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barriers and enablers, economic development, and gender issues in
women entrepreneurship. This shows the progress in the trend of
womenpreneurs literature since the earlier literature focuses more on
the negative aspects of women entrepreneurs (Raman et al, 2022).

Rodrigues et al (2022) had addressed the limited numbers of literature
and studies published on mompreneurs although the concept of
mompreneurs and womenpreneurs had already emerged and were
active in the entrepreneurship industry. From the study, the biggest
issue faced by womenpreneurs, especially mompreneurs, is the
balanced life between work and their family. Mompreneurs express
regret and dissatisfaction for leaving their careers behind, but many
also feel bad about not spending more time with their kids. This
emphasises how important it is for moms to strike a balance between
their personal and work lives. Notwithstanding study, little is known
about the difficulties experienced by mothers who want to run their
own businesses in addition to being mothers. As they develop creative
spaces to combine their personal and professional lives, mothers and
the business world are faced with a new issue as a result of this
transformation (Rodrigues et al, 2022).

However, focusing on literature and research on Zakat and Waqf the
numbers are lesser. Zaaba and Hassan (2021) has pointed out the small
and limited number of literatures on zakat and waqf that are published.
For zakat, only sixty-three works of literature were published in
Malaysia in 11 years from 2009 until 2020. This is a relatively small
number compared to Malaysia's continuous and positive progress of
Islamic finance and Islamic social finance. Atan and Johari (2017) also
conducted the same bibliometric study on the number of literatures on
waqf-related studies and found that there were 289 articles published
on waqf in the period of 10 years from 2006 to 2016. It is found that
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