The growth of the Islamic financial market in recent years has been remarkable, but this market has faced growing pains in terms of the struggle with Shari'ah-compliance of its products. A major criticism of Islamic financial products has been their resemblance to conventional financial products. This article explores the developments in the Islamic financial market in regard to equity-based su...

This paper investigates the validity of Islamic art as an investment product. We examine the current and future market potential, as well as, performing a hedonic regression analysis on London auction sales from 1998 to 2007. The main findings of the research are; Islamic art returns out performed both the equity and debt markets over the last 10 years; increases in oil prices have a positive e...

The purpose of this exploratory study is to introduce the concept of Islamic E-health. The study defines Islamic E-health and discusses various applications of this concept. Data collection methods used for the study included interviews, Facebook, Google, and iTunes searches using a variety of Islamic E-health-related terms. The results show that some Islamic E-health applications focus primari...

1 Department of Midwifery in Medical University, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, IR Iran 2 Department of Foreign Languages, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, IR Iran * Corresponding author: Tahereh Fathi Najafi, Department of Midwifery in Medical University, Mashhad Branch, Islamic Azad University, Mashhad, IR Iran. Tel: +98-5118687122, Fax: +98-5118687122, E-m...

Touraj Banirostam, Kamal Mirzaie, Mehdi N. Fesharaki Department of Computer Engineering, Central Tehran Branch, Islamic Azad University, IRAN Email: [email protected] Department of Computer Engineering, Maybod Branch, Islamic Azad University, IRAN Email: [email protected] Department of Computer Engineering, Science and research Branch, Islamic Azad University, IRAN Email: fesharak...

1 Department of Computer, Firoozkooh branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh, Iran 2 Department of Mathematics, Firoozkooh branch, Islamic Azad University, Firoozkooh, Iran Manaf Sharifzadeh1 and Shokrollah Ziari 2* Iranian Journal of Optimization Volume 8, Issue 2, 2016, 79-86 Research Paper Islamic Azad University Rasht Branch E-ISSN:2008-5427 Online version is available on: www.ijo.iaura...

The article is concerned with the latest developments in Indonesia's Islamic field. Its focus is on the role of social media in exchange relationships between Islamic preachers and their constituency. The article first discusses economic exchanges between preachers and their followers, and then it concentrates on social exchanges and how they are mediated today. Empirically, the article deliver...

Islamic finance in Australia has witnessed the rapid growth since it was first introduced in 1989 with the Muslim Community Cooperative Australia (MCCA). The operation of Islamic Financial Services Providers in Australia is still subject to basically the same laws and regulations as their conventional counterparts and applies the same conventional interest-based framework for regulatory and sup...

The early models of Islamic banks are based on partnership of mudharaba and musharaka (profit-loss sharing) structure. Such equitybased financing are perceived to be superior to conventional financing from the standpoint of robustness to external shocks and from the standpoint of ethics, fairness and social justice. Where profit-loss sharing mechanisms cannot be used, Islamic banks provide othe...