Editorial

Historical Review of IJIF This year we celebrate 15 years since the launch of ISRA International Journal of Islamic Finance (IJIF). IJIF started in 2009 under the ownership and management of the International Shari’ah Research Academy for Islamic Finance (ISRA) with the vision to promote further innovation in the Islamic finance industry and academia by providing a platform for publishing high quality research in the areas of Islamic banking, economics, finance, law and takāful. ISRA initially published two issues of the Journal per annum in hard copies. Three types of articles were considered: articles of academic rigour, articles by practitioners who have experience in applied Islamic finance, and the research works carried out by ISRA researchers under the heading ‘Research Notes’.