Guest editorial: Islamic finance in South Asia

Islamic financial institutions have a significant role to play in the post-COVID world, as they have shielded market participants from a full-scale meltdown (Hassan et al., 2022, 2021;Naeem et al., 2021). [...]there is a pressing need to research the successful management of Islamic financial institutions and clarify what stakeholders can learn from them. Many international financial institutions and other multilateral organizations in Asia, especially small and medium organizations, are currently using Islamic Finance to promote economic development by encouraging individuals to participate in financial markets through Islamic saving and lending instruments (Abdul-Rahim et al., 2022), or on a macro level by providing Islamic approaches into the monetary system (Mojahedi Moakhar et al., 2022), or to simply hedge risk (Afzal et al., 2023;Yoon et al., 2022). [...]Islamic Finance has proven to be a dependable alternative to initial public offerings (Hanieh, 2023) and public–private partnership financing and entrepreneurship (Anggadwita et al., 2021), more specifically technological entrepreneurship (Motiei, 2022). [...]this study calculates the accuracy of the pre-IPO reports to be 61% and views the high precision as related to DDM. [...]Saeed Akbar and Shehzad Khan et al. evaluate capital construction determinants' impact on the influence levels of SC and non-compliant firms in Pakistan.