You are currently browsing the daily archive for March 8, 2010.

Islamic Banking – What’s at the backend?

By Muhammad Ali Nadeem

 

Like the other basic requirements of Islam, finance or financial transactions are one of the major activities that are needed to be compliant with Islamic modes. Riba wasn’t practiced in newly formed Islamic society of Medina soon after its abhorrence. Later, the religious scholars[1] have derived number of modes (of financing) to carry out financial transaction in line with Islamic Shari’ah needs.

 

Read the rest of this entry »

‘Quote of the month’

Dubai: The Islamic Finance trainers have introduced seven more Sharia Standards for the Islamic Banks and Institutions in the United Arab Emirates. The launch of the standards, which were developed by the Bahrain based premium Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). They seven were summarised as: Financial Rights and Its Management; Regulations of Liquidity Management; Bankruptcy, Capital and Investment Protection, Agency in Investment; Calculation of the Profit Transactions and Options of Trust.

New Islamic Finance Sites/Blogs

http://eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/Section/id-390626.html http://islamicbanksnetworking.com/

Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.

Join 17 other followers

 

March 2010
S M T W T F S
« Oct   May »
 123456
78910111213
14151617181920
21222324252627
28293031  

Monthly Posts

Blog Stats

  • 13,210 visitors

Since 27th May 2012

free counters
Follow

Get every new post delivered to your Inbox.