e-Marefa DataBank for Islamic Economics and Finance

Donor award: Bank Nizwa (Muscat, Oman)
Source : Annual Report. Vol. (2015), 24 p.

Donor award: Bank Nizwa (Muscat, Oman)
Source : Annual Report. Vol. (2015), 26 p.

Donor award: First Security Islamic Bank Limited (Dhaka, Bangladesh)
Source : Annual Report. Vol. (2015), pp.1-194, 194 p.

Question: Would it be allowed to recover my initial investment made into CFDs or do I call it ‘quits’ ?.

Subjects: Contracts; Investments; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: 1. Before the start of Ramadhan, we agreed on the purchase of a house from Al-Rayan bank. The property price has already been agreed and the solicitors are already involved with paperwork Insha’Allah to go through soon. I have money ....

Subjects: Alms tax; Islamic jurisprudence; Financial transactions; Subprime mortgage

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Subjects: Business; Financing; Products; Resale on profit

By: Maghribi, Nabil; Mirakhur, Abbas. Islamic Economic Studies. Vol. 23, no. 2 (Nov. 2015), pp.85-115, 31 p.

Subjects: Economic recovery; Financial crises; Islamic economics; Management; Ruling in Islam

By: Shaukat, Mughis; al-Habashi, Datuk Uthman. Islamic Economic Studies. Vol. 23, no. 2 (Nov. 2015), pp.29-84, 56 p.

Subjects: Islam; Banks; Financial crises; Globalization; International economics

By: Islahi, Abd al-Azim. Islamic Economic Studies. Vol. 23, no. 2 (Nov. 2015), pp.1-28, 28 p.

Subjects: Evaluation; History; Islamic economics; Scientists

Question: I need your guidance in regards to a job offer that I have received. I have been offered a job at the VP (the central securities depository in Denmark) as a relationship manager. My main responsibility would be :•Ensuring ....

Subjects: Clearing (Finance); Financial transactions; Islamic jurisprudence; Usury

Question: l had a question regarding silver bullion we buy and sell and wanted to know how do we determine how much to charge to sell these silver bars, what is a acceptable profit margin as my friends says there is ....

Subjects: Business; Islamic jurisprudence; Profits

By: Mahbub, Muhammad Nafil Muhammad. Bait al-Mashura Journal. Vol. 2, no. 3 (Oct. 2015), pp.120-145, 26 p.

Subjects: Contracts; Financial transactions; Gambling; Islamic economics; Price policy

By: Yusufi, Karimah. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 41 (Oct. 2015), pp.61-65, 5 p.

Subjects: Intellectual capital

By: Goud, Blake. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 41 (Oct. 2015), pp.28-29, 2 p.

Subjects: Hotels; Islam; Islamic economics; Tourism; Turkey

Donor award: Islamic Financial Services Board (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)

Subjects: Islamic Financial Services Board; Malaysia

Question: I was planning to apply for the government economic service’s graduate scheme. Is it Halal to work in such a profession in which I may be required to analyses, say, the impact of changes in the interest rates ? The ....

Subjects: Financial statements; Interest rates; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: I have a huge amount of debts and I am considering taking out an IVA plan even though I can make the payments to the companies, Is it permissible for me to take an IVA which means I will ....

Subjects: Debt repayment; Islamic jurisprudence; Payments

Question: I am still working and not in receipt of any of the pension but continue to contribute towards the scheme on a monthly basis. Are you able to advise me whether Zakat is payable on the NHS pension scheme in specific ?.

Subjects: Alms tax; Islamic jurisprudence; Pensions

By: Zuki, Mazrul Shahir Md. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 40 (Sep. 2015), pp.104-107, 4 p.

Subjects: United Kingdom; Investments; Waqf

By: Lone, Naveed Ahmad. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 40 (Sep. 2015), pp.100-103, 4 p.

Subjects: Contracts; Financing; Islamic Banks; Islamic jurisprudence

By: Goud, Blake. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 40 (Sep. 2015), pp.21-22, 2 p.

Subjects: Islamic economics

By: al-Attar, Abd al-Ilah; Atmani, Muhammad Amini. Dossiers de Recherches en Economie et Gestion. No. 4 (Sep. 2015), pp.9-37, 29 p.

Subjects: Debts; Financing; Investments; Products; ٌLeasing

Question: I recently accepted a job offer. With the contract papers, there was a form advising that the company could opt me in to private healthcare insurance. It would be free to opt in and benefit from it as it would ....

Subjects: Employers; Health insurance

Auditors Inc: PricewaterhouseCoopers (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
Source: Annual report 2015.

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

Question: Is it permissible for a woman, who is pregnant, to take out travel insurance, as (some say, I am not certain if it is true), they say that some airlines do not let them travel without it..

Subjects: Insurance; Islamic jurisprudence; Pregnant woman; Travel

Donor award: Mashreq al-Islami (Dubai, United Arab Emirates). Sharia'h Supervisory Board

Subjects: Credit cards; Islamic jurisprudence; Resale on profit

Donor award: Syria International Islamic Bank (Damascus, Syria)

Subjects: Bribery; Financing; Legal systems; Taboos; Terrorism

By: Ibn Badri, Muhammad Bahr al-Din. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 39 (Aug. 2015), pp.102-105, 4 p.

Subjects: Financial institutions; Islam; Investments; Waqf

By: Goud, Blake. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 39 (Aug. 2015), pp.13-15, 3 p.

Subjects: Commerce; Hard currency; Islamic economics

Question: My question is regarding the handling of fruits and vegetables in the workplace as one’s job. Picking and packing them. And ones wages in return for this. I know the general principle is that fruits and vegetables are Halal, but ....

Subjects: Islamic jurisprudence; Labour

Question: Following the Fatwa regarding local government pension schemes dated August 3rd 2015, does the issue of uncertainty render NHS pensions as impermissible ?.

Subjects: Pensions

Question: Can you please tell me if car finance offered through Amanah prestige is Halal and Shariah compliant ? www.amanahprestige.com.

Subjects: Automobiles; Financing; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: Can you please confirm “Income protection policies” and “Critical illness cover” insurance policies are both Haraam ?.

Subjects: Income; Insurance; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: I work for the London borough of newham and I have been opted in to the pension scheme with LGPS (Local Government Pension Scheme). I have heard some pensions are not permissable and would like to know if the LGPS pension scheme is permissable or not..

Subjects: Dues; Islamic jurisprudence; Pensions

By: al-Hammah, Azzuz. Global Islamic Economics Magazine. No. 38 (Jul. 2015), pp.72-76, 5 p.

Subjects: Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions; Bahrain; Accounting; Islam; Standards

Publisher: Centre of Political Economical and Social Research (Sakarya, Turkey)
Start Date: 2015

By: Iqbal, Zamir; Mirakhur, Abbas; Askari, Husayn…[et al.]. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.269-275, 7 p.

Subjects: Economic sociology; Islam; Islamic economics; Islamic jurisprudence; Macroeconomics

By: Musa, Uthman Sayyid Hasan; Echchabi, Abd al-Ghani; Abd al-Aziz, Hasan. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.249-266, 18 p.

Subjects: Banks; Financing; Investments; Islamic jurisprudence; Stockholders

By: Karbhari, Yusuf. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.237-248, 12 p.

Subjects: Assets; Financial markets; Financing; Islam; Speculation

By: Sad Allah, Rida. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.215-235, 21 p.

Subjects: Banks; Financing; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; ٌLeasing

By: al-Suwaylim, Sami Bin Ibrahim. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.199-212, 14 p.

Subjects: Banking; Banks; Financing; Islam; Religious aspects

Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.185-198, 14 p.

Subjects: Banks; Financing; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; Religious aspects

By: Arif, Muhammad. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.157-184, 28 p.

Subjects: Derivative securities; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; Justice; ٌLeasing

By: Ahmad, Abu Umar Faruq; Ayyub, Muhammad Sadiq; Bin Mahbub, Ismail. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.117-154, 38 p.

Subjects: Finance; Insurance; Islam; Islamic jurisprudence; Risk management

By: Khalid, Safi Allah; Khandkir, Abd al-Wahhab. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.79-113, 35 p.

Subjects: Banks; Economics; Islam; Islamic economics; Islamic jurisprudence

By: Iqbal, Munawwir. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.45-78, 34 p.

Subjects: Economics; Financing; Islam; Islamic economics; Saudi Arabia

By: Belouafi, Ahmad Mahdi al-Sharif; Bu Raqbah, Shawqi Ashur; Sasi, Karimah. Journal of King Abdulaziz University : Islamic Economics. Vol. 28, no. 2 (2015), pp.3-44, 42 p.

Subjects: Banks; Financing; Islam; Islamic economics; Islamic jurisprudence

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Subjects: Bank accounts; Islamic Banks; Islamic jurisprudence; Overdrafts; Usury

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Subjects: Contracts; Electronic commerce; Internet; Islamic jurisprudence

Question: Is an agreement permissible on restricting the price of a commodity in a Salam sale according to rates of a particular market (or for instance, at a market price less 10 %), the market rate being the one prevalent on ....

Subjects: Forward buying; Islamic jurisprudence; Market economy; Price policy; Sales