~us writes Sayyid Qutb, the founding father • ~f the Islamic Brotherhood in Egypt, in a polemic essay! which levels at Christians the common Islamic accusation that they suffer from a 'hideous schizophrenia' encapsulated in the exhortation to 'render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.' Since its inception, Islam has presented unprecedented challenges to...

We compare, using data envelopment analysis (DEA), the performance of Islamic and conventional banks prior to, during and immediately after the 2008 financial crisis (2004-2009). There is no significant difference in mean efficiency between conventional and Islamic banks when efficiency is measured relative to a common frontier. A meta-frontier analysis (MFA), new to the banking context, howeve...

The problem of the current research has been represented by the lack of studies on the foundations of forming the proportional relations in the Islamic architecture. The objective of the study was defined in an attempt to reveal the concepts and the items of the system of proportional relations in the Islamic architecture. The proportion in architecture either derived from the mathematical matr...

Classifying content-based Images using Self Organizing Map Neural Networks Based on Nonlinear Features Ebrahim Parcham Electrical and Computer Engineering Department, Tehran Science & Research University Tehran, Iran Email: [email protected] Monireh Pournazari Department of Electrical Computer and BiomedicalEngineering,Qazvin Branch Islamic Azad University Qazvin,Iran Email: m_pournaza...

F. Hosseinzadeh Lot a, A. A. Noora b, H. Nikoomaram c, M. Alimardani d , M. Modi e (a) Dept. of Math. Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran,Iran. (b) Dept. of Math. Sistan and Balochestan University, Iran, (c) Dept. of Management. Science and Research Branch,Islamic Azad University, Tehran,Iran. (d) Dept. of Math. Tehran -North Branch,Islamic Azad University, Tehran,Iran,...

This study compares the hazard of failure in Islamic and conventional commercial banks using survival models. The sample consists of 421 banks from 20 Middle and Far Eastern countries observed during the 1995 to 2010 period. The conditioning variables are of both bank-level and country-level type. The analysis suggests that Islamic banks have lower failure risk and are less interconnected which...

Purpose – Islamic finance and socially responsible investing (SRI) have been two of the most rapidly growing areas of finance over the last two decades. During this period, they have each grown at rates that far exceed that of the financial markets as a whole. The purpose of this paper is to find similarities and commonalities of both markets and identifies how both could benefit from each othe...

Islamic Finance is more than an asset class – it is a way of life lived by 1.6 billion Muslims around the world. But its reach goes even further – non-Islamic countries, governments, and businesses, have all invested in or issued Islamic securities for one reason or another. With the ongoing push of globalization of trade and finance, Islamic financial flows, long a localized phenomenon, have b...

With the emergence of the Islamic Revolution in Iran, it is questionable whether a theoretical framework can provide for the components of foreign policy called the Islamic Revolution's self-esteem. Those who believe in "Dignifying Foreign Policy" find that in the foreign policy of the Islamic Revolution, the "Motive of Dignity" has a special place and position, so that during the eight-year wa...