The purpose of this study is to initiate a drive towards standardisation of Islamic finance terminology for academic use, encourage the use of search engine data in Islamic finance research and create a methodology for choosing research keywords special to Islamic finance. Islamic finance terminology is defined for the purposes of this study as the Arabic/Islamic terms unique to Islamic finance literature written in English. Because of its organic evolvement across different geographical regions, there is no standard spelling of these Islamic finance terms (IFTs) ... Kindly email to kmc@inceif.org to access the item.