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In Islamic Law and Society in Indonesia: Corporate Zakat Norms and Practices in Islamic Banks (Routledge, 2022), Alfitri (Faculty of Sharia and Law, the Sultan Aji Muhammad Idris State Islamic University of Samarinda) “presents original case studies based on sociolegal field research on the reception of the new obligations in the Islamic banks that choose… CONTINUE READING

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In “The Role of Car Financing In Shaping Islamic Banking Landscape” (Journal of Finance, Accounting and Management 15, no. 1 (2024)), Muhammad Usman (Karachi University Business School, Pakistan), relying on a number of online surveys completed by selected customers, “defines how Islamic banking product Car Ijarah affects the growth, profitability and promotion of Islamic banking… CONTINUE READING

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In “Empirical Evidence on the Relation Between Progress on Sustainable Development Goals and Adaptation of Islamic Finance” (IGI Global, 2023), Dogus Emin and Aysegul Aytac Emin (Social Sciences University of Ankara, Turkey) “aim to investigate the dynamic correlation and lead/lag relation between the progress of the countries on the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and adaptation of Islamic… CONTINUE READING

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In “Bank Liquidity Creation: A Comparative Study of Islamic and Conventional Banks” (SSRN, December 4, 2023), Muhammad Umar (School of Economics and Management, East China Jiaotong University) and Muhammad Shafiq (Air University – Islamabad), using “data from 471 banks of 22 Muslim majority countries ranging from the year 2010 to 2016,” find that “the determinants… CONTINUE READING

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Digitalization in Halal Management, ed. Ahmad Rafiki (Universitas Medan Area, Medan, Indonesia) (Springer, 2023), provides “approaches and ways in halal management and digitalization,” “[p]resents theories and cases on halal management and information technology,” and “[p]rovides comprehensive and detail[ed] content on halal products and industries.”

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In “About Scholarly Works in the Field of Islamic Economic Law: A Visualization of Related Topics” (Umma University Publications, 2023), Ahmad Abbas and Manswab Mahsen Abdulrahman survey articles published online between 1992 and 2021 that relate to Islamic economic law, finding a total of 169 articles and 645 citations, as well as an increasing interest… CONTINUE READING

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In “Aligning Islamic Law and Customary Law: Legal Dialectics in The Tradition of Forced Marriage in Jambi” (Justicia Islamica 20, no. 1 (2023)), Dinda Difia Madina and others critically explore how arguments from Islamic law are invoked to justify forced marriages in a locality in Malaysia by gathering and analyzing a set of interviews from… CONTINUE READING

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The Pew Center recently published its empirical findings on religion among Asian Americans, reporting, among other things, that “[a]bout 6% of Asian Americans now say their religion is Islam.”

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In “Are emerging Islamic equity markets immune from contagion effects during the COVID-19 pandemic crisis? Evidence from the higher-order comoment-based contagion tests” (Economic Research 36, no. 3 (2023)), Nour El Houda Benzarti and Zouheir Mighri (University of Sousse, Tunisia) “investigate the possible contagion effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on twenty-four emerging Islamic equity markets.” The… CONTINUE READING

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In “The Impact of Islamic Branding on Customer Loyalty with Customer Satisfaction as an Intervening Variable” (in Islamic Sustainable Finance, Law and Innovation (2023)),  Abdul Muizz Abdul Wadud (International Islamic University of Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia) and Layaman (Institute of IAIN Syekh Nurjati Indonesia, Cirebon, Indonesia) find empirically ” that Islamic branding and customer satisfaction variables… CONTINUE READING