Investigating the Redistribution of Wealth within the Framework of Risk Sharing in Islamic Financial Markets

The rise of economic inequality in the world has left scholars frustrated with current explanations of inequality and, consequently, conventional solutions to reduce economic inequality. In the past few years, following the 2007 crisis, attention has been drawn to the origin of inequalities, and a shift from income inequality to inequality in wealth has occurred. This article investigates the redistribution of wealth within the framework of risk sharing in Islamic financial markets using an analytical method. According to the paper, wealth income, meaning income from property ownership, is one of the key factors in wealth inequality even in the context of optimal market prices. The two determinants of wealth are distortions and distortions of the financial system, and the institutional, regulatory, and governance determinants of financial markets. Although institutional, regulatory, and governance factors can be eliminated by regulation, distortions and disruptions in the financial system stem from the nature and properties of the risk-based financial system. The Islamic model of risk sharing in financial markets is in contrast to the pattern of usury debt and risk transfer. From this point of view, Islamic finance, by moving towards using risk-sharing tools, has provided a basis model for the radical elimination of inequality.