International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management
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Islamic approach to corporate social responsibility: an international model for Islamic banks
Aida Hanic, Edib SmoloThis study aims to present a corporate social responsibility (CSR) model that would apply to Islamic banks, considering the international aspect of social responsibility…
The intention of small and medium enterprises' owners to participate in waqf: the case of Malaysia and Indonesia
Nisful Laila, Ririn Tri Ratnasari, Shafinar Ismail, Putri Aliah Mohd Hidzir, Mohd Halim MahphothThe purpose of this study is to assess small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) owners’ intentions to participate in waqf, involving two countries, which are Malaysia and…
Capital structure dynamics of Shariah-compliant vs noncompliant firms: evidence from Pakistan
Saeed Akbar, Shehzad Khan, Zahoor Ul Haq, Muhammad Ibrahim KhanThis study aims to compare capital structure determinants' effect on the leverage levels of Shariah-compliant (SC) and noncompliant (NC) firms in Pakistan. This study also…
Twelve years of research in The International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: a bibliometric analysis
Wu Yihua, Fanchen Meng, Muhammad Farrukh, Ali Raza, Imtiaz AlamThis study aims to analyze the International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management (IMEFM) publication structure based on broad criteria including…
The application of hibah al-ʿumra in disbursement of family Takāful benefits: an exploratory study
Md. Habibur Rahman, Md. Faruk Abdullah, Muhammad Nazmul Hoque, Abu Umar Faruq AhmadThis study aims to investigate and propose the potential practice of hibah al-ʿumra as a Shari‘ah-compliant policy that would encompass the disbursement of death benefits…
Congruity or dispel? A segmented bibliometric analysis of Sukuk structures
Adeel Nasir, Umar Farooq, Kanwal Iqbal Khan, Ather Azim KhanThis study aims to explain the Sukuk structures individually by highlighting the key differences and commonalities in their influential aspects. It also compares the core…
The effects of foreign currency exposure and Sharī’ah-compliant status on financial hedging strategy
Ruzita Abdul-Rahim, Adilah Abd Wahab, Mohammad HudaibDrawing upon underinvestment theory and clientele effect hypothesis, this paper aims to examine the effects of foreign currency (forex) exposure and Shari’ah-compliant…
Strategies implementing cash waqf system for Baitul Maal wat Tamwil to improve its commercial and social activities
Ascarya Ascarya, Atika Rukminastiti MasrifahThis study aims to devise policies in implementing cash waqf system of Baitul Maal wat Tamwil (BMT) in Indonesia, enabling the BMT to optimize its commercial and social…
Investigating similarities between Islamic and conventional banks in GCC countries: a dynamic time warping approach
Mohamed Sadok Gassouma, Adel Benhamed, Ghassen El MontasserSeveral studies have studied the points that distinguish Islamic banks from conventional ones. The corresponding conclusions are a bit contradictory. This paper aims to…
Profit- and loss-sharing partnership: the case of the two-tier mudharaba in Islamic banking
Amine Ben Amar, AbdelKader O. El AlaouiThe purpose of this study is to understand the profit-sharing structure at equilibrium of the two-tier mudharaba contract in a pure Islamic banking system and then in a…
Evolution of trust in hawala networks – business relationships analysis from inception to maturity
Khurram Sharif, Mohd. Nishat Faisal, Norizan Kassim, Mohamed ZainTrust within hawala networks (HN) (a type of deeply embedded informal value transfer network) has been associated with minimal bureaucracy, relationship versatility and…
Ownership in Islamic banks: how home country development influences the performance of foreign Islamic banks
Andrew Tek Wei Saw, Siong Hook Law, Ribed Vianneca W. Jubilee, Seng Loong ChangThis study aims to assess the performance of domestic and foreign Islamic banks as well as the influence of foreign banks’ home country development influence on the…
Examining sustainable Shari’ah compliance under shirkah-ul-milk: does Shari’ah-compliant risk matter
Mohammad Nazim UddinShari’ah compliance has been a subject of debate to academics, Islamic scholars and practitioners since its inception in 1983. Besides a wide range of publications in…
Volatility spillover effect between Pakistan and Shanghai Stock Exchanges using copula and dynamic conditional correlation model
Fahim Afzal, Tonmoy Toufic Choudhury, Muhammad KamranBecause of the growing financial market integration, China’s stock market’s volatility spillover effect has gradually increased. Traditional strategies do not capture…
Voluntary disclosure-cost of equity nexus and the moderating role of corporate governance: evidence from an extremely politically unstable context
Muiz Abu Alia, Islam Abdeljawad, Sara Emad Jallad, Mamunur RashidHigher degree of and commitment to voluntary disclosure (VD) and corporate governance (CG) helps contain information asymmetry, leading to lower cost of equity (Ke). This…
Are Shariah-compliant firms less prone to stock price crash risk? Evidence from Malaysia
Muhammad Haseeb, Nurul Shahnaz Mahdzan, Wan Marhaini Wan AhmadThe term “Shariah compliance” states that a firm conducts business activities within the boundaries stipulated by Islamic law. The purpose of this study is to empirically…
Exploring customer engagement value from relationship benefits
Alireza Tourchian, Samad Aali, Naser Sanoubar, Alireza Bafandeh Zendeh“Relationship benefits” (RBs) is an approach in relationship marketing. The concept highlights that both customer and firm must receive benefits from the relationship to…
Islamic Finance an alternative mode for short term financing – working capital management
Umar Nawaz KayaniThis paper aims to review and compare the conventional and Islamic perspectives of working capital management (WCM) to devise the best option of financing for managing…
Risk perception and cost of capital in emerging market projects using dynamic conditional correlation model
Farman Afzal, Ayesha Shehzad, Hafiz Muhammad Rehman, Fahim Afzal, Mohammad Mushfiqul Haque MukitCost estimation is a major concern while planning projects on public–private partnership (PPP) terms in developing countries. To bridge the gap of the right approximation…
Explanation and classification of technological entrepreneurship financing policies: lessons from Iran
Mohsen MotieiAs technological entrepreneurship has distinctive characteristics and needs particular conceptualizations, it is also important to have specific theoretical developments…
An analysis of online sadaqah acceptance among university graduates in Malaysia
Hanudin AminThis study aims to examine the factors influencing online sadaqah acceptance among university graduates in Malaysia.
Factors influence intention of management of Shariah-compliant companies to participate in Islamic voluntary charity
Anwar Allah PitchayThe present study aims to focus on the management of public listed companies (PLC) in Malaysia. It aims to explore the factors that influence the behavioural intention of…
Asymmetric dependence structures and decoupling hypothesis: Islamic versus conventional equity indices with copula approach
Fatma Houidi, Siwar EllouzeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the dependence structure between the US conventional stock market and each Islamic and conventional stock market provided by the…
Determining intention to choose Islamic financial products using the attitude–social influence–self-efficacy (ASE) model: the case of Turkey
Metin Saygılı, Sedat Durmuşkaya, Nihal Sütütemiz, Ahmet Yağmur ErsoyThis study aims to analyze the effects of attitude, social influence and self-efficacy on the behavior of using Islamic financial products based on the attitude–social…
Toward the Black–Litterman with Shariah-compliant asset pricing model: a case study on the Indonesian stock market during the COVID-19 pandemic
Retno Subekti, Abdurakhman , Dedi RosadiThis research aims to demonstrate portfolio modeling, which leads to Sharia compliance in encountering crises because of COVID-19. The authors proposed modifying the…
Intellectual capital disclosure and financial performance nexus in Islamic and conventional banks in the GCC countries
Erhan Akkas, Mehmet AsutayThis paper aims to comparatively examine the impact of the intellectual capital performance on the financial performance of Islamic and conventional banks in the Gulf…
Volatility spillover effects between oil and GCC stock markets: a wavelet-based asymmetric dynamic conditional correlation approach
Ho Thuy Tien, Ngo Thai HungThis study aims to examine the spillover effects of the mean and volatility between oil prices and stock indices of six Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries (UAE…
Impact of Qard-al-Hasan (interest-free loan) program in reducing multidimensional poverty: an evidence from the southwest Bangladesh
Farah Muneer, Foyasal KhanThis paper aims to investigate the effectiveness of Qard-al-Hasan (QH) or interest-free loan in reducing multidimensional poverty through examining Fael Khair Waqf (FKW…
Corporate governance of state-owned enterprises in Iran: an exploratory pathology
Vahid Beygi, Mohammad Abooyee Ardakan, Seyyed Mohammad MoghimiDespite the rather adequate physical and human resources available to Iranian state-owned enterprises (SOEs), they have proved not only unproductive and unprofitable but…
The impact of zakat in poverty alleviation and income inequality reduction from the perspective of gender in West Java, Indonesia
Qurroh Ayuniyyah, Ataul Huq Pramanik, Norma Md Saad, Muhammad Irwan AriffinThis study aims to analyse the role of zakat in poverty alleviation and income inequality reduction based on the gender of zakat recipients.
An alternative model for Islamic venture capital firms
Oussama Gafrej, Mouna BoujelbéneThe purpose of this paper is to propose a financial instrument by combining two main contracts in Islamic finance with the aim to minimize risks involved in Islamic…
Allocation discretion, price discounts and returns in Turkish initial public offerings
Lokman TutuncuThis study aims to investigate whether underwriters exercise their allocation discretion to offer favorable discounts to institutional investors.
Human governance a pathway to integrity in counteracting corruption
Nor Azmi Ramli, Ainul Mohsein Abdul Mohsin, Arfah Salleh, Noor Shakirah Mat AkhirCorruption is a global phenomenon. The 2016 Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Report and the 2019 Malaysia National Anti-Corruption Plan (NACP…
Factors affecting sukuk market development: empirical evidence from sukuk issuing economies
Ameenullah Aman, Asmadi Mohamed Naim, Mohamad Yazid Isa, Syed Emad Azhar AliBoth developed and developing countries, Muslim and non-Muslim, have been showing keen interest in sukuk financing. This interest was because of the lesson learned by both…
The actualization of maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah in Islamic finance: a conceptual framework
Abu Talib Mohammad Monawer, Noor Naemah Abdul Rahman, Ameen Ahmed Abdullah Qasem Al-Nahari, Luqman Haji Abdullah, Abdul Karim Ali, Achour MeguellatiThis paper aims to formulate a conceptual framework that will facilitate the actualization of maqāṣid al-Sharīʿah in product design and consumption within Islamic…
Religion vs ethics: hedge and safe haven properties of Sukuk and green bonds for stock markets pre- and during COVID-19
Muhammad Abubakr Naeem, Mustafa Raza Rabbani, Sitara Karim, Syed Mabruk BillahThis study aims to examine the hedge and safe-haven properties of the Sukuk and green bond for the stock markets pre- and during the COVID-19 pandemic period.
Empathy or perceived credibility? An empirical study of Muslim donating behaviour through online charitable crowdfunding in Indonesia
Rahmatina Awaliah Kasri, Esmeralda IndrianiThis study aims to analyse the factors influencing Indonesian Muslims’ donation behaviour through online charitable donation-based crowdfunding.
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- Prof M. Kabir Hassan
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