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You Say You Want A Revolution: Interpretive Communities And The Origins Of Islamic Finance, Haider Ala Hamoudi

Haider Ala Hamoudi

Despite its currently conservative character, the modern practice of Islamic finance lies on a bedrock of social, cultural and economic revolution. Examination of these revolutionary origins and their attendant jurisprudential implications reveal much about the schizophrenia plaguing Islamic finance today, of a largely formalist practice repeating the functional aims of the early revolutionaries and falsely understood by substantial portions of the wider Muslim community to be achieving such aims. Though the revolution has not come to pass, some of the comparatively radical functional approaches conceived in the context of the anticipated upheaval, and in particular those of the Iraqi Shi'i …

Jurisprudential Schizophrenia: On Form And Function In Islamic Finance, Haider Ala Hamoudi

Haider Ala Hamoudi

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Muhammad's Social Justice Or Muslim Cant: Langdellianism And The Origins Of Islamic Finance, Haider Ala Hamoudi

Haider Ala Hamoudi

Though it is advertised and promoted as the bulwark of an alternative economic system based on populist Muslim notions of social justice and fairness, Islamic finance as a practice has failed to meet these objectives. The causes of that failure and the question of whether alternative approaches are possible are the subject of this Article.

The failure of Islamic finance to provide that which it promotes is the direct consequence of the application of an Islamic logic driven interpretive system through which rules are derived, which its adherents claim was formalized and systematized by the early jurist Muhammad Ibn Idris …

Money Laundering Amidst Mortars: Legislative Process And State Authority In Post-Invasion Iraq, Haider Ala Hamoudi

Haider Ala Hamoudi

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Toward A Rule Of Law Society In Iraq: Introducing Clinical Legal Education In Iraqi Law Schools, Haider Ala Hamoudi

Haider Ala Hamoudi

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