Shariah Supervisory Board
In our efforts to provide the highest standard of service and adoption of international Shariah practices, Amanie Advisors has been appointed to provide local and international Shariah consultancy and advisory services to AIIMAN. Amanie Advisors is governed by its internal Shariah Supervisory Board constituted by the following internationally recognised scholars:
Dr. Mohd Daud BakarDr. Mohd Daud Bakar is currently the Chairman of the Shariah Advisory Council at the Central Bank of Malaysia. Previously, he was the Deputy Rector (Student Affairs and Development) at the International Islamic University Malaysia. Dr. Mohd Daud Bakar is a Shariah board member of various financial institutions, including the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) (Bahrain), the International Islamic Financial Market (Bahrain), the Securities Commission of Malaysia, Morgan Stanley (Dubai) and the Bank of London and Middle East (London) among many others.
Dr. Muhammad Amin Ali QattanDr. Muhammad Amin Ali Qattan has a Ph.D. in Islamic Banking from Birmingham University in the United Kingdom and is a highly regarded Shariah Scholar based in Kuwait. A lecturer and a prolific author of texts and articles on Islamic economics and finance, Dr. Muhammad Amin Ali Qattan is currently the Director of Islamic Economics Unit in the Centre of Excellence in Management at Kuwait University. He also serves as the Shariah advisor to many reputable institutions such as Ratings Intelligence, Standard & Poor’s Shariah Indices and the Al Fajer Retakaful, among others.
Dr. Mohamed Ali ElgariDr. Mohamed Ali Elgari is the Professor of Islamic Economics and the former Director of the Centre for Research in Islamic Economics at King Abdul Aziz University in Saudi Arabia. He is an advisor to several Islamic financial institutions throughout the world, and is on the Shariah board of the Dow Jones Islamic index. He is also a member of the Islamic Fiqh Academy as well as the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institution (AAOIFI). Dr. Mohamed Ali Elgari has written several books on Islamic banking.
Dr. Osama Al DereaiDr. Osama Al Dereai is a Shariah scholar from Qatar, and has extensive experience in teaching, consulting and research in the field of Islamic finance. He received his Bachelor’s degree specialising in the Science of Hadeth Al Sharef from the prestigious Islamic University of Madinah, and his Master degree from the International Islamic University (Malaysia). Later, the University of Malaya conferred on him the Doctorate in Islamic Transactions. Dr. Osama Al Dereai is a Shariah board member of various financial institutions, including First Leasing Company, Barwa Bank, First Investment Company and Ghanim Al Saad Group of Companies, among others.