Acceptance of Islamic Banking among non-muslims in Malaysia

IslamiC banking has been almost three decades when the first Islamic bank makes ,its debut in Malaysia. Islamic banks have to face stiff competition, especially with conventional banks which have longer history than Islamic banks. thus, it is important for the Islamic banks to know the awareness, un...

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Main Author: Stellia, Djapri
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2013
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spelling my-unimas-ir.120662023-08-03T08:38:01Z Acceptance of Islamic Banking among non-muslims in Malaysia 2013 Stellia, Djapri HB Economic Theory IslamiC banking has been almost three decades when the first Islamic bank makes ,its debut in Malaysia. Islamic banks have to face stiff competition, especially with conventional banks which have longer history than Islamic banks. thus, it is important for the Islamic banks to know the awareness, understanding, attitudes and banking selection criteria of Malaysians, especially non-Muslims towards it. In Malaysia, we have roughly 40% of the population belongs to non-Muslims and hence non-Muslims market is respectively important to Islamic ban0 The purpose of this research is to examine the level of awareness, understanding, attitudes and banking selection criteria towards the acceptance of Islamic banking among non-Muslims. A total of 384 respondents from Sibu are chosen for the purpose of this study. For the analysis, Pearson moment product correlation and multiple linear regressions were adopted to analyze the results. The results indicated that the awareness, understanding, attitudes, banking selection criteria do have positive relationship with the acceptance towards Islamic banking. This study also provides implications for the Islamic bankers to attract non-Muslims customers and recommendations for future research in Islamic banking. Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) 2013 Thesis http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12066/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12066/1/Stellia.pdf text en validuser masters Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS) Faculty of Economics and Business
institution Universiti Malaysia Sarawak
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topic HB Economic Theory
spellingShingle HB Economic Theory
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Acceptance of Islamic Banking among non-muslims in Malaysia
description IslamiC banking has been almost three decades when the first Islamic bank makes ,its debut in Malaysia. Islamic banks have to face stiff competition, especially with conventional banks which have longer history than Islamic banks. thus, it is important for the Islamic banks to know the awareness, understanding, attitudes and banking selection criteria of Malaysians, especially non-Muslims towards it. In Malaysia, we have roughly 40% of the population belongs to non-Muslims and hence non-Muslims market is respectively important to Islamic ban0 The purpose of this research is to examine the level of awareness, understanding, attitudes and banking selection criteria towards the acceptance of Islamic banking among non-Muslims. A total of 384 respondents from Sibu are chosen for the purpose of this study. For the analysis, Pearson moment product correlation and multiple linear regressions were adopted to analyze the results. The results indicated that the awareness, understanding, attitudes, banking selection criteria do have positive relationship with the acceptance towards Islamic banking. This study also provides implications for the Islamic bankers to attract non-Muslims customers and recommendations for future research in Islamic banking.
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title Acceptance of Islamic Banking among non-muslims in Malaysia
title_short Acceptance of Islamic Banking among non-muslims in Malaysia
title_full Acceptance of Islamic Banking among non-muslims in Malaysia
title_fullStr Acceptance of Islamic Banking among non-muslims in Malaysia
title_full_unstemmed Acceptance of Islamic Banking among non-muslims in Malaysia
title_sort acceptance of islamic banking among non-muslims in malaysia
granting_institution Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, (UNIMAS)
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publishDate 2013
url http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/12066/1/Stellia.pdf
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