BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Feisal Khan on How 'Islamic' is Islamic Banking\, world-wide an d in Pakistan?Feisal Khan\, Associate Professor\, Department of Economics\ , Hobart and William Smith CollegesIn 2014 Islamic\nfinancial assets were valued at over $2 trillion\, far from their humble\nbeginning as a niche m arket product in the 1970s. Pakistan\, far from the global\nor Islamic fin ance mainstream\, was among the first to convert to an ‘interest\nfree’ fi nancial system in 1985. How exactly does Islamic banking/finance differ\nf rom conventional banking and how valid is the oft-repeated charge that it\ nmerely ‘disguises’ interest-based transactions under an Islamic cloak?&nb sp\;Open to the PublicSponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan I nstitute of Global Affairs DTEND:20160302T183000Z DTSTAMP:20240329T051904Z DTSTART:20160302T173000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:SAC presents: Feisal Khan UID:RFCALITEM638472719448444007 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Feisal Khan on How 'Islamic' is I slamic Banking\, world-wide and in Pakistan?
Feisal Khan\ , Associate Professor\, Department of Economics\, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
In 2014 Islamic\nfinancial assets were valued at over $2 t rillion\, far from their humble\nbeginning as a niche market product in th e 1970s. Pakistan\, far from the global\nor Islamic finance mainstream\, w as among the first to convert to an ‘interest\nfree’ financial system in 1 985. How exactly does Islamic banking/finance differ\nfrom conventional ba nking and how valid is the oft-repeated charge that it\nmerely ‘disguises’ interest-based transactions under an Islamic cloak? \;
Open to the Public
Sponsored by the South Asia Center at the Moynihan Institute of Global Affairs