Stability and Sustainability of Islamic Finance | Dr Monzer Kahf (Islamic Economist)
Dr Monzer Kahf
What this source says
Dr Monzer Kahf examines why an interest-free (riba-free) financial system is structurally more stable and sustainable than a conventional interest-based one, in a lecture delivered at the Institute of Policy Studies, Islamabad (12 October 2022). Kahf is one of the founding academics of modern Islamic economics: a PhD economist (University of Utah, 1975) who was Head of the Research Division at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank in Jeddah, and is now Professor of Islamic Finance and Economics at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha. Unlike a general dawah lecture on the prohibition of riba, this is a system-level economic treatment from a discipline founder — grounding the macro case the site rests on.
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- IPS TV
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- Comparative
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- 2026-06-23
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Compiler’s note
Reference to the lecture; quotes not transcribed — verify on the video before citing verbatim. Title + channel oEmbed-verified live 2026-06-23 (title exact; author_name="IPS TV", author_url youtube.com/@IPSTV). Channel identity confirmed: IPS TV is the official channel of the Institute of Policy Studies (IPS), Islamabad — an autonomous, not-for-profit policy-research organisation — which hosted the talk and published the same session at ips.org.pk (the talk's own event page); institutional own-upload of its own event, not an anonymous re-upload. Kahf's credentials (PhD Economics Univ. of Utah 1975; former Head of Research Division at IRTI/Islamic Development Bank; Professor of Islamic Finance & Economics at Hamad bin Khalifa University, Doha) web-verified the same day across multiple sources. First founding-discipline Islamic-economics academic in the YouTube corpus (complements Almir Colan, the practitioner) and a heartland (Pakistan/Qatar) institutional source. Kahf was previously present only as a books entry (kahf-islamic-economy.json), not as a primary-source video — adding the video is a genuine advance per the round-25 precedent (Faraz Adam added to video despite a prior text-only entry).
Topics
ribaislamic-finance
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