Wednesday, December 14, 2016

Islamic finance in Europe (13)

Continuation
1. ISLAMIC FINANCE – PRINCIPLES AND CHARACTERISTICS*
1.1. DEFINITION AND SOURCES
An Islamic financial system is one that complies with Islamic religious law (Shari’ah).
It has the distinctive feature that it tries to reconcile a secular financial system with the basic tenets of the Islamic faith.
Under Islam, there is no concept of an economy functioning independently of the religious criteria.
That religious criteria which inform every single aspect of human life.
It says that, homo economicus is not:
o   independent
o   and separate
from the mu’min (believer).

*ANGELA DI MARIA
From the research paper of European Central Bank

(Authors: F.Mauro, P.Caristi, S.Couderc, A.D.Maria, L.Ho, B.K.Grewal, S.Masciantonio, S. Ongena and S.Zaher)

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