Read educational articles, market insights, and Sharia-focused research designed for Muslim crypto investors using the CoinStudy Halal Crypto Standard (HCS) framework.
CoinStudy's Shariah Board Chairman Dr. Usman Quddus, PhD in Islamic Studies and Finance, argues that politics and nationalism are both prisoners of economic power. The digital revolution is moving economic dynamics from centralized to decentralized. The coin and tokenized system will change the capitalist order. Muslim communities cannot remain distant.
CoinStudy's Shariah Board Chairman Dr. Usman Quddus, PhD in Islamic Studies and Finance, has written a foundational scholarly essay on the purposes of currency in Islamic jurisprudence and where digital currency stands. This is not a ruling on a specific coin. It is the jurisprudential framework underlying every ruling on every coin.
CoinStudy ranks the top 10 halal cryptocurrencies in 2026 by HCS score, the only list backed by a named PhD Islamic finance scholar. Bitcoin leads at 95/100, followed by XDC Network and Kaspa at 90/100. Every coin has passed five Sharia red-line checks and been scored across seven Islamic finance principles. Unlike competitor lists that recommend coins without methodology.
CoinStudy's Shariah Board Chairman Dr. Usman Quddus has provided a formal scholarly rebuttal of Mufti Taqi Usmani's specific argument that cryptocurrency is not mal. The chairman demonstrates that fiat currencies in modern banking are also digital ledger entries yet accepted as mal, that the Grand Mufti's argument is internally inconsistent within his own system of thought.
Mufti Taqi Usmani's fatwa that crypto is haram shook the Muslim investor community. CoinStudy's Shariah Board Chairman Dr. Usman Quddus responds with a comprehensive scholarly analysis of the classical fiqhi definition of mal across all four schools, the contemporary application of those principles by Dr. Al-Qaradaghi at the International Union of Muslim Scholars.
Yield farming cannot receive one universal Islamic finance ruling. Shariah Board Chairman's direct rulings to every yield farming category. Lending-based farming is Haram. Automated vaults are Haram. Leveraged loops are Haram. Only pure fee-based liquidity provision in permissible asset pairs passes the chairman's two-condition LP test. Complete analysis inside.
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