Dissertation Topics in Islamic finance, Islamic banking, takaful and Islamic Accounting
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Islamic finance dissertation topics
Islamic banking
Compare the customer deposits between Islamic and conventional bank
The sources of uses of funds in Islamic banks – country or region-specific comparative analysis
Islamic banking experiences: A country comparative analysis or study
Islamic Banking in the ……. (country): Opportunities and threats
Islamic Banking Theories and Practices: country analysis
Islamic banking windows/ system into Conventional Banking Systems
Islamic Finance: As an alternative social responsible and ethical investing.
Islamic Financial Institutions and Products
Legal and ethical issues in Islamic banking
Transferring from conventional to Islamic banking
Current account contracts in Islamic banking : A comparative study between Islamic contracts of Amanah, Qard Hasan, Wadiah
The dominance of sales and lease based transactions in assets of Islamic banks : comparative study.
Financial Reporting for Islamic financial institutions
Islamic bank’s investment deposits disclosures (are the disclosures done credit -debtor relationship or basic mudarabah partnership or Wakala partnership)
Assets side of Islamic banks comparison with the conventional bank’s asset side
The liability side of Islamic bank comparison with the conventional bank’s assets side.
Disclosure of Mudarabah investment in Islamic banks
Difference between AAOIFI disclosures and IFRS for Islamic banks
Does AAOIFI disclosure contradict with IFRS disclosure requirements?
Disclosure of Charity funds of Islamic banks
How does Zakath funds are distributed in Islamic banks
Cash flow statement of Islamic banks and how does it differ from conventional banks
Change in Stockholder’s equity of Islamic bank and conventional banks
Mudarabah Investment distribution account of Islamic banks
Islamic Financial Instruments
Islamic Financial Instruments development
The role of Sharia’a boards in Islamic financial instrument development
Islamic banking product to help the international trade
Murabaha or Ijara : The best financing
Mudaraba or Musharaka : The best equity financing
Murabaha Financing vs. Conventional leasing: cash flow and risk analysis
Cooperation with….
Study on How do Islamic bank cooperate with conventional bank in international trade
Study on How do Islamic bank cooperate with central banks in conventional environment
Structure and functions
The function of commercial banking: Compare the Islamic and conventional banks
Structure of Islamic bank : compare with the conventional bank
Internalization of Islamic banks
Customer relationship between the conventional and Islamic banks
Profit and Loss sharing mechanism of Islamic Bank
Interbank
Interbank transaction of Islamic bank – current system and proposals
Interbank borrowing of Islamic banks
Tawarruq as a tool of interbank borrowing
Interbank bench mark for Islamic banks – proposals
Developing Islamic financial instruments to ease the interbank transaction
Mergers and Acquisition
Cross border mergers and acquisition of Islamic banks
Do mergers or acquisition will affect the efficiency of Islamic banks
Islamic banks entry – from a country perspective
Bank’s failure
Analysis of Islamic banking failures
Why Islamic banks does are more resistance to failure
Corporate governance, accounting and Risk management
Risk management in Islamic banks
Risk management practices comparative analysis for conventional and Islamic banks
Credit risk management of Islamic banks/Islamic financial institutions (IFI)
Liquidity risk management of Islamic banks (IFI)
Asset and Liability management of Islamic banks/IFI
Commercial risk management of Islamic banks/IFI
Sharia compliant risk management of Islamic banks/IFI
Performance and credit risk management of Islamic banks
Performance and ALM of Islamic banks
Profitability and risk management of Islamic banks and IFI
Analysis of derivatives instruments by Islamic banks
Islamic derivatives markets
Hedging techniques used by Islamic banks (country or regional specific)
Effectiveness of hedging techniques used by Islamic banks
Is profit rate swap and interest rate swap same in terms of payoff?
Differentiating conventional forward or future market with Islamic Salam based products
Options: developing Islamic options products
Developing Islamic hedging products based on Juala or bay al arbun contracts
Financial engineering in Islamic finance industry: Country comparison.
Financial engineering in Islamic finance for way forward ..
Corporate social responsibility
Islamic bank and corporate social responsibility
Islamic banking and poverty alleviation
Corporate Social Responsibility of Islamic Banks
CSR and profitability of Islamic banks
How corporate governance is different from conventional banking and Islamic banking
Performance
Performance of Islamic bank and conventional bank in a selected country
Measuring the productivity of Islamic banking
Islamic Banks performance in industrial lending
Measuring the performance of Islamic Banks
Performance of Islamic banks during the financial crises
Comparative analysis of performance of Islamic banks and conventional banks during the financial crises/ post or during.
Customer relationship, marketing and strategy
Investigating the Customer Relationship Management in Islamic banks – (case can be taken from any bank or country perspective)
Investigating the customer loyalty in Islamic banks
Identifying the competitive strategy of Islamic banks: a comparison with conventional banks
Developing a model for customer loyalty in Islamic banks
Brand management of Islamic Financial institutions
Customer loyalty for Islamic banks
Consumer behavior for Islamic credit cards
Customer perception of Islamic banking windows in Conventional Banks
Investigating the CRM activities in Islamic Banks
Switching behavior of Conventional banks to Islamic Banks – An international perspective
Ethical marketing for Islamic banking
Credit crises
Islamic mortgage system as a solution for current credit crises
The effect of credit crises in Islamic banking
Measuring the effect of credit crises in Islamic Banking
Islamic banks less affected by credit crises
History, development and challenges
Development or establishment of issues of Islamic banking – in particular country or region
Islamic Banking in (country) – Development, perspectives and evolution
Challenges faced by the Islamic banks
Challenge: Arabic terminology – Merits and demerits
Knowledge management and Islamic finance education
Islamic banking and knowledge management
Knowledge Management in Islamic banks
Skill gap and recruitment gap for Islamic financial institution
Employer preference of Online versus traditional degrees in Islamic qualification
How effective Islamic finance education to cater the growing demand.
Sharia’a board
Sharia’a Boards in Islamic banks
Influence of religious boards or Sharia’a councils in Islamic banks
How effective Sharia audits
Fatwa unification for Islamic banks
Standardization or harmonization of Fatwas in Islamic banking/IFI industry.
Islamic Economics
Fiscal policy Islamic economy
Islamic banking and (country’s) growth
Islamic finance industry and (Country’s) growth
Inflation in Islamic economy
How Islamic economy can reduce the inflation
Contribution of Islamic economy in infrastructure development of developing country
How the choices made by human race in Islamic economic system with scare resources
Is resource scare in Islamic Economy?
Opportunity cost from Islamic Economics perspectives
Reducing the effects of climate change
Development of SME in Islamic based economies
Islamic economy and Adams Smith a comparative study
Labor migration in Islamic economy
Unemployment and Islamic economic system
How Islamic economic system can reduce the unemployment
Solution for unemployment under the Islamic economy
Poverty alleviation in Islamic economy
Islamic economic model as solution for global economic crises
International trade under Islamic economic model
Foreign exchange depreciation and appreciation in Islamic economic model
Micro finance in Islamic economy
How Market equilibrium decided in Islamic economy
Comparative analysis of socioeconomic development of Islamic economy and socialist economy
Comparative analysis of socioeconomic development of Islamic economy and capitalistic economy
How the Islamic economic models contribute to the productivity increase
Contribution of Islamic economy for financial stability and macroeconomic gains
Capital mobility in Islamic economic system
Islamic finance system and economic growth
Islamic finance system and economic growth
Islamic banks in poverty alleviation
Economical functions of Islamic Financial Market
How Islamic banks can help in Economic Development
Islamic Capital Market
How does an Islamic financial market works
Investment: An Islamic perspective
Development or Growth of Islamic capital market
The products in Islamic capital market
Filtering the stocks for Islamic investments
Sukuk
Valuing the Sukuk
Developing Hybrid Sukuk to cater to various needs of Islamic banks or governments
Green Sukuk as corporate social responsibility.
Comparative analysis of conventional bonds interest rate with profit rates of Sukuk.
Risk management practices for Sukuk
Sharia compliant issues for Sukuk structuring
Development Sukuk market and country’s economic indicators
Compare Value at Risk between Sukuk and conventional bonds
Micro Financing
Micro Financing in Islamic finance industry: For country developments.
Islamic micro financing techniques
Structuring new products for Islamic micro financing
Micro finance increases access to credit for poor in developing countries
Social finance: gives access to charities and social enterprises access to finance.
Islamic entrepreneurial finance
Islamic social finance
Islamic Insurance
How ethical Takaful compared to conventional insurance
Comparative analysis of Takaful industry with conventional insurance (country or region specific)
Performance of Takaful industry
Customer perception of Takaful system
Developing Takaful model
Private Equity and Venture capital
Islamic venture capital bank
Islamic mode of financing for venture capitalists
Islamic private Equity investments
Islamic financing for startups
Mudaraba based PLS for venture capitalists
Vulture financing using Islamic contracts
Islamic Real Estate Market
Islamic mode of financing for real estate properties
Comparative analysis of Islamic and conventional Real estate financing