International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: Volume 6 Issue 2

Islamic insurance (takaful): demand and supply in the UK

Tahani Coolen‐Maturi

This paper aims to examine empirically whether there is a real demand for takaful products among Muslims in the UK, and to assess the awareness about takaful insurance and its…

Performance evaluation of Islamic mutual funds relative to conventional funds: Empirical evidence from Saudi Arabia

Dawood Ashraf

This paper seeks to review and extend previous research on the performance of Islamic mutual funds (IMFs) by evaluating the relative performance of IMFs and conventional funds…

Sport and emerging capital markets: market reaction to the 2022 World Cup announcement

Bana Abuzayed

The purpose of this paper is to examine how the announcement of the mega sport event of the 2022 FIFA World Cup affected the stock market return and volatility for the hosting…

Performance indicators of banks in a total Islamic banking system: the case of Sudan

Abuzar M.A. Eljelly, Ahmed Abdelgadir Elobeed

The purpose of this paper is to describe the common performance traits of banks operating in a whole Islamic banking system in Sudan. Sudan is among the few economies in which a…

Analysis of Islamic banks' financing and economic growth: a panel cointegration approach

Yazdan Gudarzi Farahani, Masood Dastan

This paper seeks to use empirical evidence to examine the role of Islamic banks' financing on economic performance of selected countries (Malaysia, Indonesia, Bahrain, UAE, Saudi…

Editor’s notes

M. Kabir Hassan