Is Islamic Banking Really Islamic? An Insider's view with Harris Irfan

Join our Membership to get access to exclusive monthly calls: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com/member... Muslims worldwide have come to the realisation that the prevailing capitalist economic system does not serve us ethically. With its interest-based banking and casino-style financial instruments, a devout believer has no choice but to attempt to escape its haram, even if that hinders the progress and prosperity of our daily lives. In recent years, Islamic finance has been touted as an ethical alternative. A way to escape the haram riba based economy. Some have even presented it as an alternative to financial capitalism. The rationale behind these products is to accommodate the detailed Shariah rulings on trade and many Islamic scholars have endorsed products that Western financial institutes and governments have embraced. Our guest this week was an Islamic finance industry insider. Harris Irfan is currently the CEO of Cordoba Capital Markets https://www.ccmkts.com. He has 29 years of investment banking and consulting experience. He was the former co-founder of Deutsche Bank's world-leading Islamic finance team and CEO of Deutsche's Islamic finance subsidiary. He is the Former Global Head of Islamic Finance at Barclays, and then Head of Investment Banking for the Rasmala group. He is also the author of "Heaven's Bankers: Inside the Hidden World of Islamic Finance", the critically acclaimed best-seller about the Islamic finance industry. As always, you can comment your thoughts below. Find us on: Twitter:   / thinking_muslim   Facebook:   / the-thinking-muslim-podcast-105790781361490   Instagram:   / thinkingmuslimpodcast   Telegram: https://t.me/thinkingmuslim Host:   / jalalayn   Website Archive: https://www.thinkingmuslim.com #TheThinkingMuslimPodcast The Thinking Muslim Podcast Episode 107 00:00 Introduction 02:13 The Makkah Clocktower 07:36 Investment Banks Abuse 09:58 Fractional Reserve Banking 13:48 Halal Banks? 16:43 But Buying a House? 20:43 Regulatory Issues? 22:07 Risk Sharing ? 28:15 So How Do Muslims Invest? 31:10 Islamic Scholars Wrong? 36:23 Scholars Not Economists? 39:00 The Doomsday Fatwa 44:46 Makes Haram Halal 49:32 Governments Passing Laws 51:53 The Goals of the Shariah 57:50 Capitalism 1:01:54 What is Capitalism 1:07:05 Erdogan and the Riba Trap 1:13:07 Brics Currency & Dedolarisation? Timestamps