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Abbey Diaz liberal movements within Islam may deny the need for this field, since they generally see Islam as compatible with modern secular institutions and law.
For centuries Muslims have developed ways to integrate their religious beliefs with the external economic realities of the nations they live in. This has had varying degrees of compatibility with the empires and customs they encountered. Like most things in Islam, commerce adapts to
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In the
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ambition elevating Islamic science, with its own categories, concepts, analytical tools and institutions. Some of these revived traditional
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Islamic economic institutions, not just the
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Under a conventional interest based loan it is possible to "call" the loan if the interest rate drops and the borrower finds that he can find cheaper financing (i.e. pays off the entire loan before the end of its term, thus paying less interest). However, there is no way to call a loan issued by an Islamic bank. Thus, while the borrower from an Islamic bank is protected against interest rate increases, the borrower cannot benefit from interest rate drops.
Most Islamic economic institutions advise participatory arrangements between
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and brodkey labour (economics)/labor. The latter rule reflects the Islamic norm that the borrower must not bear all the cost of a failure, as "it is Allah who determines that failure, and intends that it fall on all those involved."
Conventional debt arrangements are thus usually unacceptable - but conventional venture investment structures are applied even on very small scales. However, not every debt arrangment can be seen in terms of venture investment structures. For example, when a family buys a home it is not investing in a business venture - a person's shelter is not a business venture. Similarly, purchasing other commodities for personal use, such as cars, furniture, and so on, cannot realistically be considered as a venture investment in which the Islamic bank shares risks and profits for the profits of the venture.
Perhaps due to resource scarcity in most Islamic nations, this form of economics also emphasizes limited (and some claim also
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although hybrid approaches, e.g.
depot for Grameen Bank which applies classical Islamic values but uses conventional lending practices, are much lauded by some proponents of modern human development theory.
See also: modern Islamic philosophy, Islamic bank, Islamization of knowledge, green economics, creditary economics
References *Muhammad Nijatullah Siddiqui, ''Muslim Economic Thinking'', (Islamic Foundation, Leicester, UK)
*Syed Nawab Haider Naqi, ''Ethics and Economics: An Islamic Synthesis'', (Islamic Foundation, Leicester, UK)
*Umar Chapra/M. Umar Chapra, ''Islam and the Economic Challenge'', (Islamic Foundation, Leicester, UK)
*http://www.soundvision.com/Info/money/booklistislamiceconomics.asp
*http://islamicity.com/finance/IslamicBanking_References.htm
*http://www.gdrc.org/icm/islamic-banking.html
External links * http://www.uga.edu/islam/islamwest.html#Liberal, from Alan Godlas' Islamic resources page at the University of Georgia
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