“…those dealing with fundamental questions and those discussing practical issues. Scholarly publications that addressed the fundamental issues have covered: literature review on fintech, Islamic finance and blockchain (Rabbani et al, 2020b) and cryptocurrency (Rabbani et al, 2022c); the idea of Islamic fintech and the future of Islamic finance (Lajis, 2019;Rabbani and Khan, 2020), including such roles in times of COVID-19 pandemic (Hassan et al, 2020;Rabbani et al, 2020a;Syed et al, 2020), trust enhancement with blockchain technology (Chong, 2021) and the conceptual work on the Islamic digital economy (Mohamed and Ali, 2018); the proposed model of Islamic fintech for financial inclusion and development, e.g. E-Salam fintech (Allaymoun and Hamid, 2020), interest-free Islamic fintech model (Sa'ad et al, 2020), mush arakah smart contract model (Sa'ad et al, 2019), mudharabah crowdfunding model (Ishak and Rahman, 2021), Islamic fintech free money creation model (Altwijry et al, 2021), fintech for Islamic microfinance (Shaikh, 2021); and the notion of Islamic fintech's role in the UN SDGs (Bedoui and Aaminou, 2021) and environmental, social, and governance (Goud et al, 2021).…”