Ijara is a town and Sub-County in

Garissa County Garissa County is an administrative county in Kenya. Its capital and largest urban area is Garissa. The county had a population of 841,353 at the 2019 Census, and a land area of about .2019 Kenya Population and Housing Census, Volume 2. Demog ...

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. It was previously capital of the former

Ijara District Ijara was a former administrative Districts of Kenya, district in the North Eastern Province (Kenya), North Eastern Province of Kenya. On May 20, 2000, it was carved out from the larger Garissa District. It covered an area of 11,332 km2 and, ac ...

. It is located 100 km north of

Lamu Lamu or Lamu Town is a small town on Lamu Island, which in turn is a part of the Lamu Archipelago in Kenya. Situated by road northeast of Mombasa that ends at Mokowe Jetty, from where the sea channel has to be crossed to reach Lamu Island. ...

and 180 km south of

Garissa Garissa ( so, Gaarrisa) is the capital of Garissa County, Kenya. It is situated in the former North Eastern Province. Geography The Tana River, which rises in Mount Kenya east of Nyeri, flows through the Garissa. The Bour-Algi Giraffe Sanctuar ...

Alternate meanings

''Ijara'' means rent in Arabic. Ijara (or ''

Ijarah ''Ijarah'', ( ar, الإجارة , al-Ijārah, "to give something on rent" or "providing services and goods temporarily for a wage" Jamaldeen, ''Islamic Finance For Dummies'', 2012:157 (a noun, not a verb)), is a term of ''fiqh'' (Islamic jurispr ...

'') is also a

sharia Sharia (; ar, شريعة, sharīʿa ) is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition. It is derived from the religious precepts of Islam and is based on the sacred scriptures of Islam, particularly the Quran and the H ...

-compliant form of mortgage similar to conventional

rent-to-own Rent-to-own, also known as rental purchase or rent-to-buy, is a type of legally documented transaction under which tangible property, such as furniture, consumer electronics, motor vehicles, home appliances, real property, and engagement rin ...

. The process is also known as ''Ijara wa Iqtina'', or rent with acquisition.

References

Garissa County Populated places in North Eastern Province (Kenya) {{NorthEasternKE-geo-stub