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Please find listed below various edicts, guides, power point presentations and articles prepared by third parties. Please note Al-Qalam have not endorsed these documents and they are published for information purposes only, except where specifically stated.

Finance and Banking

• Revisiting Sharī‘ah Matters by Mufti Taqi Usmani
• The Credit Crunch: An Islamic Perspective
• Post Credit Crunch Crisis Reform
• Islamic Modes of Finance Presentation
• Islamic Economic Systems & The Debt Trap Presentation
• The Islamic Perspective on the Credit Crunch Presentation
• Islamic viewpoint on UK Student Loans
• Murabaha Swiss abridged paper
• Murabaha House Financing
• Schemes available with Bank Accounts

Interest

• Interest Calculations and Calculators
• Comparison of fatawa on the use of interest
• Is a contract-termination fee Riba?
• Non-interest account earning service credits
• An Introduction to Islamic finance

Contract

• Contract
• Using Forward-Exchange contracts as a hedging tool

Investment

• Leasing and Selling Investment Property
• Sukuk
• Sukuk and their Contemporary Applications
• Income Analysis of Companies as a basis of Halaal Earnings
• Stocks of Banks and Other Financial Institutions
• ETFS Launches Shariah-compliant ETCs

Insurance

• How conventional insurance and takaful differ numerically
• Takaful – an Alternative to Conventional Insurance
• A fatwa on Warrants
• Credit from Insurance Companies

Buying & Selling

• Selling before possession
• Selling before gaining possession
• The exchange of currencies
• Iqaalah of Sales
• Land Sale with the elimination of alchohol restrictions
• Selling Cigarettes
• Referring to Conventional Financing when selling
• Fiqh of charging commission

Zakāh

• Zakāh magazine by Sheikh Haitham al-Haddad