Every excerpt held here
Each entry opens on its own page with the excerpt, a link to the original video at its timestamp, and whether the transcript was auto-generated or corrected by hand.
23 entries
Stability and Sustainability of Islamic Finance | Dr Monzer Kahf (Islamic Economist)
Documented positionDr Monzer Kahf
ribaislamic-finance
The Trouble with Riba (interest) explained | Almir Colan
Documented positionAlmir Colan
ribaislamic-finance
The prohibition of riba | Isha Khatirah | Sh. Yaser Birjas
Documented positionSheikh Yaser Birjas
ribaislamic-financekhatirah
Khutbah: The Dangers of Usury (Riba) and the Importance of Avoiding It
Documented positionImam Ali Jomha
ribausurykhutbahreminder
The Harmful Effects of Riba on Human Society (Islamic Finance Series)
Documented positionShaykh Hamza Yusuf
ribainterestislamic-financeeconomicssociety
War on RIBA, Building Wealth and Halal Mortgages
Documented positionSheikh Dr. Sajid Umar
ribainterestislamic-financemortgageswealth
Debt and Riba (Interest) Khutbah
Documented positionAbu Ibraheem Hussnayn
ribainterestdebtkhutbah
Islamic Financial Success - God's Formula to Wealth Most People Miss
Documented positionSheikh Navaid Aziz
ribainterestislamic-financedebt
Q&A: Conventional Mortgage vs Islamic Mortgage
Documented positionMufti Abdur-Rahman ibn Yusuf Mangera
ribainterestmortgagehome-financeislamic-finance
The System of Trade vs The System of Riba
Documented positionMufti Faraz Adam
ribainteresttradeislamic-financeeconomics
Interest and Islamic Banking - Bilal Philips
Documented positionDr. Abu Ameenah Bilal Philips
ribainterestislamic-bankingislamic-finance
Life without interest
Documented positionSheikh Dr Haitham al-Haddad
ribainterestislamic-finance
Riba - Pathway to Hell?
Documented positionDr. Omar Suleiman
ribainterestreminderlecture
The Problem With Interest - Joe Bradford #InsideMyLibrary Book Review
Documented positionShaykh Joe Bradford
ribainterestislamic-financebook-review
A lecture by Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani regarding "The Concept of Islamic Finance"
Documented positionMufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
islamic-financeribaconceptlecture
Islamic bank giving fixed % on capital / profit (Riba?)
Documented positionSheikh Assim al-Hakeem
ribaislamic-financebankingfatwa
Islamic Finance | Shaykh al-Islam Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
Documented positionMufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
islamic-financeribaprincipleslecture
Islamic Finance Q&A | Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi and Dr. Main AlQudah Q&A | Epic Masjid
Documented positionDr. Yasir Qadhi & Dr. Main AlQudah
islamic-financeribaqafiqh
Justice (R) Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani answers question about Islamic Banking
Documented positionMufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
islamic-financebankingshariah-complianceqa
Library Chat #23: What Every Muslim Needs to Know About Ribā | Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi & Dr. Fadel
Documented positionDr. Yasir Qadhi (with Dr. Mohammad Fadel)
ribaislamic-financefiqhdiscussion
Mufti Taqi Usmani - Riba Free Banking
Documented positionMufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani
islamic-financeribabankinglecture
RIBA! INTEREST! - Mufti Menk
Documented positionMufti Ismail Menk
ribainterestreminderlecture
The Parables of the Quran #11 | The Example of the One Who Consumes Riba | Shaykh Dr. Yasir Qadhi
Documented positionDr. Yasir Qadhi
ribaquranparabletafsirlecture
Why YouTube at all
Because this is where most of the contemporary English-language fiqh actually lives now. Three reasons it matters for this project:
- Reach — NAK alone has hundreds of hours of khutbah specifically on financial matters.
- Plain language — these scholars are speaking to Western Muslims, not to other scholars. The vocabulary matches the audience.
- Time-stamping — citing a video at
12:34is verifiable in a way that paraphrasing a private conversation is not.
Channels indexed
Tier A — primary
YouTube channel
Bayyinah Institute & Nouman Ali Khan
Nouman Ali Khan
Khutbahs and tafsir lectures. Foundational for the Why section — his tafsir of al-Baqarah 2:275–281 is the single best contemporary English exposition of those verses.
YouTube channel
Mufti Menk
Mufti Ismail Menk
Concise reminders and Q&A on finance, debt, mortgages. Accessible language; broadly aligned with mainstream Hanafī positions. Useful for short, citable answers.
YouTube channel
Assim Al-Hakeem
Sheikh Assim Al-Hakeem
Q&A on practical fiqh. Salafī methodological lens — strict on contemporary Islamic banking products. Important counterweight to Hanafī-leaning permissive opinions on Murābaḥah-based mortgages.
YouTube channel
Yaqeen Institute / Yasir Qadhi
Dr. Yasir Qadhi
Long-form lectures on contemporary fiqh including Western Muslim finance. Methodologically rigorous; willing to address the hard questions head-on.
YouTube channel
Omar Suleiman
Dr. Omar Suleiman
Khutbahs framing riba and consumerism inside a broader moral framework — useful for the Why section's case beyond pure fiqh.
Tier B — supporting
YouTube channel
Joe Bradford
Joe Bradford
The single most relevant English-language voice on Western Islamic finance specifically. Direct critique of Murābaḥah mortgages, frank discussion of ḥiyal, practical guidance. The primary source for The Audit.
YouTube channel
AlMaghrib Institute
Lecture series on classical fiqh including transactions (muʿāmalāt). Lower trust here only because of volume — needs filtering for the specific lectures on riba.
Tagging schema
Each transcript chunked in the corpus carries:
scholar— exact attributionlecture_titleurl+timestamptopic— riba | mortgage | islamic_banking | partnerships | etc.madhab_lens— Hanafī | Salafī | Mālikī | comparative | nonevetted_at— date a human checked the Arabic termsconfidence— high if vetted, medium otherwise