Purpose This multidisciplinary industrial research project sets out to develop a hybrid clinical
decision support mechanism (inspired by ontology and machine learning driven techniques) …

In this extensively updated third edition, Hans Visser explores the ideas and concepts that
drive and shape Islamic finance. This incisive book reviews the products, institutions and …

This conceptual paper explores and compares the ethical dimension of Islamic and so-
called ethical banks. The investigation is made in two succeeding steps. First, an individual …

'Leadership'is routinely admired, vilified, ridiculed, invoked, trivialised, explained and
speculated about in the media and in everyday conversation. Despite all this talk, there is …

Proponents of Islamic financial institutions (IFIs) regard their conventional counterparts as
Islamically unacceptable, because the latter are interest-based, not based on fair profit-loss …

This article examines the occurrence and legal implications of 'fatwā shop**'in the Islamic
finance industry and the need to put the proper legal mechanisms in place to regulate the …

Purpose–The purpose of this paper is to provide a critical appraisal of the theme of zulm
(injustice/exploitation) in light of the Islamic finance literature and the general attitude and …

Purpose The purpose of this paper examines how the challenge of poverty can be effectively
addressed by broadly adopting Islamic value based cooperative model (IVCM) where the …

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the concept of rent-seeking behaviour and
rentier state in the context of ẓulm (injustice and exploitation), which is one of the key …

Islamic Banking and Finance (IBF) has become a growing force over the past three decades,
with Pakistan being one of the IBF pioneers by converting to an 'interest-free'banking system …