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Wakalah Mutlaqah

Arabic (وكالة مطلقة) for unrestricted wakalah/ unrestricted agency; an agency contract (aqd al-wakalah) in which the principal (muwakkel) does not...

Qabdh Hukmi

An Arabic term (قبض حكمي) that denotes constructive possession; a method of taking possession of an asset (commodity, currency, etc)...

Qabdh

An Arabic term (قبض) that denotes "taking possession" or receipt of an object of sale or exchange, an amount of...

Al-Uqud Ghayr al-Musammah

A class of contracts to which shari’a neither assigned specific names nor handled in details their respective rules and stipulations....

Al-Wa’ad bil Ba’i

Arabic (الوعد بالبيع) for promise (wa’ad) to sell. It is usually embedded in exchange-based contracts/ commutative contracts (uqud al-mua’wadhah) such...

Al-Wa’ad bil Bay’

Arabic (الوعد بالبيع) for promise (wa’ad) to sell. It is usually embedded in exchange-based contracts/ commutative contracts (uqud al-mua’wadhah) such...

Aks al-Inah

Arabic (عكس العينة) for reverse sale and buy-back; a form of inah sale (بيع العينة) in which a commodity is sold...

Al-Muslam Fihi

The object of a salam contract (aqd al-salam) which is exchanged for the price (thaman or ras-ul-mal). It is the...

Rate of Return Risk

With respect to unrestricted investment account (URIA) holders, it is the risk facing an Islamic bank or financial institution (IFI)...

Restricted Mudaraba

Originally taken from Arabic "mudaraba muqayyada" ; a mudaraba contract that is used in conjunction with restricted investment accounts (RIAs),...