This article recognises the potential importance of Islamic finance products in Australia, along with the current regulatory impediments preventing Australia from becoming a leader in the Asia-Pacific Islamic finance market. Taking into account the potential importance of, and impediments to, Islamic finance, this article highlights, through the historical development and contemporary state of ...

This article formulates a model of Islamic science, medicine, and bioethics, part of the ongoing inner-Islamic discourse on the positioning of Islam vis-a-vis the life sciences and bioethics as developed within a non-Islamic context. It investigates the Islam-and-science paradigm considering the Islamic categorization of the sciences, provides a working definition of Islamic science including m...

T he disciplines of Arabic and Islamic Studies have undergone a major paradigm shift over the past two decades. For most of the twentieth century, the majority of scholars in these fields focused primarily on the limited materials available in print, taking manuscript materials into consideration only by way of exception. During the latter part of the twentieth century, methodological considera...

The Emergence of `Islamic Education Movement` is a response to the `secularization of education` faced by the ummah (muslim people) all over the world; in the sense that the `traditional Islamic Sciences` which are rooted in Islamic sources i.e. al-Qur’an (the Holy Book) and as-Sunnah (Tradition of the prophet) have been marginalized. Subsequently, Muslim scholars have made serious endeavors to...

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...

This study tries to look at research related Islamic economics and finance in scientific journals. The used descriptive statistical analysis based on 100 published articles national international entire sample journal publication has been over the past 5 years from 2017 2021. results showed that Economic financial is still dominated by theme of Hajj (20%). Waqf (18%) followed banks (15%), zakat...

postmodern thought has affected all area of humanities;however, its base is found in the philosophy of language, where theorists speakof judgment about signification and meaning; the critic is also seen as ajudge. in this article, we try to vet postmodern thought concerning judgmentfrom six various aspects, called judgments. despite the correctness of some ofits points, we are going to cast dou...