Hedging Contracts: A Fiqhi Review

The present paper aims at studying hedging contracts in two sections, “Understanding the topic” and “jurisprudential review”. Understanding the definition and types of hedging contracts is the subject-matter of the first section. Hedging or risk coverage of contracts means a contractual or non-contractual attempt to protect the property in the investment process against risks of unexpected fluctuations in one of the three commodities: the price of goods, currency rate and interest rate, and hedging contracts are important tools which have a contractual nature and cover the risks. These contracts are option contracts, forward contracts, swap contracts, and futurescontracts, each of which has important subcategorieswith special nature and functions. In the jurisprudential review and analysis section, it is concluded that for mosthedging contractslegibility can be considered since a large number of questions and problems regarding these contracts can be answered and solved. Moreover,for some of these contracts “non-problematic jurisprudential frameworks” can be considered.