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Key Highlights of the Islamic Finance Stability Report 2026

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Islamic Finance Stability Report 2026 with global market, technology, risk, and sustainability sectors

The global Islamic financial services industry reached $4.4 trillion in assets in 2025, with growth in banking, capital markets, and insurance sectors. Islamic banking remains dominant, but non-banking segments are growing faster. The industry is concentrated in GCC and EAP regions (75% of assets). Sukuk markets expanded to $1.10 trillion, with strong growth in sustainability and climate-related issuances. Islamic insurance grew double-digit, driven by emerging markets and mandatory insurance requirements.

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Integrative Methodology of Islamic Economics: A Note

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The methodological contribution of Shaikh (2026) is to formulate, more sharply than most of the literature, the choice between an assimilative economics that prices the sacred and a distinctive economics that abandons the analytical, and to argue – on the strength of World Values Survey evidence of broadly shared moral and market attitudes – that the discipline should occupy neither pole but an integrative middle. That diagnosis is sound, and the integrative impulse is the correct one. Its limitation is structural rather than substantive: Shaikh (2026) integrates the scope of analysis while partitioning its method, housing market and beyond-market behaviour under one disciplinary roof but assigning each its own separate toolkit. The result is integration by segregation, a one- dimensional fork resolved by keeping the two domains apart, and the seam shows wherever a single decision carries mixed motives.

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Beyond Prohibitions: Unveiling the Hidden Dynamics of Islamic Economics and Finance

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Book titled Islamic Finance Principles Practice and Innovation by Dr. Abdullah Al-Hassan with intricate gold and teal Islamic design

This research paper provides a theoretical reframing of the objectives underlying Islamic economics and finance. While Islamic finance is largely known for avoiding specific prohibitions—such as Riba (interest), Gharar (excessive ambiguity), and Maysir (gambling)—critics argue that it has become operationally identical to conventional finance. The author argues against this phenomenon of ‘Shariah arbitrage’, where the outward form is Islamic but the substance remains conventional.

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Breaking the Trap of Debt, Inflation, Interest and Poverty

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The book by Qanit Khalilullah and Sohaib Umar offers a critique of the modern fractional-reserve banking system, arguing that it is the primary engine behind chronic economic instability, inflation, and wealth inequality. The authors propose a radical macroeconomic transition to a full-reserve banking model. This proposal is specifically tailored as a structural panacea for Pakistan’s crippling debt crisis, while simultaneously being framed as a genuine path to establishing a Shari’ah-compliant Islamic financial system.

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Key Highlights of the Global Trade Report

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Infographic showing global trade highlights, regional export/import trends, sectoral growth, and future projections.

World merchandise trade grew 4.6% in 2025, beating the 2.4% forecast, as demand for AI-related goods offset tariff uncertainty and policy risks. Asia drove 71% of that growth, supported by resilient emerging-market demand, expansionary policies, and North American frontloading ahead of US “reciprocal” tariffs. Pre-conflict projections had 2026 merchandise trade growth slowing to 1.9% and global GDP at 2.8%. However, the Middle East conflict has curtailed Persian Gulf oil shipments, which account for 20% of global liquid petroleum use, pushing crude to ∼$90/barrel and LNG to ∼$16/MMBtu. If prices stay high, merchandise trade growth may drop to 1.4% and GDP to 2.5% in 2026.

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From Ontological to Epistemic–Institutional Halal

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Conceptual graphic showing transition from ontological halal focusing on intrinsic nature, divine commands, and raw substances to epistemic-institutional halal involving knowledge, methods, verification, and institutional governance.

Contemporary halal certification represents a fundamental institutional transformation: the shift from an ontological framework in which permissibility is assessed directly against Islamic law to an epistemic-institutional regime in which halal status is constituted through institutional verification. This transformation is a necessary response to the informational conditions of modern economies, but it introduces structural risks—certifier-pay conflicts, interpretive fragmentation, and form-over-substance compliance—that the current institutional framework inadequately addresses.

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Mobilising Home Equity for Climate-Resilient Affordable Housing ThroughTokenisation

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Hands holding an eco-friendly house with solar panels surrounded by icons of currency, blockchain, and sustainability.

To catalyze systemic transformation, the author introduces the Global Housing Resilience Accelerator (GHRA), which implements a mechanism called Tokenised Sustainable Equity for Safe Housing (TSESH). By leveraging technological and regulatory advancements in block chain and blended finance, TSESH transforms trapped housing equity into a liquid, verified resilience asset class called Resilience Property Tokens (RPTs), structured with binding social protection covenants.

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Islamization of Modern Science and Its Philosophy

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The book deconstructs the methodology of modern science. It acknowledges the empirical success but highlights its limitations. Modern science only addresses the how (mechanism) and ignores the why (purpose). By restricting reality to what can be measured in a lab, modern science ignores the metaphysical realm, leading to a fragmented understanding of existence. The book also explores the historical tension between the Church and science in Europe, which led to the total separation of religion and the state. The author argues that because Islam never had a ‘Dark Age’ conflict between faith and reason (as seen in the Islamic Golden Age), the Western secular model of science is a solution to a problem that never existed in the Muslim world.

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Key Highlights of the State of Energy Innovation 2026

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Solar panels and wind turbines generating renewable energy at sunset

The IEA’s Energy Innovation Forum highlighted the importance of policy support, international collaboration, and addressing financing gaps for first-of-a-kind projects. Breakout sessions focused on AI’s potential to accelerate innovation, diversifying battery mineral supplies, and reducing carbon dioxide removal costs. Recommendations include co-operation between trading partners, facilitation of partnerships, and government support for innovators. With sustained investment and cooperation, energy innovation can drive economic growth, improve energy security, and reduce emissions.

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