The Center for Islamic Economics and Finance (CIEF) at the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University (HBKU), in collaboration with the Qatar Financial Centre (QFC) Authority, invites scholars, practitioners, policymakers, regulators, development institutions, and industry leaders to submit papers for the 9th International Conference on Islamic Finance and Economy (ICIFE).
The conference, to be held in English and Arabic with live interpretation available in both languages, explores how Islamic principles, economics and finance can guide decision-making and contribute to peace-oriented development, social resilience, ethical reconstruction and responsible security in a geopolitically unstable world.
According to the organisers, conflict-affected economies often face weakened institutions, damaged infrastructure, limited access to long-term capital and urgent reconstruction needs. Islamic finance is well-positioned to offer both a normative and practical framework for protecting welfare, rebuilding productive capacity, mobilising ethical capital, and supporting recovery in times of insecurity. The conference, therefore, invites research that moves beyond permissibility and asks how Islamic economics can help build humane, resilient and peace-oriented economic systems.
A central concern of the conference is to avoid normalising destruction or treating war as an engine of growth. Instead, ICIFE 2026 encourages critical reflection on how Islamic finance and economics can support human protection, responsible public finance, livelihood restoration, institutional rebuilding, and sustainable peace.
Conference objectives include:
- Develop Islamic economic and financial frameworks for peace, resilience, reconstruction, and responsible security.
- Examine how Maqasid al-Shariah, Adamiyyah, and Islamic jurisprudence on war and peace can guide ethics in conflict-affected contexts.
- Analyse the impact of geopolitical risk on Muslim-majority economies, Islamic banking, Sukuk markets, capital flows, sovereign finance, trade, food security, energy markets, and monetary stability.
- Explore the role of Islamic social finance, Sukuk, blended finance, capital market instruments, and development finance in rebuilding livelihoods, institutions, infrastructure.
- Clarify the ethical boundaries of finance in relation to public security, strategic industries, defense sectors , humanitarian protection, and post-conflict recovery.
- Assess how emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, drones, surveillance, fintech, and digital infrastructure, are reshaping war, security, reconstruction, and financial ethics.
- Connect Islamic finance with Conscious Economics, Conscious Futures, foresight, scenario planning, anticipatory governance, social trust, human dignity, and resilience.
- Advance policy dialogue on peace-oriented and humane financial systems.