Dr. Mohammed Nurul Alam, Associate Professor of Accounting and Islamic Banking (MBA) in the School of Graduate Studies, hold a Ph.D. (in Islamic Finance from Lund University, Sweden and Masters in Accounting from University of Chittagong, Bangladesh.). His research dissertation was on “Small Business Finance by Islamic Banks,” which was carried out through the framework of Lund Institute of Economic Research, a division of the School of Economics and Management.

(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).

Egyptian, Ph.D. - Commercial Law From the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, 1967. Experience: Mobil Oil Egypt, translation Section, 1958-1959. First National City Bank of New York, Cairo Branch, 1959-1961. National Bank of Egypt as Banker and sometime later as Senior legal adviser, 1961-1975. Professor at Cairo University, Khartoum Branch, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Commerce 1972-1973. Professor at Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco (for civil and commercial law), 1975-1982. Professor at Mohamed I University, Oujda, Morocco, 1985-1986.

Egyptian, Ph.D. - Commercial Law From the Faculty of Law, Cairo University, 1967. Experience: Mobil Oil Egypt, translation Section, 1958-1959. First National City Bank of New York, Cairo Branch, 1959-1961. National Bank of Egypt as Banker and sometime later as Senior legal adviser, 1961-1975. Professor at Cairo University, Khartoum Branch, Faculty of Law and Faculty of Commerce 1972-1973. Professor at Mohamed V University, Rabat, Morocco (for civil and commercial law), 1975-1982. Professor at Mohamed I University, Oujda, Morocco, 1985-1986.

Dr. Waleed El-Ansary is the Helal, Hisham and Laila Edris El-Swedey University Chair in Islamic Studies at Xavier University, where he teaches courses on comparative religion, Islamic studies, and religion and science. He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic and Religious Studies from George Washington University and M.A. in Economics from the University of Maryland. His research focuses on the intersection of religion, science, and economics. He has authored numerous publications, including “Islamic Environmental Economics and the Three Dimensions of

Born in 1935 in Iraq, Al-Alwani received his high school diploma from Al-Azhar in 1953 and received his bachelor's from the College of Shari’ah and Law at al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt in 1959. He continued at the college and earned a master's degree in 1968 and a doctorate in Usul al-fiqh in 1973. Following his undergraduate studies, Al-Alwani returned to Iraq and became a lieutenant in the Iraqi Military Reserves.