“…The conventional developing (Ertugrul & Ozturk, 2013;Musa Gün, 2018;Tokmakçıoğlu et al, 2018;Mensi et al, 2014;Mishra, 2016;Mensi et al, 2023;Bagchi and Paul, 2023;Bhargava et al, 2023) and developed (Aman, 2019;Benigno, 2016;Shahzad, 2018;Lou & Luo, 2017;Habibi &Lee, 2019;Zhang et al, 2023) markets are the subject of several investigations. However, studies on the Islamic stock market gets less attention than those on the conventional stock market (Aloui et al, 2015;Naifar, 2016Kumar & Sahu, 2017;Shahzad et al, 2017;Ozcelebi et al, 2023. This study builds on existing studies to explore whether country-based (exchange rate, CDS) and global financial factors (VIX, MSCI world index) influence Islamic stock returns of developing (BRIC) and developed (G7) markets.…”