Insight Note
CIRIC Zakat Research Program: Public Insight Note
Introducing CIRIC’s Zakat Research Program and its institutional approach to zakat.
Antoine Laviolette
Vice-Chairman & Executive Lead
Biography
After completing a Master’s degree in Finance from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University, Antoine obtained several certificates in Islamic finance. As a Certified Shari’ah Advisor and Auditor from AAOIFI, he is passionate about issues related to reform in this sector, with a particular emphasis on the Maqasid al-Shariah — the overarching objectives of the Islamic religion — applied to Islamic finance.
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Research Paper
From Shariah-Compliant to Shariah-Based: Toward an Islamic Banking Model Genuinely Grounded in the Maqasid al-Shariah
Why Islamic banking keeps mimicking debt despite its risk-sharing principles, and how to fix it.
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