With all the talk in Europe about Islam and Muslim culture it is surprising how little hard-core empirical evidence … Islamic Conference (OIC), comprising 57 members and 3 observer states. The empirical record, presented in this essay, speaks a … clear language in favor of Islamic democracy and against those in the West that attempt to treat Islamic cultural heritage …

It has been argued that Islamic banks are more stable than Western banks in general and more particularly during the … with two Islamic ratios (Zakat and Profit and loss sharing) on the performance of Islamic banks in developing countries. By … Islamic bank performance when the legal origin, financial crisis, economic status and measurement issues of Islamic bank …

Islamic banks (IBs) have a significant role in the growth of gross domestic product of the developing countries. The … Islamic participatory schemes integrate the assets of lenders and borrowers. They allow enable IBs to lend on a longer term … the ontribution of Islamic finance in economic growth. Using a panel data-set, we compare between IBs and conventional …

system commonly used in almost all countries in the world. Islamic finance scholars contend that the crises would have been … avoided, and that will never be experienced, if the world adopted Islamic banking principles rather than clinging on to the … conventional banking systems. Since Islamic financial systems are linked to, and associated with the principles of Islamic religion …

Islamic equity indices, Dow Jones Islamic Market World Index (DJIM), are considered and the Muslim-majority status of each … homogeneous data set restricted by leverage screening rules of an Islamic equity index and recognizing the Muslim-majority status …

system commonly used in almost all countries in the world. Islamic finance scholars contend that the crises would have been … avoided, and that will never be experienced, if the world adopted Islamic banking principles rather than clinging on to the … conventional banking systems. Since Islamic financial systems are linked to, and associated with the principles of Islamic religion …