Coverage and data quality
Most comparison sites show you what they have and never mention what they are missing. This page is the opposite: the gaps, counted, so you can judge how much weight to put on any given page.
Cards indexed
480
55 withdrawn cards also kept
Contract named
390
81%
Profit rate published
334
70%
Source document linked
455
95%
Market by market
A low figure in the last three columns usually means the bank does not publish, not that we did not look. Where that is the case the card page says so explicitly.
| Market | Cards | Contract | Rate | Source doc |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United Arab Emirates18 issuers | 101 | 96 (95%) | 91 (90%) | 99 (98%) |
| Malaysia27 issuers | 88 | 87 (99%) | 87 (99%) | 87 (99%) |
| Saudi Arabia12 issuers | 111 | 96 (86%) | 65 (59%) | 93 (84%) |
| Pakistan17 issuers | 8 | 8 (100%) | 7 (88%) | 8 (100%) |
| Indonesia4 issuers | 10 | 10 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 10 (100%) |
| Qatar5 issuers | 38 | 32 (84%) | 29 (76%) | 38 (100%) |
| Kuwait5 issuers | 35 | 9 (26%) | 17 (49%) | 32 (91%) |
| Bahrain7 issuers | 10 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 9 (90%) |
| Oman7 issuers | 22 | 20 (91%) | 22 (100%) | 22 (100%) |
| Bangladesh23 issuers | 38 | 25 (66%) | 8 (21%) | 38 (100%) |
| Türkiye7 issuers | 11 | 0 (0%) | 3 (27%) | 11 (100%) |
| Brunei2 issuers | 6 | 6 (100%) | 5 (83%) | 6 (100%) |
| United Kingdom11 issuers | 1 | 0 (0%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (100%) |
| South Africa6 issuers | 1 | 1 (100%) | 0 (0%) | 1 (100%) |
What banks most often refuse to publish
Counted across every card we hold. This is a useful list in its own right: it is a map of what the industry would rather you did not compare.
- Maximum age481 cards
- Minimum income390 cards
- Over-limit fee350 cards
- Reward caps319 cards
- Minimum age318 cards
- Takaful cover284 cards
- Annual profit rate269 cards
- Shariah certificate243 cards
- Monthly profit rate231 cards
- Documents required209 cards
Coverage is honest, not complete
We do not claim to have every Islamic credit card in the world. We claim that what is here is traceable to a source, and that where it is not, the page says so. How we verify.