There is a large and growing body of literature on Islamic banking (Maurer 2005) and
even accounting in Islamic banking and finance (Maurer 2002), but little on halal
production, trade and regulation. What is more, existing scholarship on the Islamization
Cont Islam
of knowledge (Iqbal 2012) and Islamic technoscience (Furlow 2009; Lotfalian 2004) does
not, in any systematic manner, explore halal production, trade and regulation. Some
studies explore debates at the religious, scientific, legal and political level sparked by
the introduction of new biomedical technologies (Atighetchi 2007) while others argue that
Islamic orthodoxy impedes scientific enquiry in the Muslim world (Hoodbhoy 1991).