Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool

In practice, most zakat organizations in Malaysia use the monetary approach in measuring poverty through the conventional Poverty Line Income (PLI) method, and recently the had al kifayah (HAK) approach was adopted by zakat institutions. The main aim of the present study is to present a multidimensi...

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Main Author: Abdul Rasool, Mohamed Saladin
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2016
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spelling uitm-197152018-06-07T06:15:12Z http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19715/ Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool Abdul Rasool, Mohamed Saladin Malaysia In practice, most zakat organizations in Malaysia use the monetary approach in measuring poverty through the conventional Poverty Line Income (PLI) method, and recently the had al kifayah (HAK) approach was adopted by zakat institutions. The main aim of the present study is to present a multidimensional poverty measurement from an Islamic perspective as an alternative to the current monetary measurement. The study proposes an Islamic Poverty Index (IPI) which consists of non-monetary indicators comprising of maqasid-al shariah (objective of religion) elements, namely, religion, knowledge, physical self, offspring and wealth. The respondents of this cross-sectional study were recipients of zakat aid from Selangor Zakat Board (LZS), which has the highest zakat collection in Malaysia. The two main phases involved in the study are the development of a questionnaire as the research instrument and the data collection stage. An expert review was conducted to develop the questionnaire and the data collection was carried out through a survey aided by a structured questionnaire on selected heads of poor households using the proportionate sampling method in the state of Selangor, the most populated state (with the highest number of Muslims) in Malaysia… Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM 2016 Book Section PeerReviewed text en http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19715/1/ABS_MOHAMED%20SALADIN%20ABDUL%20RASOOL%20TDRA%20VOL%209%20IGS%2016.pdf Abdul Rasool, Mohamed Saladin (2016) Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool. In: The Doctoral Research Abstracts. IGS Biannual Publication, 9 (9). Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM, Shah Alam.
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Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool
description In practice, most zakat organizations in Malaysia use the monetary approach in measuring poverty through the conventional Poverty Line Income (PLI) method, and recently the had al kifayah (HAK) approach was adopted by zakat institutions. The main aim of the present study is to present a multidimensional poverty measurement from an Islamic perspective as an alternative to the current monetary measurement. The study proposes an Islamic Poverty Index (IPI) which consists of non-monetary indicators comprising of maqasid-al shariah (objective of religion) elements, namely, religion, knowledge, physical self, offspring and wealth. The respondents of this cross-sectional study were recipients of zakat aid from Selangor Zakat Board (LZS), which has the highest zakat collection in Malaysia. The two main phases involved in the study are the development of a questionnaire as the research instrument and the data collection stage. An expert review was conducted to develop the questionnaire and the data collection was carried out through a survey aided by a structured questionnaire on selected heads of poor households using the proportionate sampling method in the state of Selangor, the most populated state (with the highest number of Muslims) in Malaysia…
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author Abdul Rasool, Mohamed Saladin
author_facet Abdul Rasool, Mohamed Saladin
author_sort Abdul Rasool, Mohamed Saladin
title Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool
title_short Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool
title_full Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool
title_fullStr Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool
title_full_unstemmed Proposing a non-monetary Islamic index for poverty measurement at Lembaga Zakat Selangor (LZS), Malaysia / Mohamed Saladin Abdul Rasool
title_sort proposing a non-monetary islamic index for poverty measurement at lembaga zakat selangor (lzs), malaysia / mohamed saladin abdul rasool
publisher Institute of Graduate Studies, UiTM
publishDate 2016
url http://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/19715/
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