Designing a combined Islamic banking index in Iran Banking System

An evaluation of the Progress and regression of Islamic banking or the impact of policies on improving or reducing the efficiency of Islamic banking requires the introduction of the Islamic Banking Indices. The purpose of this paper is to design and introduce a new hybrid index for Islamic banking. This purpose can monitor the situation of Islamic banking in the banking system of Iran. First, Islamic banking branches were identified and put in two classes: Shariah class and Economic class. In the next step, 48 questionnaires were introduced with each branch of Islamic banking. Then based on Two-step Delphi method the weighting of the dimensions of the faces has been identified. The results indicate that, according to the experts of the field, respectively, the branches of deleting usury with a weight of 0.127, economic justice with a weight of 0.115, and observance of Islamic ethics with weight 0.108 of the unit number are most important. Finally, the main goal and the main outcome of this study, through the weighted average of Islamic banking branches, is the design of a combined Islamic banking index.