Islamic Finance FIN416
Assignment
FIN416 (
Course Name: Islamic Finance | Student’s Name: |
Course Code: FIN416 | Student’s ID Number: |
Semester: III | CRN: |
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Students’ Grade: / 35 | Level of Marks: High/Middle/Low |
Instructions – PLEASE READ THEM CAREFULLY
- This assignment is an individual assignment.
- The Assignment must be submitted only in WORD format via allocated folder.
- Assignments submitted through email will not be accepted.
- Students are advised to make their work clear and well presented, marks may be reduced for poor presentation. This includes filling your information on the cover page.
- Students must mention question number clearly in their answer.
- Late submission will NOT be accepted.
- Avoid plagiarism, the work should be in your own words, copying from students or other resources without proper referencing will result in ZERO marks. No exceptions.
- All answered must be typed using Times New Roman (size 12, double-spaced) font. No pictures containing text will be accepted and will be considered plagiarism).
Submissions without this cover page will NOT be accepted.
You are to write between a 3,000 to 5,000 words in the form of a scholarly article for publication in international journals on any one of the following topics:
- Islamic economy in the era of digitalization.
- Shari’a compliance objectives and values for the digital economy.
- Potential and realities of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Islamic finance.
- Metaverse prospects and issues for Islamic economy and finance.
- Islamic finance use cases for blockchain (public and private), non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and crypto currency.
- Islamic finance perspective on cryptocurrency staking, liquidity mining, and yield farming.
- Shari’a compliance/governance concerns and solutions on Decentralized Financial (DeFi) Platform and Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO).
- Islamic AI ethics and governance framework that address transparency, accountability, and fairness challenges in Islamic economy and finance.
- Financial inclusion and digital Islamic social finance (Zakat, Awqaf, Crowdfunding, P2P, etc.)
- Innovative, impactful, and sustainable Islamic finance solutions (net–carbon sukuk, ESG Islamic finance and investment products, etc.)
- Digital halal economy and Technopreneurship
- Islamic finance Impact of digitalization in Muslim communities.
- Sociological and anthropological perspectives of digital transformations in Muslim communities.
- Financial technologies (FinTech), InsurTech, RegTech, digitalization and democratization of Financial Services
- Islamic finance sectors (Islamic banking, cooperative insurance, finance companies, risk management, banking products and services…).
- FinTech in Islamic finance sector (Innovation in Islamic finance, SMEs financing, financing solutions…).
- Regulations, standards, Sharia governance (Sharia supervision, Sharia audit…).
- Endowment sector (Awqaf, third sector…)
- Capital markets and investment funds (Capital markets, debt markets, investment products, impact investing, endowment funds, sustainable Islamic investment…)
Papers beyond these domains that address the broader challenges and upcoming areas of Islamic Finance and Economy are also encouraged and welcomed.