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Knowledge discovery of zakat administration worldwide from YouTube and Zoom via text mining

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  • Fahmi Ali Hudaefi
  • M. Kabir Hassan
  • Muhamad Abduh
  • Irfan Syauqi Beik

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Purpose - Zakat (Islamic almsgiving) plays a considerable role in dealing with the socioeconomic issues in times of COVID-19 pandemic, and such roles have been widely discussed in virtual events. This paper aims to discover knowledge of the current global zakat administration from virtual events of zakat (e.g. webinars) on YouTube and Zoom via text mining approach. Design/methodology/approach - The authors purposefully sampled 12 experts from four different virtual zakat events on YouTube and Zoom. The automated text transcription software is used to pull the information from the sampled videos into text documents. A qualitative analysis is operated using text mining approach via machine learning tool (i.e. Orange Data Mining). Four research questions are developed under the Word Cloud visualisation, hierarchal clustering, topic modelling and graph and network theory. Findings - The machine learning identifies the most important words, the relationship between the experts and their top words and discovers hidden themes from the sample. This finding is practically substantial for zakat stakeholders to understand the current issues of global zakat administration and to learn the applicable lessons from the current issues of zakat management worldwide. Research limitations/implications - This study does not establish a positivist generalisation from the findings because of the nature and objective of the study. Practical implications - A policy implication is drawn pertaining to the legislation of zakat as an Islamic financial policy instrument for combating poverty in Muslim society. Social implications - This work supports the notion of “socioeconomic zakat”, implying that zakat as a religious obligation is important in shaping the social and economic processes of a Muslim community. Originality/values - This work marks the novelty in making sense of the unstructured data from virtual events on YouTube and Zoom in the Islamic social finance research.

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  • Fahmi Ali Hudaefi & M. Kabir Hassan & Muhamad Abduh & Irfan Syauqi Beik, 2022. "Knowledge discovery of zakat administration worldwide from YouTube and Zoom via text mining," Journal of Islamic Accounting and Business Research, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, vol. 14(1), pages 159-180, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:eme:jiabrp:jiabr-03-2022-0067
    DOI: 10.1108/JIABR-03-2022-0067
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