Ricerc@Sapienza

Focusing on the comparison of Islamic Stock Market (ISM) and Conventional counterparts, this paper tries to answer to the following questions: “Are Islamic indexes a ‘Safe Haven’ for investors?”, and “Does Islamic equity investment provide diversification benefits to Conventional investors?”. Performing a systematic literature review on a sample of articles published in academic journals from 2009 to 2019, we show a lack of consensus on the answers.

This paper deals with the excavation of the trench carried out at Istakhr in 2012, to the west of the site of the mosque. The results of the excavation, compared with Herzfeld’s archaeological tests dating to 1932, provided new insights into the arrangement of the buildings in the area and, more generally, the planning of this sector of the city during the early Islamic period.