Articles by Azim

On money, monetary systems,
and the architecture of justice.

Economics, Islamic finance, monetary architecture, and first-principles thinking about how money should work.

Economics · 11min · Featured

When Money Goes Digital, What Rights Should Travel With It?

Cash proved a payment without ever proving who you were. As money becomes an entry on somebody else's machine, the question is what an institution should be permitted to do merely because it keeps the ledger.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-08-14
Economics · 20 min

Equity Without Illusion

Equal Beginnings, Honest Flows, and the Safety Net That Preserves Human Dignity

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-04-26
Economics · 7 min

America's Debt Is Not a Bug, It Is the System Working as Designed

A response to Aijaz Bashir Lone's analysis of America's $39 trillion debt crisis. The root cause is not institutional, it is arithmetic. And Islamic economic principles, while directionally correct, require structural architecture to move from aspiration to implementation.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-04-23
Economics · 21 min

The Reckoning of Privilege

Why the Global North Must Come to Terms with the Debt of Its Own Making

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-04-22
Economics · 20 min

The Great Liberation

A Population-Weighted Monetary Genesis as the Foundation of Global South Sovereignty

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-04-19
Islamic Finance · 5 min

Introducing Mizan: An Islamic Finance Diagnostic Built on First Principles

A free, open diagnostic tool that evaluates any financial arrangement against Riba, Qard, Dayn, and Bay'. Not a Fatwa. Not a compliance checklist. A set of questions derived from primary sources.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-04-06
Islamic Finance · 4 min

From Gold to Paper: Riba, Fiat Currency, and the Question Nobody Wants to Ask

A root-level linguistic and juridical investigation into the prohibition of Riba in Islam, the nature of Qard, Dayn, and Bay', and whether fiat currency even qualifies as a Ribawi medium. 119 pages. Primary sources only.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-04-01
Unfiltered · 4 min

"Allah" Is Not God

You would never translate "Muhammad" into "The Praised One" and call him that instead. So why do we keep translating "Allah" into "God"? This is not a trivial matter of linguistics. This is a matter of Tawhid.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-02-22
Education · 6 min

Rethinking Assessment: From Student Measurement to Systemic Reflection

Is assessment merely a mirror held up to the learner, or is it a diagnostic instrument for the entire educational ecosystem? When we confine assessment to student performance alone, we mistake the symptom for the cause.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-02-15
Islamic Finance · 23 min

The Authenticity Crisis in Islamic Finance

A critical examination of risk-sharing, profit calculation, and the 'debt merchant' paradox in modern Islamic Financial Institutions. A Socratic inquiry into the gap between Shariah theory and banking practice.

M Azim Abdul Majeed · 2026-02-01
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