Murabaḥah, murabaḥa or murâbaḥah (Arabic مرابحة) is an Islamic term for a sale where the buyer and seller agree on the markup for the item(s) being sold. In recent decades it has become a term for "the most prevalent financing mechanism" in Islamic (i.e. "shariah compliant") finance, based on murabaḥa purchases. As an Islamic financing structure, the seller is the "lender", typically selling something the borrowing person or company needs for their business.