Liquidity Management in Islamic Banking

Nowadays banks, as the largest financial intermediaries, have a crucial role in providing enterprises with the funds which they need. To perform their role better, these financial institutions face with serious challenges in liquidity management. Because many means of liquidity management are usurious, Islamic banks are challenged more seriously than conventional banks, and are seeking alternative methods and techniques. Muslim thinkers have, for some time, recognized the problem and tried to design means which are compatible with basic fundamentals of Islamic jurisprudence, and efficient in liquidity management. Present paper, using a descriptive method, seeks to find answers to the following questions: what are the techniques to manage liquidity in Islamic banking? Can we provide a package of means compatible with needs categorization to manage liquidity in Islamic banking compatible with needs categorization? This inquiry not only introduces some new means to manage liquidity, but also provides a package of means compatible with categorization of liquidity needs in Islamic banking.