Islamic Banking & Retail Customers

Over the past few years, Islamic Banking on a retail level has become more and more standardised in many Muslim countries due to a greater involvement from market regulators and standard setting bodies.  Within some jurisdictions the differences between the...

Africa & Islamic Finance

The maternal side of my family have been settled in Africa for over 100 years and I spent 8 years of my life living there. Here are 5 reasons why I believe that Islamic Finance (not solely Islamic banking) has a huge potential in Africa. 1) There exists large Muslim...

New Beginnings

After being away from home/family, studying & working for the most part of the past 18 years, and after an amazing 6 years in Riyadh, I have made the difficult decision of moving back home to focus on some other personal projects and to be closer to family. I will...

Importance of Youth Mentoring

I recently met a Senior Shariah Scholar from KSA. During our discussion he asked me an interesting question: which one person influenced me the most to go abroad and seek religous knowledge when I was younger. Without any hesitation I mentioned a name to him. I was...