Islamic finance has gripped the world with a strong fervor and passion. Interest in this discipline has proliferated to almost 60 countries, going beyond the Islamic world to the leading global financial centers. For quite sometime, United Kingdom has adopted an open door policy and provided a level playing field to Islamic finance and now Singapore is following its lead. Every day, Islamic fin...

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...

the most skeptical approach towards the authenticity of islamic original textss, was represented in the late 1970s by john wansbrough. by insisting that isnad of hadiths and bibliographical information are not reliable, wansbrough suggested literary analysis instead of dating of all early islamic texts including the quran. by employing literary analysis to early islamic texts of exegesis, hadit...

It is true that there are traditions, customs, rituals, national games, traditional art, and musical heritage distinguish one nation from another make it clear the a nation. In this respect, Kazakh people not an exception. This rich spiritual, cultural literary of testifies to fact long-standing ancient tribe, follower bagzi nomads who rooted depths centuries.It at all times every had its own v...

Islamic art is unique because its form and function permeate both distance and time. Since the birth of Islam, Muslim artists around the world have created pieces of art that share an uncanny resemblance to pieces created by other Muslim artists through common themes, appearances, and applications. These similarities include calligraphic elements, exaggerated depictions of plants and animals, a...

This study investigates the banking behavior of Islamic bank customers in Bangladesh. By collecting data from a sample of 100 customers of Islamic banks, researchers conducted a comprehensive profile analysis, a number of chi-square tests, and t tests and found a number of key findings as to the behavior of Islamic bank customers in Bangladesh. First, most of the customers of Islamic banks fall...