Purpose – This paper aims to compute the Malmquist Index of Islamic and conventional banks to compare their performance in the sample period of 2005-2009. Islamic banks have been showing tremendous growth throughout the world in recent past. Their progress is exceptional in Islamic countries...

This paper seeks to provide a framework for addressing supervisory issues which impact operations and institutional development of Islamic banks. We argue against universal supervision or creating separate specialized supervisions, the approach in this paper uses the risk based supervisory...

The current evaluation of Islamic Banks performance uses the conventional measurs, which is not unacceptable as the current Islamic Banks’ structure is mainly equal of its conventional counterparts in the sense that they are developed in the frame of business entity, thus businessbased...

This study tries to measure the effect of risk sharing in adding value to Islamic banks. In particular, this study is important to accurately gauging the impact of Islamic banking sector on the real economy. The adoption of risk sharing modes of contracts by Islamic bank as intermediary would...