This paper examines the current practices of contemporary Islamic banks in sources and uses of funds. It investigates how Islamic financing techniques are used by various Islamic banking institutions in different countries. The study also takes note of significant departures and major...

Arabic Abstract: كانت وما زالت التنمية الاقتصادية محور اهتمام الكثير من الدراسات في الاقتصاد الإسلامي. وفي حين أبرزت هذه الدراسات الطبيعة الشاملة لمفهوم التنمية من...

Each society produces a specific quantum of goods and services in order to distribute it among its members for final use. However, due to a number of reasons, the efficiency with which this can be done has varied from society to society and over time within a society. So far, an optimal system...

The past decade has witnessed significant developments in the banking structure of the Arab World. The emergence of OPEC, the increase in oil revenues and accumulation of large reserves, led not only to an overall boom of economic activity in the petroleum exporting countries but also...

Teaching economics, or for that matter, any social science, has been a perennial problem in most of developing countries, or more specifically in most of the Eastern countries. In short, it may be said that Hasan and Lehar have succeeded in producing a text book that can safely be put in the...