Critical Review of the Tools of Ijtihād Used in Islamic Finance
Sharī‘ah covers all aspects of human dealings, including Islamic financial law and its Fiqh nominated contracts, essentially the basis for all Islamic banking and finance transactions.
College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar
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The Role of Islamic Finance in Fostering Circular Business Investments: The Case of Qatar
| Health, food, wealth, and security as drivers of human wellbeing and foundations of the modern society are built on and nourished by natural capital estimated at US$125 trillion a year. This natural capital constitutes the services involved in many economic activities provided by nature (WWF, 2018). |
Electronic and Electrical Waste Management: Sweden and Malaysian Experiences
| The production and consumption of electronic/electrical devices are rapidly increasing and generating social, economic, cultural, and scientific benefits globally. However, this leads to an increase in the amounts of disposal, obsolete, defected, or broken devices. Electronic Waste (E-Waste) stream is growing very fast in the world, and it contains hazardous chemicals materials, which if not appropriately managed will negatively affect human health and the environment (Zhao, et al, 2019). |
Islamic Social Safety nets for the Poor: Pakistan’s Experience
Developing countries have been facing a number of challenges including poverty. Pakistan is one of the developing countries that is home to a large number of poor, constituting about one-third of its population. The state has been introducing different poverty reduction programs from time to time during the last six decades. These include integrated rural development to transfer payments such as
Fragmented Aid: The Institutionalization of the OIC’s Foreign Aid Framework
Although the Organization for Islamic Cooperation (OIC) was not established with the explicit purpose of providing aid to the world’s underprivileged, its founders were motivated, at least in part, by a wish to impersonate and enhance “Islamic solidarity” in the face of widespread poverty in Muslimmajority countries (İhsanoğlu 2010:3). Diverse OIC institutions emerged, including the Islamic Development Bank (1975), the Islamic Solidarity Fund (1974), and the Islamic Centre for Development of Trade (1981), dealing with both humanitarian and developmental concerns (Kayaoglu 2015:17).
Locality, Leadership and Pedagogies for Entrepreneurship Education
Embeddedness and local cultures and contexts are key in the development of entrepreneurship. Embeddedness is cultural, territorial and networked. All these aspects have to appropriately translate into entrepreneurship education, training and curricula. Entrepreneurs must be able to understand and translate values and culture, as well as the knowledge of their territories, into their work and practices. After a literature review, this chapter showcases these principles through the example of