Contemporary Awqaf and SDGs – II
Waqf projects relating to economic empowerment of women (SDG5) have largely focused on decent work (SDG8). We may therefore, discuss them together. Projects have specifically…
Category: Maqasid al-Shariah
Maqasid Al-Shariah, SDGs and the Ottoman Waqf
The Ottoman awqaf addressed societal concerns far beyond the SDGs. People were born in waqf property, educated in waqf schools, worked in waqf enterprises, received…
Setting a Maqasid-Driven Development Agenda for Islamic Finance – IV
More importantly, we examine how Islamic social finance in general and awqaf in particular can play a role in operationalizing the areas of alignment between…
Setting a Maqasid-Driven Development Agenda for Islamic Finance – III
The specific MaS corollaries that capture a clear spiritual and religious dimension could not be mapped to the SDGs that are faith-neutral, rooted in materialistic…
Setting a Maqasid-Driven Development Agenda for Islamic Finance – II
If we want to juxtapose Maqasid-driven actions along with SDG-driven actions in the same two-dimensional space, a realistic approach would be to use spiritual gains…
Setting a Maqasid-Driven Development Agenda for Islamic Finance – I
With an expanded scope we propose to examine the alignment or misalignment between MaS and SDGs further down the hierarchy of goals. Highlighting areas of…
Fighting Covid-19 with Sadaqah & Faith
The numbers are scary. As we write this, there are four and a quarter hundred thousand humans reported to be affected by the pandemic Covind-19.…
Blockchains through the Lens of Islamic Economics
Verifiability, traceability, immutability, validation through consensus, sharing through network, inter-generational distribution – attributes and concepts common to block chain methodology have a root in Islamic…
The Issue of Identity in Digital Distribution of Zakat
My last blog ended on a note that digitizing zakat payments to beneficiaries would be more efficient, as compared to payments involving hard cash or…
The Sustainable Development Goals from a Shariah Perspective – VII
Since the religion of Islam sets the agenda for development in predominantly Muslim societies, it is interesting to examine to what extent the SDGs conform…