We argue that the different features of the Islamic banking model, as being a relatively young industry with recent rapid growth, might influence the magnitude of investor sentiment impact on its market returns differently from its conventional counterparts. Using Google-search-query-based investor sentiment and turnover measures and market data over the period 2006?2017, we find that Islamic banks are more sensitive to fluctuations in investor sentiment than their con-ventional counterparts located in the same country for Bahrain, Egypt, Malaysia, Kuwait, Jordan, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia...
