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Substance Over Form : ○ Every one of your future clients is part of a system ○ Your job is to identify that system ○ Evaluate it ○ And then help your client’s individual issues directly ○ As well as…

Emphasizing Premodern Forms Because of the political and social upheavals in the Muslim world due to colonialism and losing power and prestige on the world stage, there has been an Islamic revival aimed at reclaiming this lost heritage. Islamist movements…

Historical Perspective Muslim scholars and philosophers have always claimed that God does not prohibit that which is good or beneficial.[1] Therefore, when scripture comes down prohibiting something that seems to have some benefit, jurists have argued that the prohibition must…

The main difference between Western and Islamic economics is debt-based financing versus asset-based financing. In the Western concept, the financier (usually a bank) lends money as credit and collects that money plus interest due to the debt that was taken from…

Obey Authority After the civil strife that followed the assassination of the third Caliph Uthaman, many Muslim scholars promoted a quietist outlook. This aversion to rebellion and overthrow of the government was borne out of the bloodshed of those civil wars…