Muhammad Al-Amine, Muhammad Al-Bashir

(Head - Shari'ah Assurance Dept., Bank Alkhair, Manama, Bahrain) Muhammad Al-Bashir, PhD. is the Group Head of Shari’ah Compliance of Bank Alkhair. Prior to joining Bank Alkhair in 2005, Al-Bashir was the Head of Product Development and Shari’ah Compliance at the International Islamic Financial Market (IIFM). He was also a part-time lecturer at the Faculty of Laws International Islamic University Malaysia; Ibn Sina Institute of Technology (Malaysia); the Matriculation Center International Islamic University (Malaysia), the Bahrain Institute of Banking and Finance; the Kingdom University (Bahrain); and The Open University of Malaysia in Bahrain. Al-Bashir is the author of Sukuk and Islamic Securitization Markets: Financial Engineering and Product Development (Brill,2012) ; Risk Management in Islamic Finance: An Islamic Analysis of Derivatives Instruments in Commodity Markets (Brill, 2008), Istisna (Manufacturing Contract) in Islamic Banking and Finance Law and Practice (A.S. Noordeen, 2001 & 2006) and Islamic Finance and Africa Economic Resurgence: Opportunities and Challenges (forthcoming Islamic Research and Training Institute(IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB) 2014). He has also contributed a number of articles published in international journals.