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Corruption is a widespread global problem that has far reaching negative consequences on all spheres of life.

The paper addresses the migrant-refugee debate in relation to recent refugee flows from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and other countries gaining unauthorized entry into Europe. This is compared with the accusations (and denials) that the wealthy countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council ( GCC ) states have not accepted any refugees from Syria in particular. It is argued that the definition of migrants and refugees is problematic in that they often converge with respect to livelihood needs and rights.

فرض ظهور العملات الرقمية المشفرة تحديات جديدة على فقه الاقتصاد الإسلامي، فقد شاع الاتجار والتعامل بهذه العملات في الآونة الأخيرة على نحو يستدعي بيان الحكم الشرعي فيها. وبيان الحكم الشرعي يستدعي فهم ماهية هذه العملات، وخصائصها، وأوجه التعامل بها، وأبعادها الإقتصادية. وتشمل أحكامها الشرعية تعامل الناس بها تداولا وتجارة، وما إذا كانت الشريعة تعترف بثمنيتها فتأخذ أحكام النقود، فتخضع لأحكام الربا الخاصة بالعملات وبالذهب والفضة.

The prime objective of this study is to examine the impact of five macroeconomic indicators (oil price, gas price, money supply, interest rate, and producer price index) on the performance of Qatar Stock Exchange, which will be represented by two indices: QE Index (QEI) and Al Rayyan Islamic Index (RII). A comparison is held between the two indices to determine how similar or different they are impacted by the selected macroeconomic indicators.

This study aims to approach the traditional Islamic concept called "Ahlu al-Hall wa al-A’qd" that may be considered today as members of the parliament by investigating the historical context in terms of origination, revealing its conceptual and contractual foundations and how the nation (Ummah) has been the source of building the concept through the systematic practice of consultancy (Shura). Besides, in the Islamic historical experience, this concept shows that the idea of representation and deputation have appeared early in the Islamic social and political action.

The issue of equality between women and men is a central requirement in feminist thought and human rights in general. Hence, the problematic of differentiation between women and men in some rulings of Shari’a has been raised. Some took it as evidence that discrimination against women is rooted in the teachings of

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We look at market discipline in the Islamic deposit market of Turkey for the period after the 2000 crisis. We find support for quantity based disciplining of Islamic banks through the capital ratio. The evidence for price disciplining is, however, less convincing. In addition, we also look at the effect of the deposit insurance reform in which the dual deposit insurance was revised and all banks were put under the same deposit insurance company in December 2005. We observe that the reform increased quantity based disciplining in the Turkish Islamic deposit market. ©Authors

Although it has been intensively claimed that Islamic banks are subject to more market discipline, the empirical literature is surprisingly mute on this topic. To fill this gap and to verify the conjecture that Islamic bank depositors are indeed able to monitor and discipline their banks, we use Turkey as a test setting. The theory of market discipline predicts that when excessive risk taking occurs, depositors will ask higher returns on their deposits or withdraw their funds.