Purpose: The purpose of this study is to examine the academic polemics, stakeholder perceptions and publishing prospects for Islamic economics and finance (IEF) research. Design/methodology/approach: This study adopts both quantitative and qualitative methods with a view to understanding the...

Purpose: This paper aims to assess the application of seven statistical and data mining techniques to second-stage data envelopment analysis (DEA) for bank performance. Design/methodology/approach: Different statistical and data mining techniques are used to second-stage DEA for bank...

Purpose: In societies with strong presence of Islam, Islamic instruments with more scope for fairness and equity can be innovatively harnessed to play an increasing role in the development process and poverty alleviation schemes. Poor smallholder farmers dominate agricultural production in many...

Purpose: This study aims at product development in Syariah banking, using the theory of Pyramid of Maslahah. Product development are important aspects of Islamic banking to realize Maqasid Al Shariah and to better serve the real economy. Design/methodology/approach: To understand the needs of...

Purpose: This study aims to determine the factors that influence the decisions of Muslims in Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim country and recently acknowledged as the world’s most generous country (CAF, 2017), to donate money through mosques. Design/methodology/approach: This study...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship between investors’ demographic characteristics (age, gender, education level and experience) and their investment decisions through behavioral factors (sentiment, overconfidence, overreaction and underreaction and herd behavior) as...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to formulate a model for waqf financing of public goods and mixed public goods in Malaysia which constitute the country’s federal government expenditures. The model is built on the basis of understanding the concept of waqf, learning from waqf...

Purpose: This paper aims to examine the determinants of growth rate in Islamic banking using annual time series data. Design/methodology/approach: The author applied several econometrics methods including generalized linear model and survey-based indicators. The author uses the World Bank...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to critically study the application of beneficial ownership in sukuk ijarah by analysing the fiqh interpretation on the concept of beneficial ownership. Design/methodology/approach: This is a theoretical paper using content analysis approach that delves...

Purpose: The aim of this paper is to study the current status and development ofwaqflands in Malaysia, specifically in the state of Selangor, Malaysia and propose a new model for categorisation of itswaqflands. Previous studies onwaqflands and allocation of financial resources on these lands...