Dr Valentino Cattelan

Lecturer in Law

School of Law

Email:: Valentino.Cattelan@bcu.ac.uk

Dr Valentino Cattelan is an experienced researcher in Islamic law, economics and finance. His expertise also comprises comparative law, EU law, contract law and interdisciplinary studies.

Dr Valentino Cattelan joined BCU School of Law as a Lecturer in October 2020. Prior to this, he was an Associate Researcher at SCIEF (IE Business School, Madrid). In the past, he held a number of academic positions at the University of Rome Tor Vergata; the Oxford Centre for Islamic Studies; the Institute of Ismaili Studies (London); the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology (Halle/Salle); the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Study ‘Law as Culture’ (Bonn); and other institutions.

In particular, at the University of Rome Tor Vergata he was the coordinator of the European module Integrating Islamic Finance in Europe, funded by the EU Commission under the Jean Monnet Programme (2010-2013).

Dr Cattelan has extensively published in the areas of Islamic contract law and Islamic finance. His comparative investigation deals both with the conceptual distance between Islamic economy and conventional capitalism, and with the variations that the Islamic normative discourse has experienced from classical times to the contemporary global market. On the subject, he has recently coined the notion of Typewritten Market to describe the peculiar connotations that the current law of Islamic finance holds (in the form of a process of Shariah-compliance) in comparison to the application of Islamic law in the practice of Muslim medieval trade (Arab Law Quarterly, 2021).

Areas of Expertise

Qualifications

Memberships

Teaching

Research

Postgraduate Supervision

Publications

Edited Volumes

Cattelan, V. (2019, ed.), Islamic Social Finance: Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and the Sharing Economy, Islamic Business and Finance Series, London and New York: Routledge - https://www.routledge.com/Islamic-Social-Finance-Entrepreneurship-Cooperation-and-the-Sharing-Economy/Cattelan/p/book/9780367588052
(2013, ed.), Islamic Finance in Europe: Towards a Plural Financial System, Studies in Islamic Finance, Accounting and Governance, Cheltenham, UK - Northampton, MA, USA: Edward Elgar Publishing - https://www.e-elgar.com/shop/gbp/islamic-finance-in-europe-9781781002506.html
(2012, ed.),Integration Through Legal Education. The Role of EU Legal Studies in Shaping the EU, SENT – Thematic Network on European Studies, Bologna: Il Mulino

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Cattelan, V. (2021), “The Typewritten Market: Shari‘ah-compliance and securitisation in the law of Islamic finance”, Arab Law Quarterly, 35 (1-2), Special Issue Islamic Finance and Contemporary Challenges, pp. 74-91 - https://brill.com/view/journals/alq/35/1-2/article-p74_4.xml
(2017), “Between theory(-ies) and practice(-s): legal devices (hiyal) in classical Islamic law”, Arab Law Quarterly, 31 (3), pp. 245-275 - https://brill.com/view/journals/alq/31/3/article-p245_245.xml
(2017), “L’economia islamica: alternativa apparente o reale?”, Oriente Moderno, 97 (2), pp. 270-290 - https://brill.com/view/journals/ormo/97/2/article-p270_270.xml
(2017), “Legal pluralism, property rights and the paradigm of Islamic economics”, JKAU: Islamic Economics, 30 (1), pp. 21-36
(2016), “Alice’s Adventures, abductive reasoning and the logic of Islamic law”, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, 29 (2) (Special Issue “Islamic law: its sources, interpretation, its economics, finance and the translation between it and laws written in English”), pp. 359-388
(2013), “Property (mal) and credit relations in Islamic law: an explanation of dayn and the function of legal personality (dhimma)”, Arab Law Quarterly, 27 (2), pp. 189-202 - https://brill.com/view/journals/alq/27/2/article-p189_5.xml
(2013), “Shari‘ah economics as autonomous paradigm: theoretical approach and operative outcomes”, Journal of Islamic Perspective on Science, Technology and Society, 1 (1), pp. 3-11
(2009), “From the concept of haqq to the prohibitions of riba, gharar and maysir in Islamic finance”, International Journal of Monetary Economics and Finance, 2(3/4), pp. 384-397

Commissioned Research Report

Cattelan, V. (2018), Theoretical Development and Shortages of Contemporary Islamic Economics Studies: Research Programmes and the Paradigm of Shared Prosperity, IKAM Report n. 6, Research Paper n. 1. Istanbul: IKAM, Research Center for Islamic Economics, pp. 1-28 - https://ikam.org.tr/publications/theoretical-development-and-shortages-of-contemporary-islamic-economics-studies

Chapters in Edited Books (selection)

Cattelan, V. (2020), “Sacred Euro: sovereign debt(s) and EU’s bare credit in the Corona crisis”, in Gephart, W. (ed.), In the Realm of Corona Normativities, Frankfurt: Klostermann, pp. 195-208
(2020), “Hamlet’s ghost, Orientalism and the tragedy of Islamic economics”, in Kızılkaya, N. (ed.), Methodology of Islamic Economics. Problems and Solutions. London: Routledge, pp. 315-330
(2019), “Contractual freedom, market and social justice. The invisible hand of God-man’s agency relationship (khilafah)”, in Azid, T., & Sunar, L. (eds.), Social Justice and Islamic Economics: Routledge, pp. 50-69
(2019), “Experiences in Translation: Islamic finance and the sharing economy”, in Cattelan, V. (ed.), Islamic Social Finance: Entrepreneurship, Cooperation and the Sharing Economy, London: Routledge, pp. 71-92
(2019) (with Piratti, M.), “Islamic green finance: a new path to environment protection and sustainable development”, in ibid., pp. 144-172
(2016), ““Equal for equal, hand to hand”: comparing Islamic and Western money”, in Gimigliano G. (ed.), Money, Payment Systems and the European Union: The Regulatory Challenges of Governance, Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 77-101
(2013), “Babel, Islamic finance and Europe: preliminary notes on property rights pluralism”, in Cattelan, V. (ed.), Islamic Finance in Europe: Towards a Plural Financial System. Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 1-12
(2013), “A glimpse through the veil of Maya: Islamic finance and its truths on property rights”, ibid., 32-51
(2011), “A new model for options in Islamic law”, in Hassan, K.M., & Mahlknecht, M. (eds.), Islamic Capital Markets: Products and Strategies, London: Wiley Int., pp. 201-217
(2010), “Islamic finance and ethical investments. Some points of reconsideration”, in Khan, M.F., & Porzio, M. (eds.), Islamic Banking and Finance in the European Union. A Challenge, Edward Elgar, pp. 76-87

Conference Proceedings and Working Papers

Cattelan, V. (2015), “Performing God’s Will in market economy: Islamic contract law, fiqh and the law of Islamic finance”, Proceedings of the SC-OCIS Roundtable 2014 on Harnessing Waqf into a Bankable Social Financing and Investment Asset Class, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 22-23 March 2014, pp. 90-100
(2014), “In the Name of God: managing risk in Islamic finance”, Eabh Working Papers Series, no. 14-07, pp. 1-14 - http://www.eabh.info/publications/eabh-papers
(2014), “Islamic economics: justice, identity and pluralism in market economy theory”, Proceedings of the Islamic Economics Workshop II Islamic Economy & Market, Istanbul, Turkey, 5-6 April 2014, pp. 48-59.
(2013), “Justice as Truth: from the dyad hukm/haqq to Islamic economics and finance”, Proceedings of the 9^th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance (ICIEF), Istanbul, Turkey, 9-11 September