International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: Volume 14 Issue 2

Index for measuring convergence between objectives and practice of Islamic banking

Zahid Siddique

Islamic banking was developed to serve two objectives: to replace interest-based loan system with profit and loss sharing investment modes and to promote equity in resource…

Middle-income customers and their perception of Islamic banking in Sylhet: one of Bangladesh’s most pious cities

Md. Mizanur Rahman, Mohammad Ashraful Ferdous Chowdhury, Md. Mahmudul Haque, Mamunur Rashid

Owing to religious and economic preferences in Muslim-dominated countries, middle-income customers are at the heart of banks’ strategic targeting. This study aims to investigate…

Predictors of Islamic bank adoption: Nigerian perspective

Precious Chikezie Ezeh, Anayo Nkamnebe

The 2008 financial crisis that hit conventional banks provides a market opportunity for special types of banks. Furthermore, given the current financial reform for financial…

Determinants of capital structure of banks: evidence from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Shoaib Khan, Usman Bashir, Md. Saiful Islam

The purpose of this study is to investigate the most important factors that affect the capital structure of commercial banks in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

The economic reality of Islamic banks’ transactions: a qualitative inquiry

Bassam Mohammad Maali, Usama Adnan Fendi, Muhannad Ahmad Atmeh

This paper aims to investigate the economic substance of Islamic banks’ transaction as perceived by the employees and regulators of banks and the effect of such substance on the…

Measuring ethical judgement on ethical choice in an ethical system: a confirmatory study on Islamic banks in UAE

Shinaj Valangattil Shamsudheen, Saiful Azhar Rosly

This paper aims to examine the influence of ethical judgement on decision-making behaviour related to ethical issues of Islamic banking practitioners in the United Arab Emirates…

The just economic system: a model and its simulations

Hakan Saribas, İbrahim Güran Yumuşak

Macro models are being developed in Islamic economics literature. These models, in general, follow the program of Islamization of knowledge and combine the genuine characteristics…

Influential and intellectual structure of Islamic finance: a bibliometric review

Muneer M. Alshater, M. Kabir Hassan, Ashraf Khan, Irum Saba

Islamic finance is an alternative approach of financial intermediation based on risk-sharing and asset-backed operations, which evolved substantially in recent years in academic…

Developing and validating the components of Maqasid al-Shari’ah-based performance measurement model for Islamic banks

Kazi Md Tarique, Rafikul Islam, Mustafa Omar Mohammed

The purpose of this paper is to develop and subsequently validate a Maqasid al-Shari’ah-based performance evaluation model for Islamic banks.

The role of real estate and gold as inflation hedges: the Islamic influence

Osman Gulseven, Ozgun Ekici

This paper aims to understand how aversion to interest income in Islam may influence the demand for real estate and gold when inflation is rampant.

Funding higher education through waqf: a lesson from Pakistan

Muhammad Usman, Asmak Ab Rahman

This paper aims to study waqf practice in Pakistan with regard to its utilisation in funding for higher educational institutions (HEIs) and investigates waqf raising, waqf…