Useful Articles

Please find listed below various edicts, guides, power point presentations and articles prepared by third parties. Please note Al Qalam have not endorsed these documents and they are published for information purposes only, except where specifically stated.

Finance and Banking

Revisiting Sharia'a Matters by Mufti Taqi Usmani

The Credit Crunch: An Islamic Perspective

Post Credit Crunch Crisis Reform
Islamic Modes of Finance Presentation

Islamic Economic Systems & The Debt Trap Presentation   

The Islamic Perspective on the Credit Crunch Presentation
Islamic viewpoint on UK Student Loans

Murabaha Swiss abridged paper

Murabaha House Financing

Schemes available with Bank Accounts

Interest
Interest Calculations and Calculators

Comparison of fatawa on the use of interest

Is a contract-termination fee Riba?

Non-interest account earning service credits

An Introduction to Islamic finance
Contract
Contract

Using Forward-Exchange contracts as a hedging tool


Investment


Leasing and Selling Investment Property

Sukuk
Sukuk and their Contemporary Applications

Income Analysis of Companies as a basis of Halaal Earnings
Stocks of Banks and Other Financial Institutions
ETFS Launches Shariah-compliant ETCs

Insurance

How conventional insurance and takaful differ numerically

Takaful - an Alternative to Conventional Insurance
A fatwa on Warrants

Credit from Insurance Companies


Buying & Selling

Selling before possession

Selling before gaining possession

The exchange of currencies

Iqaalah of Sales

Land Sale with the elimination of alchohol restrictions

Selling Cigarettes

Referring to Conventional Financing when selling

Fiqh of charging commission 


Zakāh

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