Since the independence of Bangladesh nearly thirty years ago, the country is still going through serious instability, socio-political crisis and lack of a sense of direction. Time and again the country has shown sparks of success that are fundamentally constrained by various institutional...

Scholars and researchers in the field are almost unanimous that poverty reduction is one of the primary goals of zakat and targeted upliftment is pivotal for poverty alleviation. Generally it has been argued that faqir (destitute) and miskin (needy) are the primary target groups and their...

Whatever way "underdevelopment" is defined and whether one accepts or rejects any such definition, the following questions remain unresolved: why "underdevelopment" persists, particularly in the Muslim world? Is it a permanent feature of Muslim societies? Are poverty and deprivation, hunger and...

Analogical reasoning (Qiyas) is one of the four sources of Islamic fiqh. It is recognized that the outcomes of Qiyas are generally speculative in nature. However, a vast portion of the corpus of Islamic law is derived based on Qiyas. One such area is marital relationship and mutual rights of the...