Riba in Islamic Jurisprudence – by Miriam Sophia Netzer

Riba in Islamic Jurisprudence – Submitted by Miriam Sophia Netzer

Table of Contents:

Abstract.

Introduction.

Chapter 1: What is ‘Islamic Finance?

i. Defining Illicit Profit.

ii. Sources for the Prohibition Against

Riba and Gharar.

Chapter 2: Islamic Jurisprudence and Finance.

i.Fiqh and Finance.

ii. Jurisprudential Methodology.

Chapter 3: Islamic Jurisprudence in Practice: Islamic Banking.

i. Shari’a Compliant Financing Instruments.

ii. Problems and Solutions in Islamic Banking: Institutions, Innovations.

Chapter 4: Islamic Economics: Islamic Finance Merges with Politics.

i. Macro v. Micro: the Economists and the Financiers.

ii. Islamic Economics and Political Islam.

Chapter 5: Islamic Finance and the State: An Egyptian Case Study.

i. A Controversial Fatwa.

ii Historical Paradigms of Authority.

iii. 20th Century Paradigm Shift: Uneasy Codependence.

iv. Legal Authority in the State of Egypt.

v. Sadat and the Rise of Political Islam.

vi. Shari’a in the Egyptian Constitution: Article 2.

vii. Merits and Demerits of the Al-Azhar

Fatwa.

viii. Scholarly and Popular Response.

Conclusion.

Appendix A.

Bibliography

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