Islamic social finance: a literature review and future research directions

Kuanova L.A. Sagiyeva R. Shirazi N.S.
2021 Emerald Group Holdings Ltd.

Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research
2021 #12 Issue 5 707 - 728 pp.

Purpose: This paper aims to study the main trends of scientific research in Islamic finance’s social aspects to clarify place, role and functions, especially in the context of increasing social problems. To achieve this goal, this paper focuses on the social component of Islamic finance, analyzes publications on social Islamic finance in the Web of Science database, covering the period from 1979 to 2020, specify the geographical localization of research networks, determines the most cited authors and their scientific position. Design/methodology/approach: The authors have applied several literature review techniques, a bibliometric citation and co-citation analysis, a co-authorship analysis and a review of the most cited papers. The analyzes’ results allow us to offer five future questions in Islamic social finance, zakat and waqf, which have not been investigated before and could influence Islamic social finance and Islamic finance research. Findings: The authors also derive and summarize five leading future research questions. Research limitations/implications: This is a limitation of using only the Web of Science Core Collection database as the premier resource and the most trusted citation index for the world’s scientific and scholarly research. Further study might expand the types of analyzed units, include more keywords and include other databases, such as Scopus. Originality/value: This paper can be considered as an inspirational one to future researchers and policymakers in Islamic social finance.

Bibliometric citation analysis , Islamic social finance , Literature review , Sadaqah , Waqf , Zakat

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Department of Economy and Business, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Higher School of Economics and Business, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan
Department of Islamic Economics and Finance, College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, Doha, Qatar

Department of Economy and Business
Higher School of Economics and Business
Department of Islamic Economics and Finance

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