The Importance of the Prohibition of Riba in Islam
A shorter statement of the case against riba and why the author holds it to be central.
A shorter statement of the case Hosein makes at length elsewhere: that the prohibition of riba is not a peripheral rule but a foundation of the economic order Islam prescribes. He sets out the Qur’anic verses and the prophetic warnings, and argues that a financial system built on interest cannot be reconciled with them however it is arranged.
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