The Efficacy of Financial Structures for Islamic Taxes and Dues

<p>For over a millennium Islamic law has institutionalised money (and other economic assets) to implement its vision of a just society. Be it religious taxation in the form of <em>zak��t</em> charitable donations in the form of <em>���adaqa </em>or religious endowments (<em>awq��f</em>) the dowry that is paid by a man to his would-be wife in a marriage contract or the different categories of financial compensation within Islamic criminal and tort law the Sharia utilises money and wealth for a diverse range of functions and objectives. Some of these assume a functioning political framework involving government officials and an Islamic judiciary system while others seem to be effective only in the pre-modern contexts in which they were conceived and implemented. This volume gathers papers from the 7<sup>th</sup> AMI Contemporary Fiqh�� Issues Workshop exploring the efficacy of financial structures for Islamic taxes and dues. It explores the laws of religious taxation in Islam from a variety of historical philosophical ethical and sociological perspectives. </p>