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...

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...

For most people, the word ‘‘fundamentalism’’ mainly evokes images of Islamic terrorists or Christian mega-churches and revivalist tents; but in the battle for people’s hearts and minds, scientific fundamentalists have become equally as vocal and strident—and perhaps even more arrogant—in promoting their beliefs and assumptions about the nature of reality. As a result, the polarization between t...

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...

This paper exposes the “roadmap” of how modern Islamist terrorism is financed, through both legitimate and illegitimate means: the networks and linkages between financing obtained on the one hand through sympathetic Islamic governments, Islamic charities and banks, seemingly legitimate businesses operating as fronts, and on the other hand through criminal activities running the full gamut from ...

A. R. Bozorgmanesh a , M. Otadi b, A. A. Safe Kordi c, F. Zabihi d, M. Barkhordari Ahmadi e (a) Department of Chemical Engineering, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (b) Department of Chemical Engineering, Central Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (c) Department of Chemical Engineering, Sharif University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (d) Department of ...

This paper elucidates the two ideologies that fundamentally lead to failure of regimes and often weakened state: tribalism religious fundamentalism. Both its social bed is same have a key role in returning Taliban after 2001. Except for external supportive factors Taliban, internal factors, fundamentalism fund hegemonic resources such as Mullahs (clergies) Madrasas are extremely rooted society ...

W e live in turbulent times. Our epoch is characterized by startling advances on the one hand and conditions of extreme socioeconomic retrogression and distress on the other. Social development is severely uneven and yet deeply intertwined. This has created unexpected convulsions which are exploding across the planet. Both a consequence and a cause of this turbulence is a resurgence of religion...

Religious fundamentalism is a vigorously debated topic these days. It frequently confined to one-dimensional structure, which has been connected religious violence. The current study claims that the existing use of term "extreme" did not apprehend various perceptions, opinions, and outlooks characterize excessive behavior. deconstructs implication word in perspectives responds researchers' call...