Shari‘a Advisor, Islamic Research Training Institute, Islamic Development Bank; Jeddah, Saudi Arabia Layachi Feddad has been working as a shari‘a expert at the Islamic Research Training Institute of the Islamic Development Bank for the last 10 years. He has done extensive research in the area of application of shari‘a to the finance sector. Feddad graduated from Ummul Qura University with Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in shari‘a and later with a Ph.D. in Islamic Economics from the same university.