IslamicEconomicsRschBureau Bangladesh ZakatAwqafMicroFin Papers 06
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Bismillahir Rahmanir Raheem
Call for Paper
International Seminar on
Islamic Alternatives to Poverty Alleviation:
Zakat, Awqaf and Microfinance
Venue: Dhaka, Bangladesh
24-26 November 2006
SPONSORSIslamic Research and Training Institute, IDB
Islamic Economics Research Bureau, Dhaka
Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd., Dhaka
Important DatesSubmission of Abstracts: August 25, 2006
Submission of Papers: September 30, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: October 15, 2006
Please send your abstract to:Dr. Habib Ahmed
Islamic Research and Training Institute
Islamic Development Bank, JeddahFAX: 966-2-637 8927
E-mail: [email protected]
Or
Prof. Md. Sharif Hussain
General Secretary, IERB
E-mail : [email protected]
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Dear Brothers,
Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of Islamic Development Bank Group,Jeddah, Islamic Economics Research Bureau, Dhaka, and Islami Bank Bangladesh Ltd.,
Dhaka are organizing an International Seminar on "Islamic Alternatives to Poverty
Alleviation: Zakat, Awqaf and Microfinance" on November 24-26, 2006. The Seminar
organizers encourage the submission of papers related to various aspects of povertyalleviation from Islamic perspectives. Issues of interest are included in the attached
'Outline of Seminar'. The papers are expected to be original, lucid, error free, and
analytically rigorous. Selected papers contributed to the Seminar are likely to bepublished. The papers can be theoretical, empirical, and case studies. The upper limit for
the size of the paper is 10,000 words.
There is no submission fee. All abstracts and papers will go through a refereeing process
before acceptance by the Seminar Technical Committee. The organizers will pay for the
authors coming from outside Bangladesh single round-trip economy class air ticket, and
for their boarding and lodging.
For the authors coming from inside Bangladesh a token honorarium of Tk. 15,000/- per
head will be paid.
OUTLINE OF THE SEMINAR
Different policies have been tried in the last few decades to mitigate the menace of
poverty, but it still persists extensively globally and in IDB member countries in
particular. With the failure of experimenting in top-down (trickle down) developmentpolicies for a few decades to alleviate poverty in most developing countries, financing
micro-enterprises is considered a "new paradigm" for bringing about development anderadicating absolute poverty. At the same time, Islam has instilled various institutions and
structures through which income and wealth can be redistributed to fulfill the basic needs
for all in the society. Among others, zakat, awqaf, and qard hassan played important rolein increasing the overall welfare and mitigating poverty. Though there has been many
seminars/conferences/workshops organized on issues related to microfinance, there has
been no attempts to study how it can be combined with the traditional Islamic institutions
to create newer models and synergies. The objectives of the seminar are :
(a) to solicit papers that discuss how these traditional institutions and microfinance can be
used in contemporary times to alleviate poverty in Muslim societies.
(b) to make theoretical and case-study contributions that are expected to examine how the
institutions of zakat and waqf can be revitalized by developing alternative workablemodels.
(c) will also seek contributions that discuss how the social objectives of the Islamic
financial system can be served by integrating the traditional Islamic institutions (zakat,awqaf, and qard hassan) with microfinance to raise the earning capabilities and incomes
levels of the poor.