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Shari’ah and Maqasid Analysis of Financial Derivatives التحليل الفقهي والمقاصدي للمشتقات المالية

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  • Abdulazeem Abozaid

    (Associate Professor of Islamic Finance Islamic Finance Program, Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies, Qatar Foundation)

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There have been recently increasing attempts to ‘Islamize’ some financial derivatives. These attempts were initially meant to provide solutions to certain problems like the need to buy a currency or a commodity at a predetermined price on a future date for hedging purposes, but they later were developed to carry out the same strategies of speculative purposes as is the case for their conventional counterparts. The later development involves serious impacts on economic activities as ‘speculation’ has been singled out to be a major factor behind the eruption and escalation of the global financial crisis of 2007-2008. The paper analyses Shari’ah objections for the prohibition of derivatives as they are practiced nowadays. In the course of the analysis the paper utilizes Shari’ah objectives relating to the Fiqh rules as its main investigative tool. This methodology has been adopted to help outline the correct Islamization standard of such instruments, if possible at all, which is the acceptability of the instrument used as well as the purpose and the effect. Having outlined the standard, the paper seeks to apply it to some applications of the ‘Islamization’ process of derivatives in order to determine their acceptability or otherwise according to Shari’ah rules. ظهرت في الآونة الأخيرة محاولات لأسلمة المشتقات المالية، وتنامت هذه المحاولات مع تنامي السوق العالمية للمشتقات. وقد اقتصرت محاولات أسلمة المشتقات بادئ الأمر على إيجاد مخارج شرعية لمشاكل حقيقية، كمشكلة الحاجة إلى شراء عملة ما، أو مواد أولية لازمة، في تاريخ مستقبلي محدد. لكنها تطورت بعد ذلك لتشمل حاجات غير أصلية، فأريد بها إضفاء الشرعية على بعض العمليات السوقية الممنوعة في إطار ما يسمى بالتحوط (Hedging). والخوف من أن يتطور العمل على أسلمة المشتقات لتشمل أغراض المضاربة السعرية بها (Speculation). وهو الأمر ذو الأثر الاقتصادي الخطير، كما أكدت ذلك الأزمة المالية الأخيرة لما كانت المشتقات من عوامل حدوثها. يحلل البحث تحليلاً فقهيًا سبب حرمة المشتقات المالية بأنواعها، ويبين أثناء هذا التحليل بعض المقاصد الشرعية والاقتصادية للأحكام المتصلة بها، ليضع من خلال ذلك معيار الأسلمة الصحيحة للمشتقات المالية، وهو سلامة الأداة المستخدمة وسلامة الغاية والأثر؛ ثم يسقط البحث المحاولات القائمة لأسلمة المشتقات على هذا المعيار لتعلُم شرعيتها.

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  • Abdulazeem Abozaid, 2014. "Shari’ah and Maqasid Analysis of Financial Derivatives التحليل الفقهي والمقاصدي للمشتقات المالية," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 27(3), pages 3-44, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:27:y:2014:i:3:no:1:p:3-44
    DOI: 10.4197/Islec.27-3.1
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