Financing the Poor: Towards Islamic Microfinance

The Islamic Finance Project (IFP), under the auspices of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, seeks to foster cooperation between academic and applied knowledge experts in order to confront the most pressing issues that the Islamic finance industry faces today. To that end, IFP has held numerous conferences, workshops, and other events on a broad range of pertinent issues. The symposium entitled Financing the Poor: Towards an Islamic Microfinance brought together a diverse and international group of speakers from both the microfinance and Islamic finance sectors. Chaired by Professor Baber Johansen, it provided a great opportunity for a distinguished panel of speakers such as Robert Annabelle, Shaykh Nizam Yaquby, Michael Ainley, Samuel Hayes and others to share their experiences and offer their expert opinions on potential collaborative moves.