abstract:Murabahah or murabaha (Arabic مرابحة, more accurately transliterated as murābahah) is a particular kind of sale, compliant with shariah, where the seller expressly mentions the cost he has incurred on the commodities for sale and sells it to another person by adding some profit or mark-up thereon which is known to the buyer. As the requirement includes an "honest declaration of cost", murabahah is one of three types of bayu-al-amanah (fiduciary sale).
Compare a contractum trinius to a murabaha contract, a structured financial product offered by Islamic banks as a way around the Koran's proscription of riba, or usury.
One reason for New York's low interest level: European and Asian governments have been eager to change regulations to adapt to and attract Islamic finance--for example, Britain struck down a law that double-taxed homebuyers who used a murabaha, a two-part Islamic financing structure, rather than a mortgage.