Publisher's Synopsis
After barely half a century of experience, Islamic banking has become established as a niche industry across the world, offering new and sophisticated financial products designed to be compliant with Islamic legal principles and common law. This comprehensive book, The Foundations of Islamic Banking Theory, Practice and Education, explores the theory, principles and practices underpinning this rapidly expanding sector of banking. First chapter discusses the issue that which system works better during financial crisis either conventional banking system or Islamic banking system. Second chapter focuses on the prospects and challenges about the political economy of the proposed Islamic Banking and finance in Nigeria. Third chapter attempts to analyze and compare the effects of financial crisis and political uncertainty on the three regions in terms of financial stability of both groups of banks. The purpose of fourth chapter is two fold. First, is to attenuate the gap in the Training and Development (T&D) literature in Arab financial entities and in particular Jordanian Organizations by exploring the current management T&D evaluation practices and challenges in the Jordanian banking industry. Second, to suggest practical solutions for T&D evaluation problems in these Organizations. Fifth chapter presents a small business entrepreneurial framework. Sixth chapter aims to investigate the extent to which the conditional volatilities of both Shari'ah compliant stock and conventional stock are related to those of interest rate and exchange rate in the emerging economy of Pakistan. The aim of seventh chapter is to econometrically investigate the long-term relationship between CBs' term-deposit rates (TDRs) and participation banks' (PBs) TDR in Turkey. Eighth chapter investigates a comparison between public, private and foreign banks efficiencies in the banks of Persian Gulf region. Ninth chapter analyzes the bank margin in the principal Gulf banking sectors, identifying the fundamental elements affecting this margin. Tenth chapter examines the performance (on profitability and productivity) of the main Islamic financial instruments after the recent financial crisis at two levels. Eleventh chapter focuses on development of Islamic banking in Turkey and twelfth chapter reviews on service quality of Islamic bank had significantly of influence on customers' satisfaction and then on their trust. Last chapter aims to gauge the perceptions of employees, in both Islamic banks and conventional banks, of Islamic products and services, the training and experience gained in Islamic banking, and the potential of Islamic banking in Malaysia.
