Articles on Islamic Finance
Shari’ah compliance in Islamic banking is necessary. However, achieving that requires certain additional operations and costs which may lead to Islamic banks incurring some additional costs which conventional banks simply avoid. This may make Islamic banks to become costlier than conventional banks and which will reflect in weak position in price competitiveness.
اسلامی اقتصادی نظام میں سرمائے کا کوئی مقررہ معاوضہ نہیں ہے۔ لہذا، پیداوار کے عمل سے پیدا ہونے والے حقیقی منافع میں سرمایہ کو اپنا حصہ مل سکتا ہے مگر جس کے لیے ضروری ہے کہ سرمایہ نفع نقصان میں شامل ہو۔ اس سے پیداواری سرگرمیوں مں سرمایہ کاری بڑھتی ہے اور سرمایہ کاری کے نفع بخش ہونے کے لیے صرف ایک فریق یعنی قرض دار ہی نہیں بلکہ تمام سرمایہ دار مل کر سرمایہ کاری کے نفع بخش ہونے کے لیے محنت اور جدوجہد کرتے ہیں۔ اس سے آمدنی کے ساتھ ساتھ دولت کی تقسیم پر بھی مثبت اثرات مرتب ہوسکتے ہیں۔
The aim of Islamic social finance is to support socio-economic empowerment, progress, and the development of society. Pooling resources from social finance instruments, like Zakat (alms giving), Waqf (endowments), Qardh al-hasan (interest free benevolent lending), Takaful, and Sadaqah (charity), can establish and lead to growth of lower-income micro-enterprises in the country.
This paper mathematically analyzes the two-tier Mudarabah model in an exclusive Islamic financial environment and under dual banking system.
This paper identifies the role of Istihsan in Islamic finance that should be emphasized to strengthen the element of Shari’ah compliance.
This paper aims to explore different forms and models of integration between Islamic commercial finance and social finance including the problem that arise as well as the solution of each of the models to promote inclusive economic growth.
This paper is a novel attempt to analyze the involvement of Islamic financial institutions in supply chain of financed assets. It argues that since Islamic bank has to have ownership and possession of the asset besides undertaking risk of the asset in trade and lease contracts, Islamic bank has to engage more intently in supply chain than the conventional bank.
This paper discusses the theory of interest espoused by Böhm-Bawerk. He described time preference as the origin of the legitimacy of the existence of interest. Time preference is defined as people’s attribution of more value to present goods than future goods with the same quality and quantity. Future goods can be consumed only in the future, whereas present goods can be consumed both now and in the future.
It is suggested that the SBP makes amendments in the Digital Banking License Framework so that only Islamic licenses will be issued. This will ensure that future digital banks that are established in the country also operate under Islamic banking principles. Deposits in Islamic banking have grown more swiftly than in conventional banking. Hence, it is in the best interest of any new player in this market segment to offer Shari’ah compliant financial services than otherwise.
From the Islamic finance industry perspective, an important criterion for the industry wide adoption of any benchmark, particularly one that is published every business day, is the simplicity, reliability and robustness of its methodology.
Islamic Economics Project 