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Sharia
is the moral code and religious law of Islam
Islamic finance is not just the absolute prohibition of intrest. There is also the effort to maintain high
moral and ethical standards.
The word "riba" means interest, usury, excess, increase or addition, which according to Shariah
terminology,
Paid up share capital is the amount of share capital paid by the shareholders. This may
be less than the called up capital as payments may be in instalments ("calls-in-arrears") .
Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad was perhaps the first person to discuss Islamic
economics in detail in his books Nizame Nau (1942) and Islam ka Nizaam Iqtisadi(1945).
In the next two decades interest-free banking attracted more attention, partly because of the
political interest it created in Pakistan and partly because of the emergence of young Muslim
economists
The bank officially began its activities on 20 October 1975, inspired by King Faisal.[1] There are
56 shareholding member states.[2] Mohammed bin Faisal is the former president of the IsDB.[3]
On the 22 May 2013, IDB tripled its authorized capital to $150 billion to better serve Muslims in
member and non-member countries. The Bank continues to receive the highest credit ratings of
AAA by major rating agencies.
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