malaysia. He is a Senior Fellow of the Halal Professional and Executive Consultant of Halal Compliance and Food Safety (HaCFoS). His research interests include soil fertility, plant nutrient management, Halal Industrial Management, Food Safety and Sustainability. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Sustainable Agriculture Food & Environment-SAFE, Member, Editorial Board, AgroTech-Food Science, Technology and Environment, Malaysia and Member, Editorial Board, Journal of Underutilized Legume (JUL), Nigeria, and a reviewer for several journals indexed in Scopus and Web of Science (WoS). He has developed Halal training modules and he has served as a facilitator for several Halal training and workshops, including Halal Product Recall and Halal Assurance System (HAS). His publications are indexed in Scopus, WoS, and Google Scholar.

Muhammad Salman Shabbir (Fellow of Higher Education Academy UK & Certified Management and Business Educator, CABS) is Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship at the UBD School of Business and Economics (UBDSBE), Universiti Brunei Darussalam (UBD). His primary research interests include entrepreneurship, entrepreneur as an individual, sustainable business models, a clean and sustainable environment, entrepreneurial leadership, entrepreneurial skills, and green practices, among others. He has published more than 70 journal articles and conference proceedings in Web of Science (SSCI and SCIE), ABS, ABDC, and Scopus indexed journals of international repute.