Since interest is forbidden under Sharia law, companies enter sale-and-leaseback arrangements with trusts that issue certificates called sukuks.

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It just happens that in well-structured sukuks his claim on the asset is senior to that of the issuer.

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These sukuks have proved enormously popular among large banks for obvious reasons--they are bonds in all but name, and therefore familiar and acceptable.

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