Özet:

Research related to Islamic finance, which began to develop from the mid-1970s, shows that individuals’ perception of Islamic finance is often weak. In the awareness of the society in the issues related to Islamic finance, because the subject has religious qualities, the duties naturally fall to the diyanet staff. The aim of this study is to identify the perceptions of the Dianet staff about Islamic finance. According to this purpose, the survey was carried out to the dianet staff who worked in the Gaziantep Province and 291 survey data were analyzed. In this study, accordingly, reliability and factor analysis; T and Anova tests were carried out. The results of the analysis found that the average dimensions of Islamic financial perception did not differ according to gender. It has also been shown that the age and the periods of duty in the diyan and the average size of the participants are different. The study found that the dianet staff were very sensitive to the interest prohibition, which is the basic paradigm of the Islamic financial system. However, the participants, regardless of the social structure, do not see the applicability of Islamic finance possible with an understanding that only emphasizes Islamic finance. As a reflection of this, they point out that for Islamic finance individuals should have a strong level of faith and religiousity.

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