Purpose - Sharīʿah Secretariat plays a significant role in assisting Sharīʿah Supervisory Boards (SSBs) in their role in achieving Sharīʿah compliance in Islamic banks (IBs). The key objective of the study is to develop a organizational framework of the Sharīʿah Secretariat for the IBs...

This article examines current legal and regulatory issues of Islamic banking in Bangladesh. The most important issue in this context is the lack of a well-defined regulatory and supervisory framework for Islamic banks for their effective functioning in line with the tenets of Shariah. Other...

Bangladesh has the third largest Muslim population in the world after Indonesia and Pakistan. Higher demand of Islamic banking products and services requires existence of superior quality in service, efficiency in system, strict compliance to Islamic Shari`ah and satisfactory community service...

Purpose - This paper analyses the CSR Role of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited targeted to contribute in the economic, social and environmental betterment of Bangladesh as well as for its citizensMethodology - For the purpose of this study, Content Analysis has been considered as the most...

External Sharī‘ah Audit (ESA) is a control mechanism meant for formulating an objective view by an independent Sharī‘ah audit team about the obligation of Islamic banks' (IBs) management, personnel and other divisions towards Sharī‘ah compliance. This study principally aims to examine...

Ever-increasing unemployment or underemployment of educated youth is taking its toll on Bangladesh as it is giving birth to new social unrest in the country. While its national average unemployment rate is 4.2 per cent, the rate is 2.7 per cent among those who have studied up to primary level...

Since the independence of Bangladesh nearly thirty years ago, the country is still going through serious instability, socio-political crisis and lack of a sense of direction. Time and again the country has shown sparks of success that are fundamentally constrained by various institutional...