IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/abd/kauiea/v10y1998i1no10p61-67.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Nature of an Islamic Bank ماهية المصرف الإسلامي

Author

Listed:
  • RAFIC Yunus AL-MASRI

    (Assistant Professor Centre for Research in Islamic Economics Faculty of Economics and Administration King Abdulaziz University - Jeddah)

Abstract

Conventional banks deal in money and credit not in commodities. They trade in debt and cash. The business of banking is a special kind of business, and banks did not come up only after interest was legitimized. If Islamic banks want to trade in commodities and deferred sales, it will take them outside the scope of banking. They would no longer remain banks in the technical sense. If Islamic banks continue practicing murabaha, leasing and other financing techniques with fines imposed on delay in payment, they will be tending towards the conventional model of banking. Banking in the technical sense is a child of interest and it is difficult to islamise it. Those who ignore this reality may gain time but they will face the hard truth, in due course. المصرف التقليدي يتعامل بالنقود والديون ، ولا يتعامل بالسلع ، فهو تاجر نقود وديون . فالتجارة المصرفية تجارة من نوع خاص ، ولم ينشأ المصرف إلا بعد استباحة الفائدة . فإذا أراد المصرف المصرف الإسلامي أن يتعامل بالسلع والبيوع المؤجلة فهذا يخرجه عن نطاق العمل المصرفي ، ومن ثم فلا يكون مصرفاً بالمعنى الإصطلاحي. إن المصارف الإسلامية إذا مشت في طريق المرابحة والإجارة التمويلية وغرامات أو تعويضات المماطلة فإنها تعود للاقتراب من نموذج المصرف التقليدي . إن المصرف بالمعنى الإصطلاحي هو وليد الفائدة ، ومن الصعب أسلمته ، ومن يتجاهل هذا فإنه قد يكسب زمناً ، ولكنه في نهاية المطاف لا بد له من أن يصطدم بها ، ولو بعد حين.

Suggested Citation

  • RAFIC Yunus AL-MASRI, 1998. "The Nature of an Islamic Bank ماهية المصرف الإسلامي," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 10(1), pages 61-67, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:10:y:1998:i:1:no:10:p:61-67
    DOI: 10.4197/islec.10-1.10
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://iei.kau.edu.sa/Files/121/Files/153893_IEI-VOL-10-04-Al-Masri.pdf
    Download Restriction: no

    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.4197/islec.10-1.10?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Belabes, Abderrazak, 2010. "Le Lien Entre Finance Et Economie Islamiques Via Le Modele Principiel "Zr"," Islamic Economic Studies, The Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), vol. 0, pages 1-37.
    2. Belabes, Abderrazak, 2010. "Le Lien Entre Finance Et Economie Islamiques Via Le Modele Principiel "Zr"," Etudes en Economie Islamique, The Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI), vol. 4, pages 15-37.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:10:y:1998:i:1:no:10:p:61-67. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute. (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cikausa.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.