Doğu Tahkiminin İslami Finans Uyuşmazlıklarını İngiliz Mahkemelerinin Elinden Alma Yolundaki Süreci

Year 2019, Volume: 39 Issue: 1, 295 - 323, 26.06.2019

Berk Hasan Ozdem

Abstract

İslami finansta son yıllarda gözlenen büyüme, endüstrideki küreselleşme ile birlikte, şeriat uyumlu anlaşmalardan kaynaklanan uyuşmazlıkların uluslararası boyutta yaygınlaşması ile sonuçlanmıştır. İslami finans işlemlerinin tarafları arasında uygulanacak hukuk olarak İngiliz hukukunun seçilmesi yaygın bir uygulama olmuştur. Bu makalede, İslam hukukunun İngiliz mahkemelerinde uygulanabilirliği konusundaki sınırlamalar incelendikten sonra İslami finans uyuşmazlıklarında uygulanacak hukuk olarak İngiliz hukukunun seçilmesi pratiğine yönelen eleştiriler üzerinde yoğunlaşılmış ve sorunlarını İslam hukukuna uygun olarak çözme konusunda uzlaşan taraflar için tahkim yolunun daha avantajlı bir uyuşmazlık çözüm yöntemi sağlama konusundaki potansiyeli tartışılmıştır. Son olarak, tahkim kurumları tarafından başlatılan girişimler incelenerek, Doğu tahkiminin İslami Finans uyuşmazlıklarını İngiliz mahkemelerinin elinden alma yolundaki sürecinden ve İslami finans uyuşmazlıklarında taraflara daha iyi çözümler üretebilmek için yazarlarca ileri sürülmüş fikirlerden bahsedilmiştir. 

Keywords

Tahkim, İngiliz mahkemeleri, İslami finans, İslam hukuku, Şeriat

The Path of Eastern Arbitration to Take Islamic Finance Disputes from the Hands of English Litigation

Abstract

Over the last decades the exponential growth in Islamic finance and the globalization of the industry has resulted in the disputes amongst international entities arising out of Sharia-compliant agreements to be more commonplace. It has been a common practice amongst the parties of Islamic finance transactions to choose English law as the governing law. This paper, after examining the limitations in the applicability of Islamic law in English courts, focuses on the critics that the current practice of choosing English law as the governing law faces and discusses the potential of arbitration to provide a more advantageous dispute resolution method for the parties that agree on resolving their issues compliant with Islamic law. Finally, this paper explains the adventure of Eastern arbitration to take Islamic Finance disputes from the hands of English courts by examining the initiatives taken by the arbitral institutions so far, as well as the ideas that came from scholars to create better solutions for the parties of Islamic finance transactions in their disputes. 

Keywords

Arbitration, English courts, Islamic finance, Islamic law, Sharia

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