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Entrepreneurship from an Islamic Perspective

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Four colleagues discuss plans beside a whiteboard reading “Tijarah (Trade) with Integrity” and “Maqasid al-Shariah.”

The paper outlines twelve foundational Islamic ethical principles and economic controls governing commercial conduct. These include Tawhid (monotheism and ultimate divine accountability), Sidq (honesty in financial reporting and marketing), Amanah (trustworthiness in handling stakeholder resources), Adl and Qist (justice and equity in pricing and employee compensation), Al-Ihsan (striving for excellence and benevolence), Taqwa (God-consciousness), Al-Maslahah Al-Ammah (prioritizing public interest), Al-Ayid Al-Halal (earning only through permissible means), and general social responsibility.

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The Determinants of Donors’ Behaviour Toward Islamic Charities: A Phenomenological Inquiry 

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Book cover titled Islamic Charity Research: Mapping the Pathways of Giving edited by Amina Khan and Omar Farooq

This paper investigates the underlying psychological and practical factors that motivate Muslims to pay their mandatory religious alms to specific Charity Organizations (COs) in Pakistan. Moving away from traditional quantitative approaches, the authors employ a qualitative phenomenological design, utilizing in-depth interviews with 16 participants from diverse urban and rural backgrounds.

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Methodology of Islamic Economics

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The book explains that the objective of religious life should be to change this world, including the personality of the individual himself and extending to the whole of human society, so as to reconstruct it in accordance with the will of Allah as revealed in the Qur’an. The religion should be understood directly from the Qur’an aided by the Sunnah, and all human interpretations should be treated as secondary, tentative and, in principle, liable to error and open to correction.

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