Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives
Academic efforts in concocting a plausible alternative to fiat regime often staggers given inherent constrictions of Islamic jurisprudence and economic technicalities. Despite passionate advocacy of Muslim scholars, the campaign for gold dinar and silver dirham runs into allegations of being simplis...
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| description | Academic efforts in concocting a plausible alternative to fiat regime often staggers given inherent constrictions of Islamic jurisprudence and economic technicalities. Despite passionate advocacy of Muslim scholars, the campaign for gold dinar and silver dirham runs into allegations of being simplistic, anachronistic, regressive, unnecessary, and sub-optimal. Shunning the popular Maqasidic and historical approaches in debunking these claims, this paper highlights the need for a return to basics, the default factory settings as designed by God, and trowels a fitrah approach in evaluating gold and silver. As such, we proffer an open-minded approach in formulating an Islamically congruent currency and decry obstinate fixation with |
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| spelling | iium-500342021-07-23T07:37:07Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50034/ Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives Mohamad, Azhar HG201 Money Academic efforts in concocting a plausible alternative to fiat regime often staggers given inherent constrictions of Islamic jurisprudence and economic technicalities. Despite passionate advocacy of Muslim scholars, the campaign for gold dinar and silver dirham runs into allegations of being simplistic, anachronistic, regressive, unnecessary, and sub-optimal. Shunning the popular Maqasidic and historical approaches in debunking these claims, this paper highlights the need for a return to basics, the default factory settings as designed by God, and trowels a fitrah approach in evaluating gold and silver. As such, we proffer an open-minded approach in formulating an Islamically congruent currency and decry obstinate fixation with 2016 Proceeding Paper NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50034/1/ISERD_Designing_Fitrah_Money_Appraisal_of_Gold-Silver_as_Practical_Alternatives.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50034/4/PROGRAM_SCHEDULE_5th_feb.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50034/6/Thank_you_letter_ISERD.pdf Mohamad, Azhar (2016) Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives. In: ISERD-RW International Conference, 5 Feb 2016, West Drayton, London. (Unpublished) |
| spellingShingle | HG201 Money Mohamad, Azhar Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives |
| title | Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives |
| title_full | Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives |
| title_fullStr | Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives |
| title_full_unstemmed | Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives |
| title_short | Designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives |
| title_sort | designing fitrah money:appraisal of gold-silver as practical alternatives |
| topic | HG201 Money |
| url | http://irep.iium.edu.my/50034/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50034/1/ISERD_Designing_Fitrah_Money_Appraisal_of_Gold-Silver_as_Practical_Alternatives.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/50034/4/PROGRAM_SCHEDULE_5th_feb.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/50034/6/Thank_you_letter_ISERD.pdf |