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Usury (/ˈjuːʒəri/) is the practice of making loans that are seen as unfairly enriching the lender. The term may be used in a moral sense—condemning taking...

within narrow limits, to avoid the lender becoming so keen on usury that they practice it against other Jews. The Shulchan Aruch, a 16th-century text...

outlawing the practice of usury. Since the time of the Norman Conquest, Jews had been filling a small but vital role in the English economy. Usury by Christians...

interest from Gentiles, who had at that time no law forbidding them from practicing usury. As Gentiles took interest from Jews, the Torah considered it equitable...

Jews may not be engaged? Is usury to their brethren forbidden by the law? Is it permitted or forbidden to practice usury with strangers? At one of the...

you shall not take usury, compounded over and over. Observe God, that you may succeed. — Al-'Imran 3:130 And for practicing usury, which was forbidden...

history, stereotypes of Jews as being connected to greed, money-lending and usury have stoked anti-Jewish sentiments and still, to a large extent, influence...

Business owners At the time, founder Raiffeisen claimed that the Jews practice usury, cheat, and are dishonest and that they control the livestock market...

Benedict XIV on November 1, 1745, which condemned the practice of charging interest on loans as usury. Because the encyclical was addressed to the bishops...

money (which was reserved to the "curator Fani", the only one who could practice usury without committing sacrilege) and to direct commerce, especially the...

law), condemns its economic practices like usury, and accuses it of moral decay due to the social acceptance of practices contrary to purported Islamic...

Treatise on Usury and his Sermon on Trade and Usury and criticized clerics of the Catholic Church for violating the spirit if not the letter of usury laws....

employment (ANSEJ) through the creation of investment banks who do not practice usury and according to the specificities of each region. In management, the...

Lord; prohibition of field work on Sundays; prohibition of clerics practicing usury; prohibition of the conjuring of priests, as a critic of their bishop...

interest, since such activities were equated with the sin of usury. Jewish law disallowed usury among Jews, but not when the borrower was Gentile. The Jewish...

continued to operate in some southern states after World War II because the usury rate was set so low that licensed personal finance companies could not do...

He then pleads with his father to quit working at the bank as it practices usury, which is against Islam. He finishes by saying, "I invite my fellows...

[ˈrɪbæː]) is an Arabic word used in Islamic law and roughly translated as "usury": unjust, exploitative gains made in trade or business. Riba is mentioned...

Aristotle) in condemning the practice of usury, which they defined as charging interest on a loan. Scholastic analysis of usury, based in part on Roman law...

the Middle Ages as a method of circumventing canonical laws prohibiting usury as a part of Christian finance. At the time, most Christian nations heavily...