The aim of this paper is to measure the financial performance of six insurance companies operating in the UAE with the goal of comparing the performance between three Islamic and three conventional insurance companies during the financial crisis of 2008. The primary data source for the...

The Islamic finance industry has grown significantly over recent decades and become a contender in the financial market. The defining feature of this industry is its Sharia underpinning, which provides its institutions with a different business model based on profit-loss sharing. This chapter...

Banks play an important and active role in the economic development of a country. The global financial system (GFS) is a financial system consisting of institutions and regulators that act on the international level, as opposed to those that act on a national or regional level. Islamic banking...

Chapter 1. Islamic Financial Markets: Legal and Regulatory Hurdles -- Chapter 2. An Overview of Ṣukūk -- Chapter 3. Asset-Backed Ṣukūk -- Chapter 4. Asset-Based Ṣukūk -- Chapter 5. Default in the Ṣukūk Market: A Case Study of Default and Near Default Ṣukūk Issuances -- Chapter 6....