Master of Arts in Islam and Global Affairs

Digital currencies have received a mixed response from the Islamic banking and finance (IB&F) industry. As Shariah permissibility (or ‘compliance’) strongly influences the demand for and supply of products in the IF&B industry, the verdicts reached by Shariah scholars on digital currencies have a strong bearing on their adoption amongst users.

The objective of this study is to introduce the work of Gīlānī to academic audience outside the Indian sub-continent.  The religious and intellectual landscape of nineteenth- and the twentieth-century Indian subcontinent has given birth to possibly some of the most extraordinary minds of her history.

The need for change in the instruction of the method of memorization of the Qur’an is no longer a discussion of if, but of how. Bilal Menon, the creator of Qur’an Companion, a Qur’an memorization app, justifies the need for integrating digital technology with traditional memorization methods by sharing his story of memorization of the Qur’an. By the age of eleven, Menon had memorized the entire Qur’an, but as a teenager, he forgot it completely. As a university student, he began a new journey with the Qur’an, and revived his link with the Qur’an.