Salman Ahmed Shaikh
Salman Ahmed Shaikh holds Ph.D. in Economics from the National University of Malaysia. He did Masters in Economics from Institute of Business Administration (IBA) Karachi. Currently, he is working as Associate Professor International Islamic University Malaysia in Faculty of Economics and Management Sciences.
He is a published author with 42 peer-reviewed indexed research papers, most of which have been published in Web of Science, Scopus or ABDC ranked journals. He has also presented research works in 36 international research conferences held in Malaysia, Turkey, Japan, Qatar, Brunei, Indonesia and Pakistan. He has also contributed 18 book chapters in book publications by Routledge, Springer, Palgrave, Edward Elgar, DeGruyter and Gower Publishing.
On Web of Science Core Collection Metrics, he has 17 research documents with an H-index of 6 and total citations of 79. On Scopus, he has 25 research documents with an H-index of 6 and total citations of 135. On Google Scholar, he has more than 1,550 citations for his works in research literature with an H-index of 20 as of September 2024.
He is also Editorial Advisory Board Member of Emerald International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management (Indexed in SSCI) and Field Editor of Turkish Journal of Islamic Economics (Indexed in ESCI). He is also Associate Editor of ISRA International of Islamic Finance (Indexed in ESCI and Scopus). Furthermore, Emerald editorial team selected two of his papers for two separate journals as Highly Commended Paper in the 2018 Emerald Literati Awards. He also won paper prize in World Islamic Finance Forum 2018.
In professional corporate career, he has worked for Meezan Bank, BMC Pakistan and Bankers’ Academy, USA. He also worked in two research projects as Principal Investigator for AAOIFI, Bahrain on “Alternate Benchmark Rate for Islamic Finance” and “Institutionalizing Islamic Social Finance for Social Protection” for Institute of Policy Studies & GIZ Germany. He has also worked as consultant for Asian Development Bank & Edbiz Consulting UK on promoting "Islamic Financial Literacy among Children and Women". He also worked as consultant for CIBAFI Bahrain on developing training materials for CIBAFI Sustainability Guide. He also run a monthly periodical with the name of Moral Reflections on Economics published by Islamic Economics Project.
He is a published author with 42 peer-reviewed indexed research papers, most of which have been published in Web of Science, Scopus or ABDC ranked journals. He has also presented research works in 36 international research conferences held in Malaysia, Turkey, Japan, Qatar, Brunei, Indonesia and Pakistan. He has also contributed 18 book chapters in book publications by Routledge, Springer, Palgrave, Edward Elgar, DeGruyter and Gower Publishing.
On Web of Science Core Collection Metrics, he has 17 research documents with an H-index of 6 and total citations of 79. On Scopus, he has 25 research documents with an H-index of 6 and total citations of 135. On Google Scholar, he has more than 1,550 citations for his works in research literature with an H-index of 20 as of September 2024.
He is also Editorial Advisory Board Member of Emerald International Journal of Islamic and Middle Eastern Finance and Management (Indexed in SSCI) and Field Editor of Turkish Journal of Islamic Economics (Indexed in ESCI). He is also Associate Editor of ISRA International of Islamic Finance (Indexed in ESCI and Scopus). Furthermore, Emerald editorial team selected two of his papers for two separate journals as Highly Commended Paper in the 2018 Emerald Literati Awards. He also won paper prize in World Islamic Finance Forum 2018.
In professional corporate career, he has worked for Meezan Bank, BMC Pakistan and Bankers’ Academy, USA. He also worked in two research projects as Principal Investigator for AAOIFI, Bahrain on “Alternate Benchmark Rate for Islamic Finance” and “Institutionalizing Islamic Social Finance for Social Protection” for Institute of Policy Studies & GIZ Germany. He has also worked as consultant for Asian Development Bank & Edbiz Consulting UK on promoting "Islamic Financial Literacy among Children and Women". He also worked as consultant for CIBAFI Bahrain on developing training materials for CIBAFI Sustainability Guide. He also run a monthly periodical with the name of Moral Reflections on Economics published by Islamic Economics Project.
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Design/methodology/approach – The study is qualitative. It reviews literature and provides descriptive data to present its main idea.
Findings – Most Muslim-majority countries are generally income-poor, and the governments are generally weak in their tax collection, effective governance and capacity for development spending. Private sector financial institutions are scarce and mostly cater to the people who can meet the income-based lending criteria. Thus, the institution of waqf can fill the gap as a social finance institution by providing intermediation services for effectively utilising perpetual social savings. Flexibility in the rules of waqf enables it to serve beneficiaries directly or through financial institutions and to provide a wide range of social services.
Research limitations/implications – This conceptual research highlights the need and potential of waqf without discussing the regulatory and operational details of how to effectively institutionalize it in different regions.
Practical implications – The institution of waqf can harness the potential of selfless charitable giving in an effective way for better economic impact in the targeted social segments of society.
Originality value – The paper suggests the establishment of waqf-based training and vocational centres which will increase opportunities of self-employment and contribute in upward social mobility of beneficiaries.
Design/methodology/approach – The study is qualitative. It reviews literature and provides descriptive data to present its main idea.
Findings – Most Muslim-majority countries are generally income-poor, and the governments are generally weak in their tax collection, effective governance and capacity for development spending. Private sector financial institutions are scarce and mostly cater to the people who can meet the income-based lending criteria. Thus, the institution of waqf can fill the gap as a social finance institution by providing intermediation services for effectively utilising perpetual social savings. Flexibility in the rules of waqf enables it to serve beneficiaries directly or through financial institutions and to provide a wide range of social services.
Research limitations/implications – This conceptual research highlights the need and potential of waqf without discussing the regulatory and operational details of how to effectively institutionalize it in different regions.
Practical implications – The institution of waqf can harness the potential of selfless charitable giving in an effective way for better economic impact in the targeted social segments of society.
Originality value – The paper suggests the establishment of waqf-based training and vocational centres which will increase opportunities of self-employment and contribute in upward social mobility of beneficiaries.