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Special Purpose Vehicles and Corporate Sukuk: How True is “True Sale”? الشركة ذات الغرض الخاص في صكوك المؤسسات: هل البيع الحقيقي حقيقيٌ؟

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  • Monzer Kahf

    (Professor, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar)

  • Hiba al-Saudi

    (Internal Audit Manager in the Oil and Gas Industry, Qatar)

Abstract

Sukuk is a current hot topic in Islamic finance discussions. This paper aims to examine Sukuk and focus on the initial yet fundamental requirement of “true sale”- one that can determine if a particular Sukuk is, in fact, a Shariah compliant financial instrument. Ten Sukuk are selected for the test, issued between the years 2004 and 2012 in seven countries. Selection is not random and based mostly on availability of information necessary for conducting the test. The Sukuk are subjected to evaluation criteria developed by the paper and built on legal, financial, accounting and Shariah requirements. The evaluation reveals that only one of the ten Sukuk met the “true-sale” requirements. The rest contained several violations and therefore could not be considered Shariah compliant instruments. تعتبر الصكوك موضوعا حيويا في مناقشات التمويل الإسلامي. ويعمد البحث الحالي للنظر إلى الصكوك من زاوية مركزة بدقة هي مدى نجاح الصكوك، أو فشلها، في توافر الشروط الأساسية للبيع الحقيقي للأصول التي تُنقل إلى حملة الصكوك، الأمر الذي يحدد فعلا مدى توافق أي إصدار للصكوك مع الشروط الشرعية. وقد اخترنا لهذا الاختبار عشرة صكوك صدرت بين عامي 2004م و 2012م في سبعة بلدان. ولم نطبق في الاختيار المعايير الإحصائية للعشوائية وإنما اعتمدنا أساسا على توفر المعلومات اللازمة لإجراء الفحص. وقد طبقنا في اختبار حقيقية البيع معايير محددة قمنا بتطويرها من جملة المعايير القانونية والمحاسبية والشرعية. وقد أظهرت نتيجة التقييم أن واحدا فقط من الصكوك العشرة التي قيّمناها تتوفر فيه شروط البيع الحقيقي عند نقل ملكية الأصول من الشركة المصدرة إلى حملة الصكوك، أما بقية الصكوك فتتضمن مخالفات عديدة لشروط البيع الحقيقي، الأمر الذي لا يجعل منها أدوات مالية متوافقة مع الشريعة الغراء.

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  • Monzer Kahf & Hiba al-Saudi, 2016. "Special Purpose Vehicles and Corporate Sukuk: How True is “True Sale”? الشركة ذات الغرض الخاص في صكوك المؤسسات: هل البيع الحقيقي حقيقيٌ؟," Journal of King Abdulaziz University: Islamic Economics, King Abdulaziz University, Islamic Economics Institute., vol. 29(2), pages 3-21, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:abd:kauiea:v:29:y:2016:i:2:no:1:p:3-21
    DOI: 10.4197/Islec.29-2.1
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