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This is the first-known study conducted in the United States on the determinants of the intended use of Islamic banking and financial services by U.S. Muslims. An extended Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) model was tested, using structural equation modeling (SEM). The hypothesiz…

This research critically analyses and compares how the United Arab Emirates (UAE)1 Law and English and Welsh (EW) Law regulates obligations in a contract, for a thing that is to come into existence in the future, namely a construction contract. Uncertainty/speculation as to how …

Finance is conventionally associated with modernity and secularization, yet in recent decades Pakistan has seen the institutionalization of shari’a – observant, desecularized banking services. How and why did Islamic Banking and Finance emerge in Pakistan? How did Islamic econom…

The notion of usury/interest, subsumed under the Arabic term riba and Hebraic neshekh/marbit, has been the center of human attention throughout recorded history, but only as an exclusive economic paradigm subject to toleration, limitation or prohibition. Yet, in a clearly dispro…