12 Points on How to Do Islamic Microfinance in India
Originally authored on June 30, 2008 Large section of Indian Muslims are poor. They also tend to get excluded from the formal banking and financial…
Originally authored on June 30, 2008 Large section of Indian Muslims are poor. They also tend to get excluded from the formal banking and financial…
In Islam, lending is considered more of a charitable act than a commercial one. For a Muslim, it’s a matter of faith not to expect…
In the paper titled “Leveraging Philanthropy: Monetary Waqf for Microfinance” Dr Muhammad Anas Zarka comes up with some interesting and innovative suggestions for designing an…
I take pride in being from the academia. In the world of Islamic economics and finance, the sense of pride is more intense. I am…
Livestock production is an important component of the local economy in Sudan, providing food, employment, foreign exchange earnings, a source of wealth, and supply of…
Salam has traditionally been understood as a mode of agricultural finance. Indeed, as scholars point out, one of the reasons why salam is admissible as…
The Abu-Halima Greenhouses Project of IRADA, designed in 2011, uses a composite model of intervention that combines several “smart†factors and is designed to address…
The name is now familiar among Sudan’s poor, unemployed and recent pass-outs from universities. The Irada program of Bank of Khartoum is experimenting with new…
A question that is often asked in the context of the role of zakat and indeed, of all forms of charity and philanthropy in poverty…
While Islam strongly encourages charity from the giver’s point of view, it seeks to minimize dependence on charity from the beneficiary’s point of view and…
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