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Dividend policies of shariah-compliant and non-shariah-compliant firms: evidence from the MENA region

International Journal of Economics and Business Research, 2013
Do shariah-compliant firms pay higher dividends than other firms? Using data from the MENA (Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, UAE, Jordan, Kuwait, and Bahrain) region, this paper shows that shariah-compliant firms not only have higher payout ratios but also have higher likelihood to pay dividends than non-shariah-compliant firms during the period between ...
Farooq, Omar, Tbeur, Oumkeltoum
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Shariah-Compliant Robo-Advisors

2023
This chapter discusses the role of financial technology in Islamic finance. The chapter explores the Islamic finance principles and the key components of the robo-advisory systems, including portfolio management, client profiling, socially responsible investing, and key players in the Shariah-compliant investment horizon.
Jayant Hooda, Vinita Singh, Mansur Ahmed Kazaure, Rohit Singh   +3 more
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Earnings management behaviour of Shariah-compliant firms and non-Shariah-compliant firms

Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, 2015
Purpose – This paper aims to answer the following questions by using the data from the MENA region (Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain): Do Shariah-compliant firms differ from other firms in the quality of information disclosure? and Can investors consider information disclosed
Omar Farooq, Allaa AbdelBari
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Oil price volatility and firm profitability: an empirical analysis of Shariah-compliant and non-Shariah-compliant firms

International Journal of Emerging Markets, 2021
PurposeThis study examines the impact of oil price volatility on firm profitability. As Shariah-compliant firms operate under restrictions, the study also explores whether oil price volatility affects Shariah-compliant firms differently from their non-Shariah-compliant counterparts.Design/methodology/approachThe study sample includes all non-financial ...
Abdullah Bugshan, Walid Bakry, Yongqing Li   +2 more
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Performance of shariah-compliant firms and non-shariah-compliant firms in the MENA region

Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, 2016
Purpose This paper aims to document the relative performance of non-financial shariah-compliant firms and non-financial non-shariah-compliant firms in the MENA (Morocco, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Jordan, Kuwait and Bahrain) region during the period between 2005 and 2009.
Omar Farooq, Amal Alahkam
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Performance of shariah-compliant and non-shariah-compliant ETFs: a comparative study

International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to elucidate the performance discrepancies between shariah-compliant and non-shariah-compliant exchange-traded funds (ETFs), aiming to enrich the academic and practical understanding of Islamic finance‘s nuances in the ETF sector.
Ali Hachim Prati, Muhammad Ashfaq, Shakir Ullah, Rashedul Hasan   +3 more
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Shariah Compliant Web Analysis Tool

2019
Understanding the nature of business around you may help organizations to make a better decision, starting a new business, investing to expand, doing join venture, looking for potential collaborators, and goes on. One of the trending phenomena is to involve in Shariah-compliant businesses.
Noor Latiffah Adam, Nordin Abu Bakar, Shaharuddin Che Soh, Angela Jau Purai   +3 more
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Shariah Compliant Structure of Business Entities

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
The twentieth first century has witnessed resurgence in the observance of fundamental Islamic practices around the world. However, the fact cannot be denied that the current state of business under unbridled capitalism in the majority of cases in the Muslim world remains far from the Islamic ideal. This gap between the ideal and the reality is widening
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Blockchain and Its Shariah Compliant Structure

2019
Islamic finance has gained momentum in the world today. Irrespective of faith conviction, it has been accepted as a mode of financing in the world. The development of Islamic finance was gradual in the past. At the initial stage of its development, Islamic finance was concerned more with Shariah compliance of transactions and contracts used in it ...
Aishath Muneeza, Zakariya Mustapha
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A Shariah-compliant portfolio selection model

Journal of the Operational Research Society, 2017
AbstractThe paper aims to develop a Shariah-compliant optimization model for portfolio selection in an Islamic security market. The security return is considered stochastic and is estimated based on the stochastic market return. The proposed model follows Shariah principles by avoiding excessive risk and providing an ethical and socially responsible ...
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