Open Access and Licensing Statement

El Barka: Journal of Islamic Economics and Business is a fully open access journal. In line with the principles of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI), all articles are freely, immediately, and permanently available online upon publication. Readers do not need to pay a subscription, pass a paywall, or register to access them.

The journal also supports the Initiative for Open Citations (I4OC). Reference lists deposited with Crossref are made openly available, so that the citation metadata of published articles can be freely discovered and reused.

License

All articles are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication.

Under this license, anyone is free to:

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Notices

The license does not apply to material in the public domain or to uses permitted under applicable exceptions or limitations. No warranties are given. The license may not grant all permissions necessary for a particular use; other rights, such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights, may also apply.

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