Purpose: This paper aims to document the impact of Ramadan on the optimism of analysts’ recommendations taking as a sample the countries of the MENA region during the period between 2004 and 2015. The choice of these countries can be explained by the fact that their population is...

Purpose: This paper aims to use a theoretical model based on the theory of reasoned actions to investigate the effects of attitude, religious motivation, awareness and service and pricing on the intention to use Islamic banking among the Muslim minority in Spain. It also aims to determine the...

Purpose: This paper aims to investigate the relationship between investors’ demographic characteristics (age, gender, education level and experience) and their investment decisions through behavioral factors (sentiment, overconfidence, overreaction and underreaction and herd behavior) as...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to study whether the characteristics of theShariahSupervisory Board (SSB) can influence the risk-taking behaviors of Islamic banks. Design/methodology/approach: The data on governance were collected from 70 Islamic banks’ annual reports across 18...

Purpose: Islamic finance is an alternative approach of financial intermediation based on risk-sharing and asset-backed operations, which evolved substantially in recent years in academic research raising the need for quantitative studies to address the intellectual development and scientific...

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to develop and thereafter validate a Sharīʿah-based FinTech Money Creation Free [SFMCF] model for Islamic banking. Design/methodology/approach: The study has adopted a qualitative research methodology, using three approaches, namely, a survey of the...

Purpose: This paper aims to explore the role of digital financial inclusion (DFI) in stabilizing the Islamic banking sector amidst the current COVID-19 pandemic. Design/methodology/approach: This study has used the Panel-Corrected Standard Errors (PCSE), Two-Stage Panel Least...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate technical and scales efficiencies of MFIs in Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in provision of financial services. This study also aims at tracing the source of inefficiencies. Design/methodology/approach – This paper uses the...

Purpose – The main purpose of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of musharakah mutanaqisah (MM; diminishing partnership) technique and its potentials for Islamic financial institutions. Design/methodology/approach – Based on an extensive literature review, this paper aims to...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to critically review some of the existing literature relevant to Saudi Arabia's quest for development in order to build the argument for the viability of entrepreneurship to Saudi Arabia's development process. Design/methodology/approach – The method...