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Most Islamic finance is in banking, but non-banking finance such as sukuk, equity markets, investment funds, insurance (takaful), and microfinance, [254] [242] is also fast-growing, [254] [242] and as of 2013 represented about one-fifth of total assets in Islamic finance. [254] [242]
Structure of simple mudaraba contract [11]. Mudarabah is a partnership where one party provides the capital while the other provides labor and both share in the profits. [12] [13] The party providing the capital is called the rabb-ul-mal ("silent partner", "financier"), and the party providing labor is called the mudarib ("working partner").
Non-banking finance. Islamic non-banking finance has grown to encompass a wide range of services, but as of 2013, banking still dominates and represented about four-fifths of total assets in Islamic finance. [60] [44] The sukuk market is also a fast-growing segment with assets equivalent to about 15 percent of the industry.
A student in finance, management, law or economics aiming to learn about Islamic finance needs this side of legal theory in order to understand the peculiarity of this sector. All the particular aspects of Islamic finance in all these sides (legal, accounting, financial) are based on the legal particularities of contracts in traditional Islamic ...
However according to another Islamic finance promoter—Faleel Jamaldeen -- "murabaha payments represent debt" and because of that are not "negotiable or tradable" as Islamic finance instruments, making them (according to Jamaldeen) unpopular among investors. [31] Hadith also supports use of credit-sales transactions such as murabaḥa.
ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance (IIJIF) is an academic journal publishing research in the fields of Islamic economics and finance. It is published by the International Shari’ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA), which has been vested the task to promote applied Shari’ah research in the niche area of Islamic finance.
Challenges in Islamic finance; Islamic banking and finance; Islamic finance products, services and contracts; Islamic International Ratings Agency; Profit and loss sharing; Sharia and securities trading
A number of economists have lamented that while Islamic Finance was originally a "subset" of Islamic Economics, economics and research in pure Islamic economics has been "shifted to the back burner". [117] Funding for research has gone to Islamic Finance [118] despite the lack of "scientific knowledge to back" the claims made for Islamic ...