Contemporary research on investment behaviour in Islamic perspective, most of the time, finds it expedient to assume zero rate of time preference in an Islamic economy. The author argues that there is no justification for that. According to him, there is nothing against positive time preference or against realizing a time value of money in an Islamic framework, as long as time value of money is...

Conventional credit card transactions are not consistent with Islamic principles, as exemplified by the Islamic banking system and the ‘Murabaha sale’. Thus, if Islamic principles are to be applied to e-commerce, where credit card transactions are the norm, a new and secure electronic payment process is required. In this paper we present a method for secure electronic Murabaha transactions. Aft...

This study is aimed at examining the long run and short run relationships between both Islamic and conventional financial development with the economic growth in the Bahrain dual financial system. Using quarterly data (2000:1-2010:4) retrieved from Monthly Statistical Bulletin of Central bank of Bahrain (CBB) and International Financial Statistics (IFS) of International Monetary Funds (IMF), th...

This study is aimed at investigating the dimensions of customer satisfaction in Indonesia Islamic banking industry and how those dimensions could affect the customers’ switching behavior. Data collection is done by using self administered questionnaire and involves as many as 732 Islamic bank customers from the area of Jakarta. The methods used in this study are factor analysis and logistic reg...

Islamic bioethics is in good health, this article argues. During the twentieth century, academic researchers had to deal with a number of difficulties including the scarcity of available Islamic sources. However, the twenty-first century witnessed significant breakthroughs in the field of Islamic bioethics. A growing number of normative works authored by Muslim religious scholars and studies co...

Sistem Perbankan Syariah mengalami inovasi yang sangat beragam dan perkembangan cepat. Kartu kredit adalah salah satu bentuk dalam produk perbankan Syariah. Penggunaan Kredit masih menjadi perdebatan di kalangan ulama. Tulisan ini bertujuan untuk mengkaji tentang persoalan penggunaan kartu Indonesia, atau sering dikenal dengan Permasalahan dibahas seputar adanya upah digunakan akad kafalah ijar...

440 Associate Professor, Professor, Orthodontic Research Center and Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran. Dentist in Private Practice, Shiraz, Iran. d Scientific Faculty Member and Lecturer, Department of Dental Morphology, Dental Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran. Corresponding author: Vahid Rakhshan. No 17, Siami All...