This study aims to analyze and investigates the factors influencing returns of Islamic and conventional mutual funds in Pakistan. More specifically this study aims to investigate whether macroeconomic and systematic factors affect Shariah compliant Equity, Income and assets allocation mutual...

This study explores the calculation and application mechanism of weightages in profit distribution by Islamic Banks and Windows in Pakistan to identify the factors, which determines the said weightage. Quasi experiments as well as regression analysis are carried out on the three months data of...

This study aims to analyze and investigates the factors influencing returns of Islamic and conventional mutual funds in Pakistan. More specifically this study aims to investigate whether macroeconomic and systematic factors affect Shariah compliant Equity, Income and assets allocation mutual...

This study aims to analyze and investigates the differences in performance of Islamic and conventional mutual funds in three periods, namely the period during the financial crisis period, dated 2008 to 2009, after crises period 2010 to 2017, and the whole period, dated from 2007 to 2017. More...

This study aims to analyze and investigates the differences in performance of Islamic and conventional mutual funds in three periods, namely the period during the financial crisis period, dated 2008 to 2009, after crises period 2010 to 2017, and the whole period, dated from 2007 to 2017. More...

The article discusses the components distressing the credit risk faced by banking institutions and systematically recognizes key factors affecting credit risk formation in Islamic banking operations in Pakistan. Moreover, this study compares these factors in Islamic and conventional banking....

This paper aims to investigate how credit risk, liquidity risk, capital adequacy ratio, and audit quality affect a bank's stability both separately and in combination, and then compare the resulting banking stability between Islamic and commercial banks in Pakistan, while also taking into...

The study of Islamic Finance/Banking as per the Shari’ah guidelines in the wake of the phenomenal growth of Islamic banking since 1970 is a favorite topic of the scholars who are working on the subject. Another important area of interest of the researcher is whether the IBS full fill its...

Shari’a scholars and managers of IFIs have divergent objectives, which creates incongruence of objectives at the strategic level. This study aims to explore the tension and latent struggle for Shari’a compliance, which has been termed as ‘Fatwa Repositioning’ by Ullah et. al. (2018)....

Background: Saving and investment are two of the most important tools for economic growth. The interest rate has always been considered an important determinant of saving and investment. However, according to Islamic teachings, riba or earning interest on saving or investment is forbidden, and...