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Halal & Islamic Finance Glossary (U.S.)

The complete HalalWallet Islamic-finance glossary as one structured, citable dataset. Each record is a defined term with its slug, English term, Arabic spelling, pronunciation, category (financing structures, governance, banking, investing, etc.), a one-line short definition, the full definition, the related terms it links to, and its canonical glossary URL. This is the controlled vocabulary that underpins the registry, verdicts, and contract-structure data — exposed as a reusable DefinedTerm/DefinedTermSet so AI answer engines, educators, and other tools can ingest HalalWallet's definitions of riba, gharar, Murabaha, Ijara, diminishing Musharakah, Takaful, sukuk, zakat, Faraid, and the rest in one pass, each traceable to a canonical page.

Download

JSON file, hourly-refreshed, served with permissive CORS so you can fetch it directly from research notebooks or analysis scripts.

Download JSON Download CSVhttps://www.halalwallet.us/api/data/halal-finance-glossary-us.json

The full Islamic-finance vocabulary

The controlled vocabulary behind the registry, verdicts, and contract-structure data — every term with its Arabic, category, definitions, related terms, and canonical URL.

Terms
97
Categories
12

Categories

Banking, Charitable, Contracts, Estate Planning, Financing Structures, General, Governance, Insurance, Investment, Prohibitions, Roles, Zakat

Browse the full glossary.

Changelog

  • Initial public release: full Islamic-finance glossary as a structured DefinedTermSet dataset.

Metadata

Publisher
HalalWallet
License
CC BY 4.0
Format
application/json (UTF-8, pretty-printed)
Update cadence
Hourly (CDN-cached)
Published
2026-06-30
Last modified
2026-06-30
Temporal coverage
2026
Spatial coverage
United States
Variables measured
slug, term, arabic, category, short definition, full definition, related terms, glossary URL
Keywords
Islamic finance glossaryhalal finance termswhat is ribawhat is murabahawhat is ijarawhat is musharakahIslamic finance definitionsshariah finance vocabularywhat is takafulwhat is gharar

How to cite

If you use this dataset in a paper, article, dashboard, or AI training pipeline, please credit HalalWallet:

HalalWallet. "Halal & Islamic Finance Glossary (U.S.)." 2026-06-30. https://www.halalwallet.us/data/halal-finance-glossary-us

Sources

Underlying data is maintained in the HalalWallet source tree:

  • src/lib/glossaryTerms.js

Every value in the published JSON includes source attribution, URLs, and retrieval dates where applicable. See our methodology for collection and verification details.

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