International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: Volume 8 Issue 4

The role of human capital in economic development of the earliest Islamic period

Seyed Kazem Sadr

The purpose of this paper is to provide explanation for the economic development of the earliest Islamic state. It focuses on the role of human capital as the most important…

Al-Muqassah model: An alternative Shariah-compliant Islamic credit card model for Islamic financial institutions in Malaysia

Muhammad Bilal, Ahamed Kameel Mydin Meera

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new Islamic credit card model that is in line with Shariah principles and can be adopted as an alternative to contemporary Islamic credit…

Attitudes of Libyan retail consumers toward Islamic methods of finance

Alsadek Gait, Andrew C. Worthington

– This paper aims to analyse the attitudes of Libyan retail customers to Islamic methods of finance.

The need for Shariah harmonization in financial reporting standardization: The case of Indonesia

Murniati Mukhlisin, Mohammad Hudaib, Toseef Azid

This study aims to analyze IFIs’ stakeholders’ perception on Shariah harmonization for financial reporting standards inIndonesia as a part of the development effort of linking the…

Banks’ stability-efficiency within dual banking system: a stochastic frontier analysis

Salma Louati, Younes Boujelbene

The purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the market power and the efficiency-stability of Islamic and conventional banks in the MENA zone and South East Asia during the…

Islamic social business for sustainable development and subjective wellbeing

Necati Aydin

The purpose of this paper is to report that the social business model has emerged to mitigate the failure of free-market capitalism driven by self-interest in creating social…

Productivity of MENA Islamic banks: a bootstrapped Malmquist index approach

Raéf Bahrini

– The purpose of this paper is to analyze the total factor productivity (TFP)[1] change and to investigate its determinants in the case of MENA Islamic banks.