A survey of Islamic banking and finance literature: Issues, challenges and future directions

By Paresh Kumar Narayan, D. Phan. Pacific-Basin Finance Journal, 2017

147 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Abstract This paper undertakes a survey of the literature on Islamic banking and finance. The aim is to provide an understanding of the literature, identify key issues and challenges, and explore potential directions for future research. Our survey reveals that there is a need to; (a) focus on new areas of research including datasets, (b) establish the economic significance of the statistical results, (c) undertake research that explores new questions/hypotheses, and (d) establish the robustness of the findings. The paper discusses these issues.

Subfields: Accounting, Economics and Econometrics, Finance

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Citations in the corpus

• Pandemics and the Asia-Pacific Islamic Stocks (2020, background): “This is surprising given the vast literature on Islamic stock markets and the relevance of Islamic stocks in active portfolios (see Narayan & Phan, 2019).”
• The Impact of Knowledge Sharing and Innovation upon Sustainable Performance in Islamic Banks: A Mediation Analysis through an SEM Approach (2019, background): “Based on past literature, it is revealed that most of the workforce in Islamic banks lacks an understanding of Shari’ah rules, and this is due to the fact that the majority of the workforce has come from conventional banks [13].”