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What Credit Cards May or May Not Do: An Economic and Shariah Analysis ما هي البطاقات الائتمانية التي قد تكون أو لا تفعلها: تحليل اقتصادي وشرعي

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  • Munawar Iqbal

    (Islamic Economics Institute King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia)

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In order to determine what a credit card may or may not do, which will then allow us to decide if it is permissible from an Islamic point of view or not, we need first to know what a credit card is. That reminds me of a long debate among economists on what is money. The debate went on and on (and still continues). However, a phrase (usually ascribed to Sir John Hicks, though it is not agreed that he was the first one to use this phrase) changed the course of that debate. The phrase: ‘money is what money does’; shifted the focus of the debate. It was agreed that money is to be defined by its functions. Anything is money which performs one or more of those functions. Three generally agreed functions of money were: medium of exchange, unit of account and store of value. لتحديد ما قد تفعله أو قد لا تفعله بطاقة الائتمان ، الأمر الذي سيسمح لنا بعد ذلك بتحديد ما إذا كان مسموحًا به من وجهة نظر إسلامية أم لا ، نحتاج أولاً إلى معرفة ما هي بطاقة الائتمان. وهذا يذكرني بنقاش طويل بين الاقتصاديين حول ما هو المال. استمر النقاش وما زال مستمراً. ومع ذلك ، فإن عبارة (عادة ما تُنسب إلى السير جون هيكس ، على الرغم من أنه ليس من المتفق عليه أنه كان أول شخص يستخدم هذه العبارة) غيرت مسار تلك المناقشة. العبارة: "المال هو ما تفعله المال" ؛ تحول محور النقاش. تم الاتفاق على أن يتم تحديد المال من خلال وظائفها. أي شيء هو المال الذي يؤدي واحدة أو أكثر من تلك الوظائف. ثلاث وظائف متفق عليها عموما هي: متوسط التبادل ، وحدة الحساب وتخزين القيمة.

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  • Munawar Iqbal, 2016. "What Credit Cards May or May Not Do: An Economic and Shariah Analysis ما هي البطاقات الائتمانية التي قد تكون أو لا تفعلها: تحليل اقتصادي وشرعي," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 29(1), pages 95-104, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:29:y:2016:i:1:no:8:p:95-104
    DOI: 10.4197/Islec.29-1.8
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