Islamic Banking: Past, Present and Future

Purpose: The Islamic banking literature has been growing rapidly in the last decade. The aim of this study is to carry out a retrospective hybrid review to reveal this literature's influential scientific actors (countries, institutions, journals,.authors and documents), identify and discuss its most important streams, and finally, present a future research agenda Methodology: We use a bibliometric approach, performing a review and objective analysis of 1,304 articles dealing with Islamic banking published during 1983-2021. We apply citation, keyword, and coauthorship analysis, as well as.)bibliographic coupling via VOSviewer software and Biblioshiny (an R package Findings: We identify the influential aspects in the literature and discuss four important research streams: (1) overview, growth, and legal framework of Islamic banks; (2) Islamic banks' performance and risk management practices;.(3) customer and marketing perspectives of Islamic banking; and (4) the dynamics of efficiency in Islamic banks Originality: This is one of the first studies to apply state-of-the-art methodology to review the literature related to.Islamic banking and to highlight the dynamics of Islamic banks while presenting an extensive future research agenda