Islamic finance is a close combination of
conventional finance, ethics, Islamic law, and
jurisprudence. It has developed in an unprecedented way
over the past half-century and has attracted the attention
of Western central banks. It has been adopted by several
countries, including non-Muslim countries, to deal with
the excesses of conventional finance. The difference
between Islamic banks and conventional banks lies in its
five (5) principles, namely: the prohibition of interest,
speculation, and uncertainty, the prohibition of illicit
investments, the principle of profit and loss sharing, and
the backing of a tangible asset. According to figures from
the Institut Nationale d'Etudes Démographiques (INED),
the population of the African continent is expected to
reach 3.6 billion by 2100. This finance, despite its success, so much observed on the
other surfaces of the earth, is still struggling to gain a
foothold in the world and particularly on the African
continent. This is due to the fact that it is not well known
by the public, as its concepts have Arabic names. It is in
this perspective that we propose in this paper to build an
ontology of Islamic finance. The aim of our work is to
design an ontology of Islamic finance. This ontology will
group the key concepts of Islamic finance, define the
relevant relations between them in order to popularize this
finance from a platform based on a semantic wiki.

Islamic finance, sharia, banking, Halal, Haram, riba, ontology.