...in the society are caused by many issues and variables. People can work to earn income and improve their lives through all difficulties in the economic conditions. People also save some of their income for their future needs. Their save money would be affected by inflation and their purchasing power would be diminished. Inflation is mostly a matter of monetary policy which occurs when a government prints money without real asset backup more than the amount that is need for a stable economy. This study examined the effects of implementation of Islamic currency on the prevention of inflation and price instabilities. Economic students of IIUM were randomly given questionnaires about the agreeability of Islamic currency in today’s developed economy and its usefulness to prevent inflation. The survey showed that Islamic currency model (dinar and dirham) would be able to control inflation and instabilities of prices by having 100 percent of gold and silver reserves for every single amount of money circulating in the economy. Moreover, it is emphasized that Islamic governments should implement this model to overcome the problems people are facing by inflation which diminishes their purchasing power of saved money and their uncertainty in future investments. Keyword: Fiat money, Islamic currency, perception, inflation, economic growth. Islamic currency: The perception of IIUM economic students on Islamic currency usage to prevent the inflation in a country 1. Introduction Many...
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...INTRODUCTION God created the two precious metals, silver and gold to serve as a measure of all commodities. Gold had played an important role for many centuries in a way or another until the end of Bretton Wood. After the collapse of Bretton Wood’s system fiat money and a floating rate exchange system have taken place in the monetary system. Fiat money is created out of nothing by the power of an issuing authority. With the spread of Islam, the dinar was minted in large quantities and gradually displaced the bezant gold coin as the major international currency, circulating throughout the Muslim world and the Christian Europe as well. The creation of dirhams and dinars is one of the blessings of Allah. They are stones having no intrinsic usufruct or utility but all human being needs them because everybody needs large number of commodities. The needs to revisit the gold dinar as a monetary stability has been voiced out by many scholars and ulama’s since 1970s. The resistance towards the interest economy could be the major motivation for the comeback of gold dinar. The prohibition of interest is not only mentioned in the Quran but the Bible and Torah. The gold prices are indeed relatively stable compared to other commodity prices, exchange rate movement and the stock market index. Manipulation of currencies and the impact toward one economy could be reduced because of the fact that gold does not inflate in value as it is a commodity and, thus has an intrinsic value...
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...Riba to interest in a loan ..................................... 33 4.6 Islamic Banking .............................................................. 34 4.6.1 Islamic Banks are banks ............................................. 34 4.6.2 Murabaha: what it is and what it is not ......................... 38 4.6.3 How the Islamic Bank’s version of the contract of Murabaha came into being ................................................................. 41 4.6.4 The danger of making principles out of contracts............ 46 4.7 The Stages of the “Islamisation” process ............................ 48 4.8 On the methodology of modernism .................................... 49 5. Understanding Paper Money ..............................................54 5.1 Paper money backed by gold and silver .............................. 54 5.2...
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...Riba to interest in a loan ..................................... 33 4.6 Islamic Banking .............................................................. 34 4.6.1 Islamic Banks are banks ............................................. 34 4.6.2 Murabaha: what it is and what it is not ......................... 38 4.6.3 How the Islamic Bank’s version of the contract of Murabaha came into being ................................................................. 41 4.6.4 The danger of making principles out of contracts............ 46 4.7 The Stages of the “Islamisation” process ............................ 48 4.8 On the methodology of modernism .................................... 49 5. Understanding Paper Money ..............................................54 5.1 Paper money backed by gold and silver .............................. 54 5.2...
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...saying that return to the gold standard can save the economic from being collapse, defunct and manipulated by the other country or bank. But, it is suitable for gold dinar to replace the current fiat money that already in circulation for more than a decade in the market? Even though the Gold Dinar is not a legal tender, the bimetallic gold and silver system has been used as a medium of currencies since the Byzantium era before it ended in the year 1875 when the fiat money was introduced to replace the gold and silver coins from the monetary system. As we know, gold dinar has been around us for a long decade. History shown that gold dinar is a very effective medium of exchange for a long time. But why all the country nowadays uses paper money? Paper money had such a bad reputation in the economy but still most of the banks use this type of money for their everyday transaction. There must be a reason why paper money holds a very strong influence in the current economy although it was devastating when we use it. But throughout the history, gold dinar also had shown an issue of its own. A gold standard had a breakdown in 1931 and the world witness a era of freely fluctuating exchange rates between national currencies. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was established in 1946 to make arrangements for fixing exchange rates among national currencies with some measure of flexibility and help them tied over their balance of payments difficulties. The return to gold standard was not considered...
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...GOLD DINAR - USING BILATERAL PAYMENT ARRANGEMENT OR ELECTRONIC PAYMENT SYSTEM1 WRITTEN BY: NURADLI RIDZWAN SHAH BIN MOHD DALI nuradli@kms.uniten.edu.my BAKHTIAR ALRAZI HANIFAH ABDUL HAMID UNIVERSITI TENAGA NASIONAL ABSTRACT2 The Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad first expressed interest in a universal currency that could help unite Muslim countries after attending the OIC summit in Doha, Qatar in November 2000. This led to an international conference entitled "Stable and Just Global Monetary System - The Islamic Dinar" organized by the International Islamic University in August 2002. After much research and consultation, a gold-based currency, called the ‘gold Dinar’, was put forth as a viable solution, and was expected to be implemented in 2003. This paper is an extension of the previous paper entitled "The Implementation of Gold Dinar. Is it the End of Speculative Measures?" published in the Journal of Economic Cooperation, SESRTCIC, Turkey volume 23, 2003. No 3. Keyword: Gold Dinar, Bilateral Payment Arrangement, Electronic Gold Payment System Introduction Several seminars and conferences were held in matters pertaining to gold Dinar in order to create the awareness of the government’s agencies, public and private sectors on the return of the gold Dinar as an international payment system. The seminars and conferences are also intended to find the best system or mechanism to ensure that the implementation of such system would not affect one’s economy...
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...Bank’s Guide to Islamic Banking Copyright Regd. No. Publications Rights Reserved with DARUL - ISHAAT KARACHI FIRST EDITION 2002 PRINTED AT ILMI GRAPHICS PUBLISHER DARUL - ISHAAT URDU BAZAR KARACHI-1 PAKISTAN. E-mail : ishaat@digicom.net.pk Ph: 021-2631861 AVAILABLE AT IDARATUL MA’ARIF, DARUL ULOOM, KORANGI, KARACHI DISTRIBUTOR IN U.K. AZHAR ACADEMY LTD., at continenta (London) Ltd.. Cooks Road, London E-15 2pw This copy cannot be sold in the U.K., unless sold by or authorised by the 3 Meezan Bank’s Guide to Islamic Banking TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface 7 SECTION I INTRODUCTION TO ISLAMIC ECONOMIC SYSTEM 1 2 3 Chapter 1: Chapter 2: Chapter 3: The Islamic Economic System Factors of production in Islam The objectives of the distribution of wealth in Islam 11 19 29 SECTION II RIBA, ITS PROHIBITION & CLASSIFICATIONS 4 5 6 7 8 Chapter 4: Chapter 5: Chapter 6: Chapter 7: Chapter 8: Riba in the Qur'an Riba in Hadith Riba and its types Commercial interest and usury Simple and compound interest 34 36 42 53 62 SECTION III ISLAMIC CONTRACT 9 10 11 12 Chapter 9: Chapter 10: Chapter 11: Chapter 12: Islamic contract Sale Valid Sale Five khiyars 66 68 70 77 SECTION IV ISLAMIC MODES OF FINANCING 13 Chapter 13: Musharakah 14 Chapter 14: Mudarabah 4 81 98 Meezan Bank’s Guide to Islamic Banking 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 Chapter 15: Chapter 16: Chapter 17: Chapter 18: Chapter 19: Chapter 20: Chapter 21: Diminishing Musharakah Murabaha Salam Istisna’ Istijrar...
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...the possible information they require under one cover. I have also included in this new version ten standard maps to enable the students to better comprehend a situation and to know where exactly the event took place at the given point of time. Judging by the feedback I have received since this book was first published in 1999, I have very high hopes that Insha Allah it will be as helpful to students as it was then. Amen! Muhammad Bilal Aslam 3 4 Table of Contents • Preface Passages from the Holy Quran History and Importance of the Holy Quran Arabia Before Islam Biographical Account of the Lifef the Holy Prophet (PBUH) Early Life of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) From Call to Migration Foundation of the Republic of Madina Wars with the Quraish Expulsion of Jews frm Madina Treaty of Hudaybia Unification of Northern Arabia Letters of the Holy Prophet (PBUH) to different Rulers asking them to Embrace Islam Fall of Makkah Section One Section Two...
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...RISK MANAGEMENT IN ISLAMIC BANKING AND FINANCE: THE ARAB FINANCE HOUSE EXAMPLE Bilal A. Fleifel A Thesis Submitted to the University of North Carolina Wilmington in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Business Administration Cameron School of Business University of North Carolina Wilmington 2009 Approved By Advisory Committee Howard Rasheed Cetin Ciner William H. Sackley Chair Accepted By DN: cn=Robert D. Roer, o=UNCW, ou=Dean of the Graduate School & Research, email=roer@uncw. edu, c=US Date: 2010.01.21 15:02:51 -05'00' ________________________ Dean, Graduate School TABLE OF CONTENTS TABLE OF CONTENTS ..................................................................................................... ii ABSTRACT........................................................................................................................ vi ACKNOWLEDGMENTS .................................................................................................. vii DEDICATION .................................................................................................................. viii LIST OF TABLES .............................................................................................................. ix LIST OF FIGURES...............................................................................................................x GLOSSARY .............................
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...Tourism and Hospitality By the same author Britain – Workshop or Service Centre to the World? The British Hotel and Catering Industry The Business of Hotels (with H. Ingram) Europeans on Holiday Higher Education and Research in Tourism in Western Europe Historical Development of Tourism (with A.J. Burkart) Holiday Surveys Examined The Management of Tourism (with A.J. Burkart eds) Managing Tourism (ed.) A Manual of Hotel Reception (with J.R.S. Beavis) Paying Guests Profile of the Hotel and Catering Industry (with D.W. Airey) Tourism and Hospitality in the 21st Century (with A. Lockwood eds) Tourism and Productivity Tourism Council of the South Pacific Corporate Plan Tourism Employment in Wales Tourism: Past, Present and Future (with A.J. Burkart) Trends in Tourism: World Experience and England’s Prospects Trends in World Tourism Understanding Tourism Your Manpower (with J. Denton) Dictionary of Travel, Tourism and Hospitality S. Medlik Third edition OXFORD AMSTERDAM BOSTON LONDON NEW YORK PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Butterworth-Heinemann An imprint of Elsevier Science Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington MA 01803 First published 1993 Reprinted (with amendments) 1994 Second edition 1996 Third edition 2003 Copyright © 1993, 1996, 2003, S. Medlik. All rights reserved The right of S. Medlik to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the...
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