There is a vast literature on regulatory, monetary and institutional aspects of traditional banking system. This is not true for the interest-free Islamic banking framework. In this paper, the functions and tools of central banking in an Islamic framework are evaluated, and suggestions for adapting and revising the currently used tools of central banking for the Islamic central banking are made...

In the wake of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the United States, the UN Security Council passed a resolution targeting transnational sources of terrorist funds. At least one offshore Islamic bank was shut down, and American officials, ignorant about Islamic finance, viewed any “Islamic” bank with heightened suspicion. The Bush Administration targeted Al-Baraka in particular, confu...

The role of entrepreneurs in generating the economy is very important. Thus, nurturing entrepreneurship skills among society is very crucial and should start from the early age. One of the methods is to teach through game such as board game. Game provides a fun and interactive platform for players to learn and play. Besides that as today’s world is moving towards Islamic approach in terms of fi...

Replacement of the traditional interest based credit system with an Islamic credit system was one of the fundamental changes in Iran since 1979. The Islamic credit system, offers the prospect of risk sharing between the borrower and the lender. Small farmers are likely to be risk averse and they are reluctant to go heavily into debt in order to finance investments in new technology and capital ...

This study seeks to discover the best solution for women's property sharing between Islamic and current social practices in Bangladesh. A qualitative method has been adopted to achieve this goal. It is found that the majority of the women are marginalised from their property in the social practice. On the other hand, in the Islamic solution, the property is fixed for all classes of women and is...

Islamic Counselling: An Introduction to Theory and Practice by G. Hussein Rassool successfully differentiates Islamic counseling theory from a wide range of mainstream therapeutic models such as psychoanalytic, humanistic, cognitive–behavioral, and solutionfocused approaches. It serves as an introductory guide to support academics, clinicians, paraprofessionals, and students in the understandin...

The paper takes a closer look into critical thinking in Yemen. It navigates Yemeni graphic design undergraduate education. This tackles the lack of research areas as Yemen has not traditionally encouraged or utilized Within design, field study where is required to create solutions existing and new problems, range culturally relevant for problems are sought rather than same solution each (Barbou...

This research emphasizes attitudinal difference of Malaysian customers about Islamic banking services. The banking service providers can gain excellent benefit from Islamic banking practices upon identification of these differences. A structured questionnaire was constructed to collect the necessary data to answer the research questions as being framed on related affective factors of attitudina...