M Azim Abdul Majeed

I study money. Not as a portfolio exercise, but as an architectural question: why modern monetary systems produce the outcomes they do, and whether better designs are possible. My work sits between the quantitative vocabulary of modern economics and the scholarly tradition of Islamic jurisprudence on exchange.

I am the designer of GX Coin Protocol, a productivity-anchored, interest-free monetary architecture built on first principles. I also created Mizan, a diagnostic framework for evaluating financial instruments against the classical ribawi characteristics derived from primary Islamic sources.

A recurring thread in my research is what I call the convergence thesis: that rigorous first-principles analysis of what sound money should look like independently arrives at conclusions identical to those Islamic economics has advocated for centuries. The overlap is not cosmetic. It is structural.

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What I write about

• / Riba, monetary architecture, and the structural mechanics of interest-based money creation.
• / Islamic finance beyond compliance: maqasid al-shari'ah, first-principles critique, and systemic reform.
• / Monetary systems, fiat currency, inflation, central banking, and the politics of monetary credibility.
• / Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain as alternative monetary rails, their strengths and structural failures.
• / First-principles economic design and the convergence between secular analysis and Islamic economic principles.

Elsewhere

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