Sep 17, 2024 | Blog, 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...
Mar 5, 2024 | Blog, General
I occasionally get contacted by those considering moving to KSA from the West asking for advice and therefore decided to write a short post on some of the benefits of living in Saudi Arabia especially for Muslims from the West. No place is perfect but overall Saudi...
Mar 4, 2024 | Blog, Islamic Finance General
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...
Mar 4, 2024 | Blog, General
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...
Jun 25, 2023 | Blog, Islamic Finance
I have not been very active writing new posts on this blog due to other commitments. Furthermore, I am now more active on Instagram (@rizqonomics) where I upload short reels and posts. However, I will try to increase my writing frequency here too inshaAllah. I have...
Feb 26, 2022 | Blog, Islamic Finance Resources
The next resource on this list is ‘ الحكم الربوية’ which was written by Dr. Mansoor Alghamdi, who has many years of experience working in the Islamic finance industry and has worked in the Shariah Departments of some of the most prominent Islamic financial...