This volume titled Access to Finance and Human Development – Essays on Zakah, Awqaf and Microfinance aims to bring together papers on these themes. The volume consists of selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance held in Doha from 19 to 21 December 2011 and from the 9th International Conference on Islamic Economics and Finance held in Istanbul from 9 to 11 September 2013. The papers are presented here in their original form as presented at the conferences, with changes limited to copyediting and correcting typographical errors. The conferences were organized by the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies (QFIS), Hamad bin Khalifa University; Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), Islamic Development Bank (IDB); International Association for Islamic Economics and Finance (IAIE); and Statistical, Economic, and Social Research and Training Centre for Islamic Countries (SESRIC). In recent years there has been significant progress in the development of modalities and practices of Islamic microfinance services. The papers included in this volume only partially cover those theories and practices.
PART 1: ZAKAH
Chapter 1: Financial Exclusion and Saving Motives in Brunei: A Need to Re-define Zakat & Awqaf Institutions / Ak Md Hasnol, Alwee Pg, Md Salleh
Chapter 2: Revitalization of the Traditional Islamic Economic Institutions (Waqf and zakat) in the Twenty-first Century: Resuscitation of the Antique Economic System or Novel Sustainable System? / Shinsuke Nagaoka
Chapter 3: Impact of Zakat in Alleviating Rural Poverty: A Case Study of MACCA in Bangladesh / Kazi Tanvir Mahmud, M. Kabir Hassan, Kazi Sohag, Md. Ferdous Alam
Chapter 4: Efficiency of Zakat Institutions and its Determinants / Norazlina Abd. Wahab and Abdul Rahim Abdul Rahman
PART 2: AWQAF
Chapter 5: Efficiency and Effectiveness of Waqf Institutions in Malaysia: Toward Financial Sustainability / Maliah Sulaiman and Muntaka Alhaji Zakari
PART 3: MICROFINANCE
Chapter 6: The Role of Islamic Microfinance Institutions in Economic Development in Indonesia: A Comparative Analytical Empirical Study on Pre- and Post-financing States / Nur Indah Riwajanti and Mehmet Asutay
Chapter 7: A Market-based Financing Model for Islamic Housing Microfinance Market / Zamir Iqbal and Friedemann Roy
Chapter 8: Crowdfunding in Islamic Finance and Microfinance: A Case Study of Egypt / Inmaculada Macias Alonso
