Hasan Gürak is a Senior Researcher at the School of Economics and Management, University of Lund, Sweden.

Neelambar Hatti is Professor Emeritus in the Department of Economic History, School of Economics and Management, University of Lund, Sweden.

Introduction Part I: Theoretical Chapters on Riba, the 'Excess' 1. Why Does Islamic Finance Reject Interest? 2. The Prohibition of 'Riba' in Islam and Its Elimination through Islamic Financing 3. Is There a 'Divine' Definition of Riba and Its Scope in the Holy Quran? 4. Islamic 'Interest-Free' Bonds: How Islamic Are They? Part II: President Erdogan's patented 'NAS'-policy and its consequences 5. The NAS Is There! President Erdogan's Economic Instrument to Fight Inflation 6. The Effects of the New Economic Model on Banking Sector Profitability in Turkey 7. Empirical Evaluation of President Erdogan's Interest Rate Policy 8. An Analysis of the Relationship between Foreign Exchange Rate Protected Deposit Implementation and Exchange Rates 9. Women's Wage in the Turkish Labor Market