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Participation banking has a history of nearly forty years in Turkey, including its predecessors, special finance houses. Despite this relatively long history, the point reached by the sector is discussed and criticized in many ways. Participation banking, known in the world as Islamic banking, is an important sub-field of Islamic finance. Interest in this has increased especially after the 2008 world financial crisis. In this context, the aim of this article is to identify today's participation banking problems in Turkey, both through the literature that has emerged with increasing interest since the aforementioned period, and through the users and employees from whom information was obtained through interviews, and to propose solutions. Therefore, the main methods of the article are literature research and e-mail interviews. Within the scope of the interviews, 23 users and 5 employees from the cities of Istanbul and Kayseri were interviewed. According to the findings obtained from the literature review, there has been no change in most of the problems expressed in the literature in the last ten years. The prominent ones are; inadequacy of ATMs and branches, lack of knowledge and belief of employees, and lack of product. In the interview study conducted on 28 people in total, the most prominent problem was the lack of knowledge and belief of the employees. The article ends with suggestions for solutions to the main problems identified. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Price uncertainty arising in the contract of sale is one of the important issues that we encounter in some current issues. Undoubtedly, one of the important factors that prompts people to make a contract with price uncertainty is the aim of preserving the value of the goods or receivables due to the weakening of purchasing power. In this context, in periods of high inflation, futures purchases have to be made without determining the price of the commodity. In this context, in our study, the type of contract made under the name of "trust" without determining a price in some regions of our country has been discussed. Fiqh evaluations are made that point to the fact that such contracts should be based on qard and salam contracts for their validity in fiqh, and that such contracts will be valid in the context of "isticrâr" in their current form. In fact, in this study, although the fiqh status of the application in terms of trust, qard and sales contract was evaluated, it was concluded that it would not be correct to accept such a contract as a trust and qard contract when the aims and intentions of the parties are clear. On the other hand, the issue has been discussed in the context of the contract of sale, and the aspects that differ from the contract type called "isticrâr" have been tried to be determined. In this respect, some suggestions have been presented in order to evaluate the application as a contract of isticrâr. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The old parts of the political economy reveal that leading figures such as Ibn Khaldun, Weber, Bacon, Hobbes, and Smith were not apostles of pure economic rationality and a materialistic mindset. While most of these thinkers plausibly endorsed "rationality" in the context of social and cultural realities, they were also aware of the systematic irrationality of cognitive biases that were later "discovered" by contemporary behavioral economists. We are trying to answer the question, "Is there a discrepancy or non-complacency in rationality understanding of economic decisions based on differing needs of economic agents from a religious perspective?". So, based on assumptions that religion, economics, and psychology are affecting each other, it is argued that a well-defined hypothesis and assumptions on the relationship between psychology and economic behaviors need to be cleared in at least three aspects: first, "identifying key factors that influence mood"; second "exploring the relationship between behavior, faith, and psychology"; and third "considering the possible effects of psychology, faith, and behaviors of different groups of people on economic decisions.” A set of reasonable suggestions for policymakers is going to be produced in this direction. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]