Islamic Studies and Arabic Language

Donor award: Islamic Development Bank (Jiddah, Saudi Arabia)
Source : Annual Report. Vol. 40 (Mar. 2015), pp.1-95, 95 p.

Subjects: Auditing; Cash flow; Jiddah; Right to property

By: Ali, Ahmad Jundi; Abidali, Nayif Ali. Journal of Human Sciences. Vol. 22, no. 1 (Mar. 2015), 12 p.

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Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Labour

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Subjects: al-Halal and al-Haram

Question: The following query has been raised in order to get Shariah guidance.An Islamic bank’s management has approved a financing facility to its customer (a trading company) subject to the company providing acceptable security. The purpose of the facility is to ....

Source: Annual report and financial statements for the year ended 31 December 2014.

Subjects: Accounting; Auditing; Financial statements; Islamic jurisprudence; Social responsibility

Auditors Inc: KPMG (Petaling Jaya, Malaysia)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Accounting; Financial statements; Islam; Profits; Right to property

Auditors Inc: Acnabin (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Commercial law; Islamic jurisprudence; Management; Profits; Right to property

Auditors Inc: Aziz Halim Khair Choudhury (Dhaka, Bangladesh); UHY Syful Shamsul Alam and Co. (Dhaka, Bangladesh); Howladar Yunus and Co. (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Accounting; Islamic jurisprudence; Management; Profits; Right to property

Auditors Inc: Ernst and Young (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Source: Financial statements for the financial Year ended 31 December 2014.

Subjects: Auditors' reports; Financial statements; Islamic Banks; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: The following query has been raised in order to get shariah guidance.Can an Islamic bank obtain cash deposit as security for a customer’s financial obligation towards the bank under various financing facilities extended by the bank to the customer ?.

Question: A landlord, are currently renting out a property which is currently on an unlawful mortgage-is the income / profit made from this property therefore unlawful too ?.

Subjects: Profits; Real property; ٌLeasing

Auditors Inc: Hoda Vasi Chowdhury and Co. (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Accounting; Auditing; Financial statements; Stockholders

Question: An Islamic bank has launched a product based on Salam in order to provide cash finance for its retail and corporate customers.As per the product structure, the customer will sell to the Islamic bank a certain quantity of a described ....

Auditors Inc: A. F. Ferguson and company (Karachi, Pakistan)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Accounting; Financial statements; Investments; Islamic jurisprudence; Profits

Auditors Inc: PricewaterhouseCoopers (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Accountants; Auditing; Financial statements; Islamic jurisprudence; Right to property

Question: An Islamic bank has launched a product based on Salam in order to provide cash finance for its retail and corporate customers.As per the product structure, the customer will sell to the Islamic bank a certain quantity of a described ....

Auditors Inc: Ernst and Young Ford Rhodes Sidat Hyder (Karachi, Pakistan)
Source: Annual report and Statement of financial position as at 31 December 2014.

Subjects: Capital; Financial statements; Investments; Islamic jurisprudence; Profits

By: Okhravi, Tooba; Islami, Saidah Tarvij; Ahmadi, Ali Hushyar…[et al.]. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal. Vol. 17, no. 2 (Feb. 2015), pp.1-7, 7 p.

Subjects: Iran; Diseases

By: Husayn, Nur Najihah; Kasri, Nur Suhaydah. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 33 (Feb. 2015), pp.64-66, 3 p.

Subjects: Malaysia; Banks; Credit cards; Islam; Marketing

By: al-Qudah, Man Khalid. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 33 (Feb. 2015), pp.41-45, 5 p.

Subjects: Insurance; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; Mortgages; Refinancing

By: Hassun, Nadiyah Hamid. Journal of College of Basic Education for Education and Human Sciences. Vol. 1, no. 19 (Feb. 2015), pp.289-297, 9 p.

Subjects: Semantics; Discourse analysis

By: Khalid, Basmah. Journal of College of Basic Education for Education and Human Sciences. Vol. 1, no. 19 (Feb. 2015), pp.46-56, 11 p.

Subjects: Arabic language; English language; Grammar

Donor award: Takaful International Company (Manama, Bahrain)
Source : Annual Report. Vol. (Feb. 2015), pp.1-69, 69 p.

Subjects: Manama

Auditors Inc: Ernst and Young (Istanbul, Turkey)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Accounting; Auditing; Financial statements; Islamic jurisprudence; Social responsibility

Auditors Inc: Ernst and Young (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Source: Annual Report 2014.

Subjects: Accountants; Accounting; Auditing; Financial statements; Islamic jurisprudence

Auditors Inc: KPMG Taseer Hadi and company (Karachi, Pakistan)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Financial statements; Financial transactions; Investments; Islamic jurisprudence; Profits

Question: Islamic bank a and Islamic bank b had extended a club financing facility to an airline (the customer). The financing was under the Murabahah structure, as the banks had purchased an aircraft from the manufacturer company and sold it to ....

Question: My husband’s family live abroad, they are not well off at all and his mother needs cancer medicine. I think his father would have savings above the Nisab (and not be eligible for Zakat) but his mother on her own ....

Subjects: Alms tax; Alms tax bestowments; Islamic jurisprudence

Auditors Inc: Ernst and Young (Manama, Bahrain)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Annual reports; Bahrain; Commercial law; Financial statements; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: http://alqalam.org.uk/fatawa/is-it-permissible-to-take-out-a-service-contract-for-the-home-boiler/It states warranties are not permissible. What if the warranty is purchased at point of purchase eg laptop £ 300 + £ 50 warrantly (parts and labour). Or Gas boiler £ 1000 +£ 100 7yr warranty parts n labour. ....

Subjects: Contracts; Hedge (Finance); Islamic jurisprudence; Purchasing

Auditors Inc: A. F. Ferguson and company (Karachi, Pakistan)
Source: Annual report :

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Banks; Financial transactions; Management; Social responsibility

Question: A customer of an Islamic bank is a main contractor of a big development project. It has decided to hire a subcontractor for land leveling and grading.Since the payments under the agreement with the subcontractor were proposed to be made ....

Question: I have received an offer for a paid internship at Barclays, in the compliance department. I will have a graduate level role, making sure that the bank stays within financial regulation set by the UK’s financial regulators. This will include ....

Subjects: Banks; Islamic jurisprudence

Auditors Inc: Deloitte and Touche Bakr Abulkhair and Partners (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia); PricewaterhouseCoopers (Riyadh, Saudi Arabia)
Source: Consolidated financial statements for the year ended December 31, 2014 together with auditors’ report.

Subjects: Auditors' reports; Consolidated financial statements; Islamic Banks; Islamic jurisprudence

By: Ziaaddini, Hasan; Ziaaddini, Ahmad; Asghari, Nada…[et al.]. Iranian Red Crescent Medical Journal. Vol. 17, no. 1 (2015), pp.1-5, 5 p.

By: Azraq, Tawfiq; Isaacs, Zayyat. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 32 (Jan. 2015), pp.60-61, 2 p.

Subjects: Financial engineering; Financing; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence

By: Mahidah, Hanani; Muhammad, Mehor Hadj. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 32 (Jan. 2015), pp.33-38, 6 p.

Subjects: Algeria; Projects; Small enterprises; Small projects

By: Ayt Abd Allah, Kawthar; Boulahrir, Lutfi. Critique Économique. No. 33 (Jul. / Jan. 2015), pp.89-102, 14 p.

Subjects: Banks; Data envelopment analysis; Islamic Banks; Middle East; Operational efficiency

By: Suwaysa, Yusra. al-Manara Pour les Études Juridiques et Administratives. No. (3) (2015), pp.4-26, 23 p.

Subjects: Banks; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; Management; Markets

Donor award: Maybank (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Subjects: Auditing; Debts; Islamic jurisprudence; Management; Stockholders

Question: A customer has approached an Islamic bank for financing of renovation of its chain of outlets. The scope of work includes renovation of interiors, fit out, furniture and lighting, etc.Shariah guidance has been sought in order to find a suitable Shariah compliant structure to finance the renovation..

Auditors Inc: Deloitte and Touche al-Fahad al-Wazzan and company (Kuwait); Ernst and Young al-Aiban, al-Osaimi and Partners (Kuwait)
Source: Annual report 2014.

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Auditing; Professional ethics; Right to property; Stockholders

Question: In order to finance purchase of goods under letters of credit (LC), an Islamic bank adopts a Murabahah structure with the following modus operandi :The customer submits the LC request along with a promise to purchase from the bank through ....

Question: The following query has been raised in relation to the Murabahah financing of usance letters of credit (usance LCs).It is easier to conclude the Murabahah contract if the currency of the lc and Murabahah are the same, such as usance ....

Question: How do I pay it on wealth past gone ; which I don’t know how much the total I accumulated was and how long I had it for. I always spent the money as soon as I got it, it ....

Subjects: Alms tax; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: I want to give my Zakat to relatives back in Somalia. They are calling and asking for help, telling us how hard pressed they are. I have asked my immediate family if they know whether these relatives qualify to receive ....

Subjects: Alms tax; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: I have about £ 1000 worth of shares in a bank. I now understand its impermissible to hold such shares, so I was going to sell them and give the money to charity with no expectation of reward. However I’ve ....

Subjects: Donations; Islamic jurisprudence; Tax exemptions

Question: Is earning any money from the London stock exchange Halal i.e. they are not a bank where majority of the income is from Riba but an exchange and make most of their money on fixed commissions on trades and other ....

Subjects: Financial markets; Islamic jurisprudence; London Stock Exchange

Donor award: Bank of London and the Middle East (London, United Kingdom)

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Auditing; Career development; Executive Management; Management