International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: Volume 7 Issue 2

Ownership structure and financial performance in Islamic banks: Does bank ownership matter?

Sarra Ben Slama Zouari, Neila Boulila Taktak

This study aims to investigate empirically the relationship between ownership structure (concentration and mix) and Islamic bank performance, with a special attention to the…

The roles of domestic and foreign Islamic banks in Malaysian monetary transmission

Fidlizan Muhammad, Asmak Ab Rahman, Ahmad Azam Sulaiman

– The aim of this paper is to empirically test the presence of the bank lending channel for the Islamic banking system in Malaysia.

Islamic bank rent: A case study of Islamic banking in Bangladesh

Yasushi Suzuki, S.M. Sohrab Uddin

This paper aims to draw on the bank rent approach to evaluate the existing pattern of financing of Islamic banks and to propose a fairly new conceptualization of Islamic bank…

Shari’ah compliance in Islamic banking: An empirical study on selected Islamic banks in Bangladesh

Hafij Ullah

– The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the Shari’ah compliance status of the Islamic banks in Bangladesh.

The “knowledge economy”–finance nexus in SSA and MENA countries

Simplice A. Asongu

This paper aims to assess dynamics of the knowledge economy (KE)–finance nexus using the four variables identified under the World Bank’s (WB’s) Knowledge Economy Index (KEI) and…

Examining the relationship between branding and customers’ attitudes toward banking services: Empirical evidence from Iran

Mohammad Reza Jalilvand, Arash Shahin, Leila Nasrolahi Vosta

This study aims to integrate consumer-based brand equity for a tourism destination (CBBETD) and the theory of planned behavior (TPB) to examine the relationship between branding…

The Islamic work ethic among employees in Egypt

Ghada A. El-Kot, Ronald J. Burke

This study aims to examine the relationship of the Islamic work ethic (IWE) and individualism among a large sample of supervisors working in Egypt, replicating earlier work by Ali…

Editor’s notes

M. Kabir Hassan