Master of Science in Islamic Finance

The shariah issues involving cryptocurrencies include the permissibility of dealing with them given that they are not backed by assets, nor their value is guaranteed by any authority or party. This is in addition to their vulnerability to sharp fluctuations in their values and to electronic piracy; not to mention the infeasibility of controlling their use in illegal activities, such as financing the drug trade and so on.

يقدم هذا الدليل علميا وعمليا وشاملا للمنتجات المالية الإسلامية بتوصيفها وتطبيقاتها وقضاياها الشرعية، ليكون دليلا للباحثين والأكاديميين والشرعيين، بغية إطلاع هؤلاء على كل ما يتعلق بهذه المنتجات ممّا يمهّد السبيل للاستفادة من خبراتهم في تطوير هذه المنتجات بجذبهم إلى عالم الصيرفة الإسلامية بحثا ونقدا، كما يعين الدليل على هيكلة منتجات المالية الاسلامية هيكلة صحيحة وتوضيح طريقة التطبيق الصحيح لها. وهو كذلك دليل للأفراد والمتعاملين مع المؤسسات المالية الإسلامية، فيطلعهم على كنْه هذه المنتجات، ويجيب عن

In recent years, geopolitical risk (GPR) has been a crucial factor in investment decisions and stock markets. Therefore, we explore the research on the GPR by employing bibliometric and scientometric analytical techniques. We find 366 scientific contributions in December 2021 from the Scopus database by searching ‘Geopolitical risk’ in abstracts, keywords, and titles. Our findings show that GPR research has gained momentum in the last three years. Specifically, the journal Defence and Peace Economics has one of the highest numbers of research and citation on GPR.

This paper evaluates the performance of eight tests with null hypothesis of cointegration on basis of probabilities of type I and II errors using Monte Carlo simulations. This study uses a variety of 132 different data generations covering three cases of deterministic part and four sample sizes. The three cases of deterministic part considered are: absence of both intercept and linear time trend, presence of only the intercept and presence of both the intercept and linear time trend.

This study aims to investigate the effects of board attributes, i.e. board independence, gender diversity, board size and board activity, on the sustainability performance of 439 publicly-listed non-financial companies across 20 emerging countries over the period of 2010–2019.

Human development has been widely accepted as both the primary goal and driver of sustainable development. Human development is critically important for countries attempting a radical transformation from a resource-based economy to knowledge-based, sustainable development, like Qatar. This paper examines Qatar’s human development needs and challenges with respect to its economic, demographic, and educational development goals.

This paper investigates the effects of COVID-19 pandemic-related uncertainty focusing on the US tourism subsectors, including airlines, hotels, restaurants, and travel companies. Using daily stock price data, we compute connectedness indices that quantify the financial distress in the tourism and hospitality industry and link these indices with a measure of COVID-19-induced uncertainty. Our empirical results show that some subsectors of tourism are affected more than others. The connectedness of tourism companies has severely increased after March 2020.