 Partnership-based equity instruments. Chapter 7 in Religion and Finance, 2019, pp 143-166 from Edward Elgar Publishing Abstract: Partnerships are non-interest financial arrangements employed extensively in Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The concept of partnership is different from pure lending, where the lender gets a guaranteed return regardless of the economic outcome of the venture financed. A partnership allows the transferring of funds from financier to an entrepreneur while ensuring participation of both the parties, if not necessarily in the management, then in the process of the sharing of risks and profits and losses. In addition, it develops a spirit of cooperation, group decision-making and the idea of brotherhood. Religious teaching contributes by providing guidance and rules based on equal opportunity, justice and societal development, governing equity participation and profit and loss sharing proportions. Jewish rabbis developed laws for iska and hetter iska. Under Christianity commenda evolved via societas and carati into the modern corporate form. Islamic jurists fashioned conditions and rules for mudaraba and musharaka. However, in the Muslim world partnerships did not evolve into corporations, as in the West. Keywords: Asian Studies; Economics and Finance; Law - Academic (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:elg:eechap:14654_7 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in Chapters from Edward Elgar Publishing |
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