Academic Presentation

The slides highlight: 1) the objective of the paper - to draw the attention to the four remarkable financial institutions which are meant to eradicate poverty, reduces inequalities and narrowing down the gap between the rich and the poor in an ethical and a just way; 2) current scenario/global poverty; 3) zakah financial institutions and products; 4) sadaqah financial institutions; 5) financial products under waqf.

The slides highlight: 1) issue and challenges of affordable houses; 2) Islamic teaching help in providing affordable housing; 3) creation of waqf to meet demand for affordable houses; 4) successful cases in transforming idle waqf properties into productive waqf properties.

The slides highlight: 1) definition of waqf; 2) current scenation of waqf; 3) transforming old waqf properties into productive waqf.

The main objective of this paper is to show how the Islamic social financial institutions (ISFI) can be integrated to overcome this problem. The paper is also intended to show how the ISFI can be integrated within a Micro-Finance Model for alleviating poverty and in assisting in providing the basic needs for them.

The main objective of this paper is to draw the attention to the four remarkable financial institutions which are meant to eradicate poverty, reduces inequalities and narrowing down the gap between the rich and the poor in ethical and just a way. These financial institutions are the zakah, waqf, qard-hassan and interest-free financial institutions.

The main objectives of this study are: 1) to present the main cause of the huge gap between the rich and the poor since 1970s; 2) to highlight the Islamic approach in handling economic development in a just and ethical manner; 3) to present the alternative financial institutions to interest/riba-based institution providing their financial products, their objective and their impact in narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor.

The slides highlight: 1) historical and current issues of the Islamic social financial institutions (zakah and waqf) in Muslim countries; 2) idle waqf properties in Malaysia/ by state.

The paper "Revival of waqf for socio economic development (successful cases worth attention)" presented at the International Seminar and the 2nd Journal of Islamic Monetary Economics and Finance (JIMF) 2016, Grand City Convex, Surabaya, Indonesia.

These are the slides presented by Associate Professor Dr. Magda Ismail Abdel Mohsin entitled "Sadaqah and waqf and their social impact (the case of Rida' al Walidain Organization/Sudan)" at the Final Meeting for the Comparative Study of Donation 2022, Tokyo, Japan.

The slides highlight: 1) to show how the institution of zakah, which is one of the socio-financial institutions, can collect huge amount of funds to be redistributed to the less fortunate and hence not only narrowing the gap between the rich and the poor but eradicating poverty on annual basis while eliminating riba from Muslim society; 2) current scenario poverty in Muslim countries; 3) current situation of zakah in Muslim countries; 4) current successful cases in Sudan and Malaysia.