Sukuk: Economic and Jurisprudential Perspective: A Short Report

As a follow-up to the workshop on tawarruq held on February 1, 2007 on the London School of Economics campus, the Islamic Finance Project (IFP), a project under the auspices of the Islamic Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School, and the London School of Economics (LSE) decided to work together again to gather a group of influential Islamic legal scholars, economists and bankers for a workshop on sukuk, instruments that have attained considerable prominence in Islamic finance. The goal of the workshop is to conduct an in-depth examination of sukuk, while furthering the conversation between fuqaha and economists begun in earlier IFP workshops.