Loughborough University

The study seeks to assess the Corporate Social Performance (CSP) of a sample of forty six IFIs, and finds that most of the IFIs were observed to be focused on meeting their legal, economic and Shari'ah responsibilities as well as their goals for profit maximization. The ethical worldview of the socially responsible financial institutions (SRFIs)in the West is guided by socially determined secular humanistic values, as opposed to religious ones.

The payment of profits earned on the basis of market performance, as an alternative to interest rates, has been a legally valid development that has allowed for the establishment and successful operation of many Islamic financial institutions. The profit and loss sharing (

The author examines the possible introduction of interest-free banking in Kuwait, its implications, operations, advantages and disadvantages, and the transformation process under which such transition would occur - all within the aftermath of the Islamic resurgence movement. The first chapter presents an overview of the Islamic economic system and underlying principles which are the considered by the author to be the cornerstone for change from a conventional economic system to an Islamic one.

The primary purpose of this thesis is to create a theory for evaluating and improving upon Islamic development banks, utilizing the current Islamic Development Bank (IDB) as a case study. The IDB's performance was analyzed within the bounds of financial, economic, social, and technology development functions. Three different perspectives were chosen to evaluate the IDB: the opinion of the staff (supply), the input of the Governor (demand), and a financial and statistical method of analysis. The research here indicates that the IDB is still in the development and growth stage.

This examination financially compares Islamic banks to modern, commercial banks in the hopes of shedding light on the efficiency, advantages, and disadvantages of the Islamic banking system. The Kuwait Finance House, an Islamic institution, is compared to its conventional counterpart, the National Bank of Kuwait. A focus of the evaluation is to assess the effects of the conditions that each bank operates under. In addition, the research attempts to comprehend the two systems' differing frameworks and management, and how they are affected by different types of revenue.