The Efficacy of Financial Structures for Islamic Taxes and Dues (1) (Proceedings of the Ami Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop)

The Efficacy of Financial Structures for Islamic Taxes and Dues (1) (Proceedings of the Ami Contemporary Fiqhī Issues Workshop)For over a millennium, Islamic law has institutionalised money (and other economic assets) to implement its vision of a just society. Be it religious taxation in the form of zakt, charitable donations in the form of adaqa or religious endowments (awqf), the dowry that is paid by a man to his would be wife in a marriage contract, or the different categories of financial compensation within Islamic criminal and tort law, the Sharia utilises money and