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Unlocking Financial Inclusion: The Dynamics of Bank Account Ownership in Urban Slums

open access: yesSustainable Development, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 6532-6557, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Financial inclusion is a key driver of sustainable development, contributing to poverty reduction (SDG 1), gender equality (SDG 5), and reduced inequalities (SDG 10). Despite extensive financial‐inclusion policies in India, residents of urban slums remain largely excluded from formal banking systems.
Davide Moro   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Corporate governance and Shariah compliance in institutions offering Islamic financial services [PDF]

open access: yes
The structures and processes established within an institution offering Islamic financial Services (IIFS) for monitoring and evaluating Shariah compliance rely essentially on arrangements internal to the firm.
Grais, Wafik, Pellegrini, Matteo
core  

The Vicissitudes of the Nafs: Madness, Paralysis, and the Work of Transgression in Sufi Ethics

open access: yesAnthropology of Consciousness, Volume 37, Issue 2, Fall 2026.
ABSTRACT How should we theorize Sufi ethics when the practice of zikr (remembrance) that leads to spiritual enlightenment (tazkiyya) might also bring one to the brink of majzubiyat (madness)? What forms of regulation or restraint are imagined or enacted by practitioners to prevent spiritual boundlessness from perverting into its underside of paralysis (
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

DETERMINANTS OF THE LONG-TERM PERFORMANCE OF MALAYSIAN INITIAL PUBLIC OFFERINGS

open access: yesThe International Journal of Banking and Finance
This study examined the determinants of the long-term performance of 351 initial public offerings (IPOs) launched in Malaysia over the 2002–2010 period.
Wahidah Shari, MOHAMAD ABU HASSAN
doaj   +1 more source

Nafsanalysis: The Problem of Refinement in Sufi Ethics

open access: yesEthos, Volume 54, Issue 3, September 2026.
Abstract The nafs is the spirit in its ordeal of embodiment. It is the veil through which separation from God becomes the condition of relation to Him. Drawing on two years of ethnographic fieldwork among practitioners of the Naqshbandia Awaisia Sufi order in Pakistan, this article approaches the nafs as the site of enjoyment that survives refinement ...
Muhammad Osama Imran
wiley   +1 more source

Shariah governance framework gaps and issues

open access: yes, 2014
The ultimately concern of Islamic Financial Institutions is the conduct of their business in accordance to the principles of Shariah. In light of this concern, The Shariah Governance Framework was introduced into the system.
Shaikh Abdul Razak, Shaikh Hamzah   +1 more
core   +1 more source

Governance of a complex system: water [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This paper sets out a complex adaptive systems view of water governance. Overview Fresh water is a life - enabling resource as well as the source of spiritual, social and economic wellbeing and development.
Elizabeth Eppel, Eppel, Elizabeth
core  

Corporate governance, Islamic governance and earnings management in Oman: A new empirical insights from a behavioural theoretical framework [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Purpose: This paper examines the impact of corporate (CG) and Islamic (IG) governance mechanisms on corporate earnings management (EM) behaviour in Oman.
Avison, Lynn   +8 more
core   +1 more source

The effect of shariah governance and internal control on operational efficiency: comparative institutional insights from Islamic banks in Indonesia and Malaysia

open access: yesCogent Business & Management
Islamic banks in Indonesia and Malaysia are central to regional Islamic finance, yet their operational efficiency remains uneven and not fully understood, particularly in light of differing Shariah governance and internal control frameworks.
Akhmad Fajar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Shariah-Compliance Hotels Alternative 1

open access: yes, 2016
Alternative model for Shariah-compliant ...
Rushami Zein Yusoff (2941935)   +2 more
core   +1 more source

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