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New Website to Organize all Urdu Materials -- papers, translations, talks (audio/video): AZ4URDU

New Course (Feb 2019) on Topics In Islamic Economics, at IIIE, IIUI

For links to Islamic Economics, (courses, papers, videos, etc.) see Islamic Economics (link or Left-Hand Panel)

Guidelines for Writing Dissertation Proposal for Islamic Finance/Economics research: [link] (external link, provided by Mohammad Ashghar)

IIIE Guidelines for preparing MS Research proposals: [link]

ETHICS & Islamic Banking (external link to newspaper article on how ethics would lead to growth of Islamic banking)

For an online course on Islamic Finance, see LIBRARY link on left-hand panel.

See MY RESEARCH for a list of papers/talks on Islamic Banking and Finance

My paper on

Islamic Economics: A Survey of the Literature [link]

provides a framework and background within which all of the efforts to Islamize the economic realms of individual and social life should be placed.

Center for Islamic Legislation and Ethics Seminar on Ethics & Economics: Conference Question 1:What are the main objectives of financial institutions in the current neoliberal economic system in relation to the individual, society, state and global economy?

Objectives of Financial Institutions – Western & Islamic Doha, Qatar, 10-12 June, 2014 Dr. Asad Zaman

Mubashir Mukhtar's Website on Islamic Microfinance: [link]

Found one interesting topic on BANKING AND MONEY within the website. Interesting he have discussed it in very easy way, fractional reserve banking and the things revolving around it.

The link is: http://www.khanacademy.org/#browse

with the heading: Banking and Money, Videos on how banks work and how money is created.

Links, References and Research Materials for Islamic Banking and Finance.

Articles on many aspects of IBF at:

  1. Dow-Jones website at: http://www.djindexes.com/mdsidx/index.cfm?event=showIslamicArticles

  2. See also http://www.nubank.com/islamic/index.html

  3. and http://islamic-finance.net/elief.html)

The hot issue of the times is the battle of Fatwas between the Taqi Usmani group, which contends that existing Islamic Banks are permissible and acceptable under Islamic Law, while another group, headed by Maulana Saleemullah Khan Saheb, considers this entire enterprise to be wrong. Many books on this controversey have appeared, and are available on internet. Most of the material is in favor of Maulana Taqi Usmani. The fatwa against Islamic Banks is available here: [link]

For some general essays in Urdu, see: link

A recent informative book on derivatives and the damage they caused (in global financial crisis):

Codes of Finance: Engineering Derivatives in a Global Bank by Vincent LePinay, review

Islam and Economics