1 27 Jul 1994. Back to main text
2 Letter, 3 February 1994. Back to main text
3 'Pandora's Marketplace', 13 February 1993. Back to main text
4 A. Culloty, Nora Herlihy: Irish Credit Union Pioneer (Irish League of Credit Unions: Dublin 1990), p. 77 Back to main text
5 Quoted in the Guardian, 26 June 1993. Back to main text
6 Telephone conversation. Back to main text
7 Included in Islam and Ecology, Fazlun Khalid and Joanne O'Brien (eds) (Cassell: London 1992). Back to main text
8 Published in 1985 by the Islamic Foundation, 223 London Road, Leicester. Back to main text
9 In a supplement 'Islam and the West', 6 August 1994. The Economist also published a long essay on usury in its Christmas issue in December 1993. Back to main text
10 International Islamic Publishers, K-20 D, Saket, New Delhi 17. Back to main text
11 Vadillo can be contacted at the headquarters of the Murabitun movement in Scotland: Achnagairn House, Inverness IV5 7PD; tel +44 1463 831523. Back to main text
12 Jesús Larranaga (one of his students), quoted by David Morris, The Mondragon System: Co-operation at Work (Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Washington 1992), p.11 Back to main text
13 Morris, The Mondragon System. Material on Mondragon has also been taken from Morris's The Mondragon Co-operative Corporation (Institute for Local Self-Reliance: Washington 1992) and We build the Road as we Travel by Roy Morrison (New Society Publishers: Philadelphia 1991). Back to main text
14 This is almost exactly the interest-free method of borrowing proposed by Shaikh Mahmud Ahmad in Towards interest-Free Banking. His suggestion is that if someone wishes to borrow, say, £10,000 for a year, they would commit themselves to lending £1000 to the bank for ten years. Back to main text
15 See Martin Boddy, The Building Societies (Macmillan: London 1986). Other historical material is taken from Donald McKillop and Charles Ferguson, Building Societies: Structure, Performance and Change (Graham & Trotman: London 1993). Back to main text
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