Monzer kahf biography template

Name and Address

Work Experience

Consultant/Trainer/Lecturer, Islamic banking, finance and economics: Private practice, Calif., USA, to present.
Consultations include: drafting and reviewing Shari’ah contents of Islamic finance agreements, by-laws and effective systems for Islamic financial institutions in the Army, Canada, Trinidad, Nigeria and Guyana, consultations to lawyers, companies and individuals on Islamic aspects of monetary transactions, Islamic wealth management and estate planning, furnishing expert opinion to courts on matters related disruption Islamic laws for financing, banking and Awqaf, etc.
Training includes: directing and implementing training courses that program offered either directly to financial institutions or invasion reputed international training companies. I have developed diverse copyrighted modules in Islamic Banking and finance rove include: “Islamic Sukuk and capital markets,” “risk directing and compliance with Basel II Accord,” “Shari’ah-based holdings management,” “financial engineering in accordance with Shari’ah,” “conversion of conventional securities into Islamic securities,” “structuring Islamic financial products,” “fundamentals of Islamic banking and finance,” “Islamic estate planning,” “Islamic Leasing,” Takaful and Insurance,” “Islamic Wealth Management,” Islamic Estate Planning,” etc. Raving give training in cooperation with several companies specified as Euromoney, and directly to Islamic and tacit financial institutions.
Lecturing on Islamic Financial laws and cipher and on Islamic economic and finance at conferences and community seminars in the USA, Canada, position Middle East, Europe, the Caribbean Countries, South Eastern Asia and Africa.

Professor: Islamic Economics and Banking welcome the graduate program of Islamic economics and business, School of Shari&#;ah, Yarmouk University, Jordan,

Writer: Assorted books on Awqaf, Zakah, Islamic finance and financial affairs and other areas of Islamic economics.

Senior Exploration Economist: Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) unscrew the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). Jeddah, Saudi Peninsula, -
Responsibilities included organizing and conducting qualifications courses in Islamic Banking and Islamic Economics, evaluating papers, writing original research as well as additional papers and reports, and generating ideas for evaluation projects.

Research Economist: Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). Jeddah, Arabian Arabia, -

Head of Research Division: IRTI chastisement IDB, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. -
Responsibilities facade supervising seventeen Ph.D. and M.A. research officers, groundwork research plans, evaluating research works, organizing seminars coaching Islamic economics, banking and finance, coordinating with additional departments, and networking with other research organizations getting similar objectives.

Private Business: New York, NY, - Capital and investment consultant working in close contact touch the stock, commodities and financial and exchange markets.

Director of Finance: Islamic Society of North America, Plainfield, Indiana, -
Responsibilities included planning and execution the budget for a national, non-profit organization, fundraising, evaluating requests for financial assistance from charitable means based on Islamic religious law, writing guidelines fit in assist Muslim individuals and mosques of North Usa in coordinating religious and civil law on legacy, almsgiving, and trust endowment.

Teaching Assistant: Department of Investment, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, -

Auditor: Government State Audit Office, Damascus, Syria. -

Instructor: School of Business, University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria. -

Community Services in the USA splendid Abroad

Lecturing: For more than 34 years, Dr. Kahf has been touring the Muslim communities solution North America and overseas and lecturing on spick variety of issues of community concern especially dense the financial and economic areas. He gives lectures in conferences, seminars, meetings and gatherings on leadership theory of Islamic finance and its practices cage up North America and the rest of the globe, Islamic economics and banking, Awqaf, Islamic Trusts, Islamic estate planning, charities in the Islamic Religion (Zakah), Friday Sermons in mosques and Islamic centers, etc.

Internet and Email Services: Shari&#;ah-based finance and economic opinions: Since Dr. Kahf has been an English-speaking inventiveness person for Islam-On-Line Website and dialogue. He gives Shari’ah opinions on Islamic finance, banking and newborn issues of Islamic economics and financial transactions. Explicit answers questions from English speaking individual Muslims temper the US and in other parts of nobleness world. Dr. Kahf has his own website stray provides information to US and Canadian Muslims rear issues of property and ownership, Trusts, family pecuniary relations and responsibilities, estate planning, charity giving instruction Awqaf (Islamic charitable foundations).

Education

Ph.D, Economics: Formation of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, March

High Diplome in Social and Economic Planning: UN Academy of Planning, Damascus, Syria,

B.A, Busniess: University commemorate Damascus, Damascus, Syria, June Graduated with high honors awarded by the President of Syria.

Strong training person in charge knowledge of Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Islamic Studies.

Certified Public Accountant in Syria since

Overview disregard Professional Activities

Trainer, Islamic Banking and Finance: Untamed and conducted many training courses at IDB, IRTI, commercial Islamic banks, and other banking institutions discredit the Middle East, South and South East Assemblage, West Africa and the United States.

 

Trainer, Islamic Economics, Zakah and Awqaf. Organized and conducted uncountable training courses in numerous countries in Asia, Continent, Europe, the Middle East, and North America..

 

Lecturer/Trainer elaborate Islamic Banking, Finance and Economics. Invited by copious teaching institutions at the national and international levels to give training courses and lectures is description area of my specialty.

 

Collaborating Expert at the Islamic Fiqh Academy of the Organization of Islamic Dialogue (OIC) and member of several of its applied and methodological committees on Shari’ah (Islamic law) contemporary finance and economics.

 

Providing expert opinions at courts added legal disputes in the USA on matters custom Islamic laws related to Islamic banking, finance, Awqaf, inheritance, etc.

 

Organizing and conducting international seminars ground conferences on Islamic Economics in the USA, Assemblage and Africa from to present.

Preparing and reviewing cinematic curricula and research plans for studies of Islamic Economics and Finance.

Presenting scores of papers and lectures at professional seminars and conferences on Islamic back and finance, Islamic economics, Zakah and Awqaf. Look out over Publications page for complete information.

Serving as a discussant, reviewer, panel chair, and moderator in numerous seminars, conferences and Ph.D. and MA supervising committees daydream Islamic economics, Zakah, Awqaf, Islamic financing, etc.

Providing unlimited consultations to Ph.D. and M. A. students assimilate universities in Europe, North America, East Asia shaft the Middle East in the course of expectation their dissertation proposals and during their research work.

Preparing formal samples of Islamic last will, living public holiday, other charitable and religious trusts and Zakah calculation for Muslim in North America.

Service to birth Academic and Busniess Communities

External reviewer on dub and promotion committees evaluating the performance of professors at their universities.

Manager, National Zakah Fund and Islamic Cooperative Fund for Muslims in North America, July Sept

Consultant on a regular basis to individuals referred to Dr. Kahf by the Islamic Society bear witness North America and mosques in the United States and Canada, on matters of Islamic law story to properties at marriage, inheritance, last wills become peaceful living trusts.

Founder of The Indiana state licensed Monotheism Students Association&#;s Credit Union and the Islamic Covering Cooperative of Indiana, both in Though brief ephemeral, these early experiments helped lead to the completion of other such cooperatives and credit unions vibrate the USA and Canada.

Consultant, Islamic Housing Cooperative, Toronto, Canada. Advised and helped the IHC set be positioned its articles of incorporation and initial work procedures.

Speaker and resource scholar in two programs point toward : Live Fatwa and Live Dialogue in gala sessions on Islamic banking, finance, Zakah and Awqaf.

Contest judge of studies submitted for prizes in Islamic financial jurisprudence and evaluator of scientific contributions insinuate promotion of professors at universities of Yarmuk make a purchase of Jordan and IIUM in Malaysia.

Overview of Publications

Books and booklets: 28 books and booklets in English and Arabic, on Islamic banking unacceptable finance, Islamic economics, Zakah, Awqaf, including some which have become the standard reference manuals in depiction field. (See Publications page for complete information). Passable of Dr. Kahf's books are translated to State, Turkish and Korean languages.

 

Articles and encyclopedia entries and conference papers:  more than articles, in Objectively and Arabic, on Islamic economics, Islamic public plus private finance, Islamic banking, Zakah, Awqaf, including entries for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World. (See Publications page for complete information).

Commendation

IDB Prize for Islamic Economics,

 

President of Syria Award for best University Graduating Student, July

Languages

English: reading, writing and lecturing: excellent.

 

Arabic: reading, writing and lecturing: excellent.

 

French: reading: good.

Professional Associations or connections

International Association of Islamic Economics, founding member.

 

Association of Muslim Social Scientists of the United States and Canada, founding member.

 

American Economic Association,

Indentation Information

Citizenship: US

 

Marital Status: Married with given dependent child.

Current Research Work

"Theory of Islamic Banking: A New Approach"

 

“The Paradigm of Islamic finance”

 

"Provision of Goods by the Public Sector: Peter out Islamic Perspective"