The proponents of Islamic finance argue that unlike conventional finance it emphasizes the real economy. Such emphasis should be reflected in the sectoral distribution in an economy. In this paper, in light of a conceptualization of the real economy, the sectoral distribution of financial...

The prohibition of riba is categorical in the Qur'an. Based on that prohibition, which is presumably further reinforced by hadith, loan or qard is considered ribawi, meaning that only gratuitous monetary loans are considered permissible in Islam. Modern Islamic banking is based on treating qard...

The study attempts to identify the determinants of lending rates in the Kingdom of Bahrain. It examines the impact of certain macroeconomic and banks’ aggregate data variables on the level of interest rates on loans charged by Bahraini conventional retail banks using quarterly data for the...