Mairafi, Salihu LimanHassan, SallahuddinArshad, Mohamed Bahrain Shamsul2023-12-102023-12-102018-10-11Abdullah, D.V. (2010). Liquidity management in institutions offering Islamic financial services. In Second Islamic Financial Stability Forum (14). Jeddah. Abedifar, P., Ebrahim, S.M., Molyneux, P. & Tarazi, A. (2015). Islamic banking and finance: Recent empirical literature and directions for future research. Journal of Economic Surveys, 29(4), 637-670. Abedifar, P., Molyneux, P. & Tarazi, A. (2013). Risk in Islamic banking. Review of Finance, 17(6), 2035-2096. Acharya, V. & Naqvi, H. (2012). The seeds of a crisis: A theory of bank liquidity and risk taking over the business cycle. Journal of Financial Economics, 106(2), 349-366. Aebi, V., Sabato, G. & Schmid, M. (2012). Risk management, corporate governance and bank performance in the financial crisis. Journal of Banking and Finance, 36(12), 3213-3226. Ahmed, H. (2011). Product development in Islamic banks. Edinburgh University Press.https://keffi.nsuk.edu.ng/handle/20.500.14448/934This article reviews empirical literature on Islamic banks risk-taking behaviour and point out directions for future research. Extant studies on Islamic banking risk-taking have identified risk associated with the Islamic banking product. The paper discusses different scholar’s findings and highlight areas of concerns. Recent studies focus on risk-taking behaviour with emphasis on area of governance, ownership structures and performance. The paper discusses issues that are important to Islamic banking risk-taking behaviour and discover areas for future research.enIslamic Banking, Risk-Taking Behaviour, Global Financial Crisis.Article