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This study reviews the literature related to Islamic microfinance institutions (IMFI) published in reputable international journals. The manuscripts that have been collected consist of 71 papers that are classified into several study topics. The most researched topic is Poverty alleviation with as many as 25 papers (35%). Next are the papers with the topic of Waqf-based microfinance as many as 12 papers (17%). This follows with 11 papers on the topic of Marketing & Fintech (15%), and 10 papers on the topic of Sustainability & Outreach (14%). Meanwhile, the paper with the theme Maqashid Shariah ranks fifth with a total of 7 papers (10%). Finally, there are 6 papers with the theme of Risk management & Governance (8%). At the end of each topic, the essence of research is presented for future research, which will be useful for academics and practitioners.

The contribution of Islamic banking towards economic growth remains debatable amongst academicians and practitioners. This study investigates the relationship between Islamic banks’ financing and economic growth in Indonesia which is the largest Muslim population country. This study adopts Autoregressive-Distributed Lag (ARDL) and utilizes time-series quarterly data from 2011Q1 to 2019Q3. The study uses four predictors: financing to deposit ratio; inflation; gross capital fixed formation; and trade openness. The results from the auto-regressive distributed lag model indicate that, in the long-run, Islamic banks' financing has a significant impact on the Indonesian economy. However, in the short-run, financing does not make a substantial contribution to Indonesian economic growth. The study’s key implication is that financing by Islamic banks still makes a limited contribution to economic growth in Indonesia. This study enhances the literature review, specifically on evaluating the contribution of Islamic banks towards economic growth. Numerous existing studies on this topic covering the crisis period data, which might suffer from data bias. Therefore, this study addresses this topic, excluding the global financial crises period such as 1998, 2008, and 2020, to demonstrate Islamic banks' evident contribution to Indonesian economic growth.

This study aims at investigating the factors affecting the share’s underpricing in service companies of the Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Indonesia Stock Exchange (IDX) covering the period from 2011 to 2017. Compared to the precedent studies, this study provides an empirical comparison between Islamic and non-Islamic shares on 22 underpricing stock samples from 44 IPOs in Islamic service shares and 21 underpricing samples from 32 IPOs in non-Islamic service shares. This study adopts a multiple linear regression analysis and an independent sample t-test method. It is revealed that the underwriter's reputation and auditor's reputation have a significant effect on the underpricing of IPO on IDX, both in Islamic and non-Islamic service companies. The result of independent samples t-test indicates that Islamic service shares companies have better financial performance compared to non-Islamic service shares companies. Predicated upon the results, this study implicatively insinuates that companies based on Shariah compliance could anticipate the underpricing level more expeditiously since the Shariah principles are in line with the decreasing level of underpricing.

Purpose -This study investigates the influential factors of mobile banking service quality dimension (enjoyment, security, ease, design, and application system) of Indonesian Islamic banks toward customer satisfaction.Methodology -This study uses 100 respondents who are Islamic mobile banking users in Indonesia and applies the Partial Least Square for Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) approach.Findings -This study reveals that the enjoyment, security, design, and application system of Islamic mobile banks significantly impact customer satisfaction. This study suggests that Islamic banks should pay more attention to increasing their mobile banking application systems, which is the most crucial factor influencing customer satisfaction.Research limitations -This study is limited to the sample of five top Islamic banks' customers in Indonesia with 100 respondents. Thus, the result of this study cannot be generalized to other countries. Practical implications -The findings offer valuable insights intoIslamic banks about improving their mobile banking services' quality to gain more satisfied customers, which benefited their financial and non-financial performances.Originality -This study specifically involved users of Islamic mobile banking from five Islamic banks, received the Top Brand Award in 2019. Therefore, this study provides significant guidelines for the rest of the Islamic banks in Indonesia to improve their customer satisfaction using mobile banking by referring to the Top 5 Brand Award.