Identifying Waqf Assets with Development Potential Using AI
Introducing Project Deliverance, I try to demonstrate here how public and private data sources that are commonly available can be used to create artificial intelligence…
Category: Waqf
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…
Contemporary Awqaf and SDGs – I
In a recent blog I presented a framework for identifying action points for the awqaf sector to help achieve the sustainable development goals (SDGs). This…
Awqaf Risk Management: A Case Study
By Dr Hisham Dafterdar The aim of this case study is to present a dramatically different outcome of a much lauded mode of development financing…
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…
Expanding the Virtuous Cycle of Benevolence through Cash-Waqf-Linked-Sukuk
With the success of such experiments, the realization that Islamic social funds can play a crucial role in meeting development finance needs of the economy…
Developing a Waqf System in the UK
By Mufti Billal Omarjee, Certified Waqf Professional (CeWP), IIIBF. As we are out of Europe, and with the rise of populism and the far-right support…
Awqaf’s Un-calculated Risks
Awqaf organisations, notwithstanding their religious and social objectives, in order to fulfill and promote their social mission, often find it necessary to expand their revenue…
Micro Waqf Banks: A New Breed of IF Providers for Indonesian Poor
I deem Indonesia, my new home, as the University of Islamic Microfinance. And I have good reasons for the same. If you exclude the replications…