2019
DOI: 10.26501/jibm/2019.0902-004
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An Empirical Study of Shar¯ı‘ah Legitimacy of Islamic Banking Operations in Pakistan

Abstract: The legitimacy of Islamic banking refers to the compliance with the precepts of Shar¯ı‘ah (Islamic law) of the pronouncements and their implementation, requisites of various contracts, as well as, realization of the welfare objectives. Therefore, the Islamic banks are supposed to follow the Islamic values focused to bring benefit to the society alongside the commercial motive. These distinguishing features establish identity of the Islamic banks separate from their conventional counterparts and require pursuin… Show more

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“…According to the Thomson Reuters (2018) "State of Global Islamic Economy, 2018-19", Pakistan ranks at the 7th position in Islamic finance, after Malaysia, UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and even Oman that initiated its Islamic finance program in 2012. The main reason behind this slow growth is the lack of credibility of Islamic banks among the public in terms of the level of Sharī'ah compliance and Sharī'ah legitimacy (Khaleequzzaman, Mansuri & Rashid, 2016). Islamic banks have not been able to establish identity to offer really Sharī'ah compliant products to resolve the problems created by the interest based system.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…According to the Thomson Reuters (2018) "State of Global Islamic Economy, 2018-19", Pakistan ranks at the 7th position in Islamic finance, after Malaysia, UAE, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and even Oman that initiated its Islamic finance program in 2012. The main reason behind this slow growth is the lack of credibility of Islamic banks among the public in terms of the level of Sharī'ah compliance and Sharī'ah legitimacy (Khaleequzzaman, Mansuri & Rashid, 2016). Islamic banks have not been able to establish identity to offer really Sharī'ah compliant products to resolve the problems created by the interest based system.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Currently, Islamic banks are being criticized on grounds of copying conventional products and focusing only on the legal form and ignoring the substance of transactions (Asutay, 2012;Qoyum, 2018) whereas, the inherent social orientation of Islamic economy, which is based on maqās . id al-Sharī'ah, suggests Islamic banking system to satisfy social needs of the society as well (Ibrahim & Momin, 2016;Khaleequzzaman, Mansoori, & Rashid, 2016). Therefore, there is a need to develop maqās .…”
Section: Rationale Of Re-constructing the Indexmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In the context of Islamic finance, Shariah compliance is described as "the compliance of operations and activities with the precepts of Shariah in terms of the pronouncements and their implementation, requisites of various contracts, as well as, fulfillment of the welfare objectives" (Khaleequzzaman et al, 2016). Therefore, Shariah compliance framework can be considered as a benchmark, which provides assurance regarding the Shariah legitimacy of financial products offered by Islamic banks.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%