The Impact of Spelling Variations of Islamic Finance Terminology

The purpose of this study is to initiate a drive towards standardization of Islamic finance terminology for academic use, encourage the use of search engine data in Islamic finance research and create a methodology for choosing research keywords special to Islamic finance. Islamic finance terminology is defined for the purposes of this study as the Arabic/Islamic terms unique to Islamic finance literature written in English. Because of its organic evolvement across different geographical regions, there is no standard spelling of these Islamic finance terms (IFTs).