College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar Foundation, Doha

This thesis focuses on Al Faruqi’s method on the study of religious phenomena which has been developed in his book entitled “Christian Ethics”. The prime objective is to apply his method on the study of African Traditional Religion. It exposed and examined the usefulness of Al Faruqi’s methods of studying religion, specifically, the principles of disengagement; theoretical principles, and meta-religion, in relation to the Akan religion in Ghana. Information’s about the Akan religion in this study however was based primarily on a set of texts published in the 21st c.

It is commonly observed that the current methodology of product development in Islamic finance has failed to reflect the productive nature of Islamic economics. This is evidenced by a number of current products being substantially indistinguishable from their conventional counterparts according to the commonly-held views.

With an exploration for a new application of Awqaf in a modern banking environment, Cash

The paper represents a discussion and comments to Muhammad Najetullah Siddiqi's article on Islamic Economics: From Where, Where To?"."