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Kyrgyzstan introduced sukuk into its securities law in 2016, but the first sukuk (a privately placed Mudarabah sukuk) was only issued in 2023, [102] followed by a number of issues of Sukuk al-Wakalah Bi Al-Istithmar, an investment agency certificate. Kyrgyzstan’s government set a goal to make the Kyrgyz Republic an Islamic finance hub.
The sukuk market began to take off around 2000 and as of 2013, sukuk represent 0.25 percent of global bond markets. [197] The value of the total outstanding sukuk as of the end of 2014 was $294 billion, with $188 billion from Asia, and $95.5 billion from the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council [Note 13]
Of these $342 billion were sukuk. The market for Islamic Sukuk bonds in that year was made up of 2,354 sukuk issues, [89] and had become strong enough that several non-Muslim majority states – UK, Hong Kong, [90] and Luxemburg [91] – issued sukuk. There are multiple Shari'ah-compliant indexes, created by Shari'ah screening of companies.
There are also Islamic investment funds and sukuk (Islamic bonds) that use murabahah contracts. [4] The purpose of murabaha is to finance a purchase without involving interest payments, which most Muslims (particularly most scholars) consider riba and thus haram (forbidden). [5]
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").
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In Islamic finance, al Ijarah does lead to purchase (Ijara wa Iqtina, or "rent and acquisition") and usually refers to a leasing contract of property (such as land, plant, office automation, a motor vehicle), which is leased to a client for stream of rental and purchase payments, ending with a transfer of ownership to the lessee, and otherwise ...