Interest and interest-bearing transactions in the context of the title of the decisions and fatwas of the High Board of Religious Affairs

Interest is a treatment as old as human history and valid in all civilizations. Although interest is forbidden in the holy books, its legitimacy in philosophy, culture and ideologies is a controversial issue. While these debates, whose origins date back to antiquity, were on the morality and legitimacy of interest previously, together with the development of economic life and science of economics as an independent field of science, they have been on its definition, types, scope and evaluation of modern finance practices in terms of the prohibition of interest. In this study, it is aimed to gather the decisions, opinions and fatwas of the High Board of Religious Affairs on interest and interest-bearing transactions by identifying and describing them with categorizing. This study consists of an introduction and two chapters, and in the first chapter, the High Board of Religious Affairs is introduced with its structure, duties, history, activities and methods considered when giving fatwas. In the second chapter, the definition, types of interest and interest-bearing transactions and causes of provisions subject to interest were mentioned, and the determination and description of decisions, opinions and fatwas on interest and interest-bearing transactions are carried out.