There is a serious lack of empirical studies on Islamic banking. This paper attempts to fill that gap to some extent. Using data for the 1990-98 period, several hypotheses and common perceptions about the practice of Islamic banking have been tested. The performance of Islamic banks has been evaluated using both trend and ratio analyses. For this purpose, some objective “benchmarks” for various...

Research on insurance has been conducted by economists and experts within the finance business fields. However, recently study pertaining to garnered interest from diverese fields, namely sociology, socio-legal studies criminology. There are very limited examining a sociological perspective involves exploring how social, economic cultural elements interconnect with various contextual factors. M...

Qotol-al-Qolob is an organismic and rich text that has been very effective in stabilizing the Sufist discourse. This is because of the flow of Sufism articulated in the late second century in the context of religion and passed through contradictory discourses such as jurisprudence, theology, and philosophy and then emerged in a period that radical rationalism, jurisprudential controversy, philo...