The Gold Dinar: The Next Component in Islamic Economics, Banking and Finance* by Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera** & Moussa Larbani Department of Business Administration Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences International Islamic University Malaysia Jalan Gombak 53100 KUALA LUMPUR Selangor, Malaysia akameel@iiu.edu.my moussa@iiu.edu.my *An initial draft of this paper was presented at the International Conference on Banking, organized by the Monash University, 9 th and 10 th September 2003, Prato, Italy. **Corresponding author.