Islamic Sukuk : Global Experiences and Practices

An Introduction to Islamic Securities (Sukuk)

Islamic securities (Sukuk) are hybrid securities bearing features of stocks and bonds, altogether. Similar to stocks, they indicate a type of partnership and holders of Sukuk will be considered as the owners of underlying asset or project for finance of which, Sukuk have been issued. Theoretically, these holders share any loss and profit resulted from underlying asset. However, these securities...

Islamic Finance: The Impact of the AAOIFI Resolution on Equity-Based Sukuk Structures

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...

Sukuk Vs Conventional Bonds A study into the performance of Islamic Bonds

Global Problem of Hospital Detention Practices

Although an official definition by the World Health Organization (WHO) or any other authority is currently lacking, hospital detention practices (HDP) can be described as: “refusing release of either living patients after medical discharge is clinically indicated or refusing release of bodies of deceased patients if families are unable to pay their hospital bills.” Reports of HDP are very scarc...

Experiences Assessing Agile Practices

Agile practices are increasingly being added to software engineering curricula, notably pair programming and test-driven development. Continuous integration is less commonly included, although the procedure of short-cycle rebuilds and test of applications is common practice in industry. This paper describes a study in which computing undergraduates were given experience of a set of agile practi...