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APPENDIX TO CHAPTER 4
FUNDAMENTAL DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
ISLAMIC AND TRADITIONAL FINANCING PARADIGMS
FOUNDATIONS
The Islamic Paradigm: Financial intermediation is aimed at addressing concerns
of depositors and meeting needs of end-users of funds in the framework of
permissible forms of transactions in the Shari* ah.
The Traditional Paradigm: Financial intermediation is carried out on the basis of
(interest-based) lender-borrower relationships between depositors and banks on one
hand and banks and end-users of funds on the other.
ROLE FUNCTIONS OF PLAYERS ON FINANCIAL SCENE
Islamic Traditional
Set-up Set-up
(i) Lenders Lenders
(i) Partners
Economic Agents Financiers
(Sellers, Buyers, (Lenders)
Lessors, Partners)
GUIDE TO DIAGRAMMATIC ILLUSTRATIONS
@ = Financial flows
Return financial flows
Real flows (goods/usufruct/services), —————-—
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