This study examines the capital structure of choices in Sharīʿah-compliant markets in view of the numerous attempts made to address the issue of capital structure choice since 1958. None of these attempts studied the capital structure of Sharīʿah-compliant markets. This study applies the...

Purpose: This study aims to identify the internal and external factors affecting the financial performance of general takaful companies operating in Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, UAE, Qatar and Pakistan, using an unbalanced panel data set consisting of 53 companies. Design/methodology/approach: Data...

This study explores the influence of economic fundamentals on both Islamic and conventional equity in the US stock market by applying various methods of time series techniques focusing on the period from January 1996 to September 2013. The empirical results show that the exogenous variables are...