Corruption according to the main sources of islam

Corruption is a widespread global problem that has far reaching negative consequences on all spheres of life. Muslim-majority countries are most often ranked as ‘highly corrupt’ by the Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Indexes. Yet the majority of studies about corruption are predominantly undertaken from a Western perspective. A review of the available literature would suggest that it is hard to find a piece of work that considers the problem of corruption from all its theoretical aspects from an Islamic perspective or is exclusively dedicated to examining it from to the perspective of the Qur’an, Sunnah, or indeed both together. To fill this gap, this paper is a thematic examination of the problem of corruption according to the main sources of Islam; i.e. the Qur’an and Sunnah, through which an attempt is made to investigate the main theoretical facets in relation to understanding and tackling corruption.