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