International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management: Volume 5 Issue 1

The control of the Shari'a Supervisory Board in the Islamic financial institutions

Samy Nathan Garas

The Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) maintain better control over their transactions than conventional financial institutions (CFIs) through the existence of Shari'a…

Financial market risk and gold investment in an emerging market: the case of Malaysia

Mansor H. Ibrahim

The purpose of this paper is to examine the relation between gold return and stock market return and whether its relation changes in times of consecutive negative market returns…

Islamic banking and economic growth: the Indonesian experience

Muhamad Abduh, Mohd Azmi Omar

The purpose of this paper is to examine the short‐run and the long‐run relationships between Islamic banking development and economic growth in the case of Indonesia.

A comparative study on the level of efficiency between Islamic and conventional banking systems in Malaysia

Mohamed Hisham Yahya, Junaina Muhammad, Abdul Razak Abdul Hadi

The purpose of this paper is to study the difference (or lack of difference) in the efficiency level of Islamic and conventional banking in Malaysia. Are the Islamic banks…

Formulating withdrawal risk and bankruptcy risk in Islamic banking

Rifki Ismal

The purpose of this paper is to formulate both withdrawal risk and bankruptcy risk to mitigate the risks and to find the equilibrium area of revenue sharing to depositors. Taking…

Editor’s notes

M. Kabir Hassan