Chara Pratami Tidespania Tubarad¹, Maslinawati Mohamad^2♣ and Nor Farizal Mohammed^2
1Accounting Faculty, Universitas Lampung, Indonesia
²Accounting Research Institute, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia

This study analysed the frontier of Maqasid Shariah (MS) research repertoire by identifying essential features to direct future research in the sector. This research used bibliometric and citation analysis. Scopus is used as a bibliometric data source for many research reviews, scientific policy evaluations, research landscape studies, and university rankings because of its reliability. Scopus yielded 126 data points linked to the article title Maqasid Shariah. Numerous programmes were used, including Microsoft Excel to perform the frequency study, VOS viewer to visualise the data, and Harzing’s Publish or Perish to calculate and analyse citation metrics. The results suggest that Maqasid Shariah is a cross-disciplinary research area where past literature concentrated mainly on business-related and environmental science domains. The growing number of publications on Maqasid Shariah demonstrates that the critical nature of technology has affected the financial services sector, and there are undoubtedly some ramifications for the economy. Performance and products of Islamic finance are the most areas of concern regarding Maqasid Shariah. The data sources selected were from the Scopus database only. This study is the first bibliometric examination of Maqasid Shariah utilising a 16-year-old publication database with a review paper.

Keywords: Maqasid Shariah, Bibliometric Analysis, Network Analysis, Islamic Banking

^♣Corresponding Author: Maslinawati Mohamad, Accounting Research Institute, Universiti Teknologi MARA, 40450 Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia; Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.; Tel: +603-3258 7088