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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Usury"”.
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A Re-Evaluation and Test of the Distributive Effects of Usury Ceilings and the Role of the Customer Relationship in Usury Theory
… flaws in the existing literature concerning usury ceilings. These flaws are: (1) a serious misapplication of the role of the customer relationship as posited by Hodgman and Kane and Malkiel, (2) an oversimplification of the distributive effects of usury ceilings, and (3) a general lack of …
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Legal stratagems (hiyal) and usury in Islamic commercial law
… particularly the \(hiyal\) used to evade the usury \((ribā) \)prohibition. The context of this thesis is the nascent Islamic finance industry in which these \(hiyal\) play a leading role. The \(hiyal\) have been appropriated from the classical Islamic legal corpus without appreciating their …
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The Time That Belongs to God: The Christian Prohibition on Usury in the 12th-13th Centuries and the Making of the Subject of Debt
… Christian debates about the ethics of usury in the intellectual milieu of the University of Paris. According to a frequently recurring argument, the problem with usury is that the usurer is a ‘thief’ because he sells time, which cannot be bought or sold. The present study reconstructs …
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A comparative analysis of risk-return characteristics between Sukuk (Islamic bonds) and conventional bonds.
… of financing in the Islamic financial system. As usury (interest) is prohibited in Islam, conventional bonds are not suitable for investors in Islamic countries. Since their launch in the 1980s, Sukuk have gained recognition and popularity as a substitute for conventional bonds. However, their …
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Islamic Insurance A modern approach with particular reference to western and Islamic Banking
… of Islamic law. (3) The prohibition of Ribä (usury) as incompatible with economic justice, also the objection by Muslims to Gharar (risk ) and Qimar (gambling), the legitimate grounds for making money, and achieving harmony between the material and the spiritual (4) Medieval Christian and …
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Tornado in Credit Desert: Role of Consumer Credit Access in Disaster Recovery
… consumers in Arkansas, a state with the lowest usury cap of 17 percent. Due to the restrictive cap, neither payday nor consumer finance companies operate in Arkansas, while they do in all six neighboring states. Using the difference-in-difference approach, I find that borrowers in border zip …
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The Contribution of Islamic Banking to Economic Development (The Case of The Islamic Republic of Iran)
… order to answer the first question, the Law of Usury-Free Banking in Iran was analysed and it was shown that this law is Shariah-compliant. However, the most important issue is to make sure that all banks in the country work according to the Law of Usury-Free Banking. In order to explore this …
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Jual beli perhiasan emas dengan cara tukar tambah di Toko Emas Enggal Pasar Pakisaji Kabupaten Malang: Studi komparasi empat madzhab
… is called as al-ashnaf ar-ribawiyah. There is usury in it if someone is wrong in using it or exchanging it. The objects have been set by ijma’ on its prohibition because there are six kinds of usury, namely: gold, silver, wheat, poetry, dates and salt. One of the sale and purchase form in the …
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The validity and challenges of third-party funding in the Saudi arbitration framework
… agreements involving gharar (uncertainty) and usury as public policy concerns. Therefore, to break the silence surrounding TPF, this dissertation examined the validity of TPF from Shariah and Saudi perspectives. Consequently, the dissertation concluded that TPF complies with Shariah, based on …
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Theological reflection on international debt: a critique of the Jubilee 2000 debt cancellation campaign
… themes of jubilee, grace and forgiveness, and usury reveal that despite their limitations, they offer valuable and distinctive contributions on issues of power and money, in their insights into the human condition, and into obligations across generations. Future theological engagement on debt …
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Memories of the War of Spanish Succession in eighteenth-century Spain (1714-1758)
… speculation into political debate. Fears about usury failed to influence debates about the merits of enemy investments in imperial joint-stock companies. Speculation fomented scrutiny and deliberation. Political speculation about an alternative set of alliances led Ferdinand VI to venture to …
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Empirical essays on finance and development
… United States. Using within state variation in usury laws, I find that more restrictive laws lead to an economically meaningful reduction in agricultural investment.
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The growth of Cape Town commerce and the role of John Fairbairn's Advertiser, 1835-1859
… of free trade, slave emancipation, the usury law, joint-stock companies or in his reporting of relevant extracts from overseas newspapers, government economic statistics and company reports, led to the coupling in this thesis of the role of John Fairbairn with the history of commerce. …
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Financial literacy, use of finance and welfare in post-apartheid South Africa
… programme to rectify this situation. The Usury Act of 1968 was repealed and the Financial Sector Charter was instituted in 2003. These reforms aimed to increase access to finance for all who required it, for economic activity and/or for consumption smoothing. But access to finance may not …
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Pandangan tokoh Agama Islam terhadap transaksi jual beli arisan: Studi kasus di Desa Jatikalen Kecamatan Jatikalen Kabupaten Nganjuk
… gathering transaction contains element of usury which is like a debt with more payment because the buyers of the gathering obtain greater profits. God prohibits any form of additional sale and purchase clearly and firmly, and also does not justify the sale and purchase of usury that seems …
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Penggunaan syariah card di kalangan santriwati hurun inn Pondok Pesantren Darul Ulum Jombang berdasarkan tinjauan fatwa DSN-MUI no 54 DSN-MUI/X/2006 tentang syariah card
… allowed during the practice does not deal with usury system of credit card which is growing rapidly and many people use the system of interest so not in accordance with Islamic principles and to meet the needs of the community over the card appropriate with syariah principle, a national Islamic …
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Tratado juridico: Edici on critica y estudio del manuscrito
… for merchants in buying and selling, loans and usury; and the rites for indoctrinating newborn into the religion of Islam. Our editorial principles have been formulated with reference to methods conforming to the standards established by Álvaro Galmés de Fuentes for the “Colección de literature …
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Analisis implementasi produk deposito mudharabah melalui pendekatan maqashid syariah: Studi kasus di PT. Bank Muamalat Indonesia Tbk. Cabang Rawamangun Jakarta
… were no transactions that contain elements of usury
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Konsistensi penerapan prinsip syariah dalam penjelasan pasal 2 Undang-Undang nomor 21 tahun 2008 pada produk Swagriya BTN IB di BTN Syariah Cabang Malang
… principles of sharia. Sharia is the absence of usury, gambling, gharar, unlawful and unjust. Islamic principles should be applied on products swagriya BTN BTN Sharia iB in Malang. This study aims to reveal how the transaction mechanism on BTN swagriya iB products, and to unearth the consistency …
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The natural rate, the money rate and inflation
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