ABSTRACT
The current study aim is to compare the impact of the Coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic on the profitability between each of the Islamic and conventional banks, whereas the profitability of banks was measured through the (ROA), (ROE), and (EPS) indicators for the years 2019 and 2020. However, the researcher followed the inductive method and the descriptive-analytical method in this study, knowing that the study sample consisted of 10 Islamic banks and 10 conventional banks located throughout 5 Arab countries. The most important results of the study were the presence of a negative impact of the Coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic on the profitability of all the banks of the study sample, but the Islamic banks, the study sample, were less affected compared to the conventional banks, also, the study recommended the need to conduct a comparative study between the performance of Islamic and conventional banks. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.