A Crowd-Funding Platform for Managing Zakat and Sadaqa
In a few earlier posts I sought to build a case in favor of creating a centralized pool/ platform (Should Zakat be Centralized in India?) for managing zakat and sadaqa …
In a few earlier posts I sought to build a case in favor of creating a centralized pool/ platform (Should Zakat be Centralized in India?) for managing zakat and sadaqa …
Ensuring a life of dignity for orphans is a very special act of piety, benevolence and kindness in Islam as in all religions. The holy Quran says: “Treat not the …
February 12, 2015 An Islamic social finance institution is essentially a non-profit or charity organization that seeks to operationalize the concepts of waqf, zakah, sadaqah and qard hasan. It has …
Social edupreneurs like Dr Manoj Nayak deserve respect. I am shocked to see how quickly our society can brush aside all the contribution of this man towards education, healthcare, social …
I was motivated to write this piece by the story of a poor farmer in India. The story of this 48-year old farmer Devidas Parvane from the Rasai village of …
It was an Indian scholar, Dr Muhammad Nejatullah Siddiqi who provided the first theoretical model for an Islamic bank in his celebrated book “Banking without Interest” in the 1960s. He went …
It was an eagerly awaited event. A day before the event, the daily Star of Malaysia published an interview titled “Taking Islamic Social Finance to the World” with HE the …
On March 26 a very interesting document “An Act of Faith: Humanitarian Financing and Zakat” prepared by Chloe Stirk was launched at an event hosted by Development Initiatives and Muslim Charities Forum …
2nd Yayasan Tun Ismail Berdafter Public Lecture on Islamic Finance at Kuala Lumpur Plan of Lecture: Opportunities Finance in Islam Institutions of Islamic Philanthropy 2.1. Institution of Zakat 2.2. Institution …
An abundance of fertile arable land, water resources on the shores of Nile and the presence of a hardworking farming community in the region have led a Sudanese microfinance outfit, …
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