The article focuses on Islamic bonds and debt securitiesand examines specific issues in Islamic debt securitization. Other areas of securitization are discussed briefly to provide an overall picture of the topic. The article also investigates the potential bridging and extension of the concept...

In Malaysia, Shar¥cah scholars at the supervisory levels have advocated bayc al-c¥nah as a mode of finance. Under the label of al-bayc, the contract of al-bayc al-c¥nah contains interest-bearing features, such as earning a contractual return without the implication of risk and value-addition....

Early writings in Islamic economics depicted a grand and, some would say, utopian image of the type of societal development that would result from implementing Islamic social and economic theory. However, despite the emergence of Islamic economics in a modern sense in the 1960s, we now find that...

One of the latest innovative products of Islamic banks is the Islamic hirepurchase facility or Al-IjOErah Thumma al-Bayc (AITAB) which is designed to meet the current demand and avoid certain risks in the financing of consumer durables and motor vehicles. AITAB can be utilized to finance a wide...

This paper will argue that replacing ribOE with al-bayc does not mean that the latter can imply any form of sale (al-bayc) to justify Islamic legitimacy. Apart from the prohibition of uncertainties (gharOEr) in sale, the requirement of an equivalent countervalue (ciwaè) must also be met. Risk...

This paper addresses the issues of financial performance measurement and proposes the need for a profit sharing distribution policy of Islamic financial institutions. A conceptual analysis of the integral concepts of performance measurement, such as income, capital and cost of funds, is done in...