Underreported: Islamic Finance

www.wnyc.org:Find out about the growing trend of Islamic finance – banking and investing based on the Koran – and how it’s faring in the current global economic crisis. Journalist Carla Power is and author of the Jan./Feb. Foreign Policy magazine article "Faith in the Market." Listen to the Audio:

Advancements in Contemporary Islamic Finance: from practice to scholarship

This is a presentation made by Usman Ahmed, Citigroup CEO of Global Islamic Banking, and Shaykh Nizam Yaquby, an Islamic Sharia scholar.Listen to the Audio

Mufti Taqi Usmani Audio on Islamic Finance (English)"

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This an udio of Mufti Taqi Usmani on Islamic Finance.And below is the biography of the Shaykh:

Justice (R) Allama Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani (Uthmani) (Arabic/Urdu: محمد تقی عثمانی) is an eminent Hanafi Islamic scholar from Pakistan who has served as a judge on the Shariah Appellate Bench of the Supreme Court of Pakistan from 1982 to 2002 and as a judge of the Federal Shariat Court of Pakistan from 1980 to 1982. He held a number of positions on the boards of prestigious Islamic institutions. Usmani received his Takhassus degree in Islamic education, equivalent to a PhD, from Darul 'Uloom Karachi in 1961. He also holds a master’s degree in Arabic literature from Punjab University and a bachelor of laws (LLB) degree from Karachi University. He pioneered the concept of Islamic banking in Pakistan when he introduced Meezan Bank which works on the same principles.