English Language Fatwa Databases

This is the culmination of our modest attempts to find available and free online resources for English speakers wanting to study Islamic Finance.

Many other sources are available only in hardcopy (e.g., Sh Yusuf Talal DeLorenzo's books from IIBI, Dr Wahbah al Zuhayli's two volumes on Islamic Finance, the AAOIFI Shariah Standards), but there are still some very good sources of fataawa available online and Insh'Allah this offers readers some benefit.

Fataawa Banks for Fiqh Al Mu'amalat

• Al Baraka Group Fatwa Bank (Product-Specific Fatawa)
• Assembly of Muslim Jurists of America
• Bank Negara Malaysia
• Fatwa Management System: World Fatwa Mgt and Rsrch Inst, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia
• Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program (HIFIP) (Free Login Needed)
• International Shari'ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA)
• IIBF Shariah Advisory Unit Fatwas
• IslamQA Principles of Fiqh-Transactions
• IslamWeb Fatwa Center (Transactions and Inheritance)
• Monzer Kahf Fatawa Listing
• Malaysia International Islamic Financial Centre (MIFC) (see The Shariah Resolution Book, for product-specific fataawa/resolutions)
• Securities Commission Shariah Advisory Council Resolutions

Fataawa Banks --General (i.e., Not Islamic Finance Specific)

• Fatwa Online
• Fatwa Islam
• IslamOnline

Lists of Links to Fataawa Banks (Many out of date)

• Fatwa Resources, Konsultasi Muamalat
• Fatwa Resources, Muslim Investor.com
• Rulings on Islamic Banking, IslamicBanking.com
• Mejelle (Ottoman Codification of Hanafi Fiqh)
• Risala (Maliki Fiqh)
  

Thanks as well to IslamicBanking.com, Konsultasi Muamalat, and MuslimInvestor.com, and to Kamal Abdelkarim Hassan Kamal Hassan and Siti Faridah from IBFnet.

Please send in comments and updates. The only way we can keep this "fresh" is if you help alert us of bad links and new developments! JAK!

English Language Fatwa Databases