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The period of Islamic history known as the Abbasid era is renowned for the growth and sophistication of its mechanisms in political, cultural, and economic life. Although there were no modern-style banks at that time, there were individual bankers. The bankers of the time were predominantly Christians and Jews rather than Muslims, and their practices were not totally Islamic. The Abbasid government tended to patronize these solo bankers. During this era of Islamic history, much was done that led to the development of the idea of banking institutions.

Writers on Islamic economics have not hitherto paid much attention to the ideological core of an Islamic economy. Humanity's role in the world is of social creatures subject to God's laws and His divine mandates. Man must distinguish between right and wrong. Both the capitalist and socialist economic systems may be critiqued. In capitalism, rivalry, deceit, and poverty run wild while wealth is concentrated in the hands of a few. While socialism claims to be more just, a socialist government is too much of a force and totally neglects religion.

While oil income has aided the development of Islamic banking, it is neither grounded in petrodollars nor limited to the Arab region of the globe. Particularly in Pakistan, but also in other parts of the Islamic world, the notion of interest-free banking was probed as early as the 1940s. Islamic savings banks operate on the premise that the masses have not found a place in the conventional financial system. It is said that perhaps over 90% of Muslims have no bank accounts at all. Saved wealth is held in jewelry and similar assets as a store of value.

The development of banking, like the development of money, has eased the exchange of goods and the formation of capital. Banks are intermediaries in the financial system: they take savings from households and put them in the hands of firms. A mechanism that transfers saved funds to investors is necessary. The use of paper money and checks is quite indebted to the banking sector. In addition to intermediary services, banks facilitate transfers of money and store valuables safely. Because of the use of interest, an entrepreneur must pay funds in addition to the loan's principal.

Non-Muslims have some incorrect understandings of

Islamic economists state that a society must have equality and fairness to achieve economic justice, and they enjoin various prohibitions, restrictions, obligations, and responsibilities to achieve such equal and fair conditions. Islamic economists incorrectly believe Islamic injunctions to be unambiguous guidelines for achieving economic justice; they do not even agree on what the Islamic injunctions are. Economic justice is not the only goal of contemporary Islamic economics.

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Growing interest in Islamic banking is part of a broader Islamic Renaissance. Islamic banking approaches finance as an equitable risk-sharing agreement between the provider of capital and an entrepreneur. The elimination of riba is based on the economic values of justice, stability, and growth.

While conventional banks are predominantly financial intermediaries that earn profits by obtaining capital from depositors at one interest rate and lending it to borrowers a higher interest rate, Islamic banking does not involve riba (interest).