Title Constraints on Islamic Banking Within European and Czech Legal Framework Author Hynek Mádl Keywords Islamic banking, credit, Sharī'ah board, Murabaha, Musharakah Summary Islamic banking is a sector of financial market which was formed in the 1970s and since then, it has spread outside Muslim countries too. The difference between Islamic banking and conventional banking is in the fact that all activities of Islamic banks shall be consistent with the principles of Islamic law. The submitted thesis aims to find and analyse obstacles of implementing Islamic banking, resulting from its singularities, in the European and Czech legal framework. In the introduction, the author shortly describes theoretical principles of Islamic banking and ways in which contemporary practices of Islamic banks have deviated from these principles. The next part of the thesis lays out individual characteristics of Islamic banking. Using the examples of specific finance models (especially Murabaha and Musharaka financing), these features are assessed from the viewpoint of their compliance with legal regulation of banks and their activities. The process in which a bank provides financing to its clients by acquiring and disposing assets, which such financing applies to, is considered to be the most disputable element of Islamic...

Charles University in Prague Faculty of Law Abstract of the dissertation The title of the dissertation: Sharia Law, particularly Islamic banking, in relations with international elements Author: JUDr. Ivana Hrdličková Supervisor: Prof. JUDr. Monika Pauknerová, CSc., DSc. Prague, February 2012 Key words: Islamic finance, sharia, mudaraba, musharaka, murabaha, ijara, sharia compliant, international law, choice of law, contract, riba, gharar, maisir. The dissertation, Sharia law, particularly Islamic Banking in the relations with international elements, considers an actual topic and branch of islamic law. Neither islam nor islamic law is a legal system applicable at any particular territory. However, legislation of the countries with majority of muslim population, is based, more or less, on islamic law. Whereas due to migration and globalization, islamic law unavoidably interferes in international law. The legal regulation of international private law under the terms stipulated by the law leads to the use of foreign law. One can thus meet the legislation based on islamic law, including in the field of contract law. In commercial contracts, where the one side is from countries where islamic law is a source of legislation, may be the choice of law (in accordance with article 3 of Rome I), which form's the basis...