Humanomics: Volume 24 Issue 1

Islamic world's development policy responses to the challenges of financial globalization

Muhammad Iqbal Anjum

Purpose – This paper aims to analyze the nature, mechanisms, conventional and modern instruments, dynamics, and the future possibilities of the contemporary phenomenon of…

Rise and fall of knowledge power: an in‐depth investigation

Hjh Salma Bee Hj Noor Mohamed Abdul Latiff, Abul Hassan

Muslims as an ummah (community) held knowledge power for more than 500 years and dominated in the field of historiography, religious texts, medicine, astronomy, mathematics…

Efficiency and competition of Islamic banking in Malaysia

Hamim S. Ahmad Mokhtar, Naziruddin Abdullah, Syed M. Alhabshi

In an attempt to enrich the literature of the efficiency of Islamic banks, this study aims to empirically investigate the efficiency of the fully fledged Islamic banks as well as…

Banking for the poor: the role of Islamic banking in microfinance initiatives

Asyraf Wajdi Dusuki

The main purpose of this paper is to review the microfinance scheme and discuss how Islamic banks can participate in such an endeavour without actually compromising the issue of…

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