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The Islamic Finance Project (IFP) is the continuation of the Harvard Islamic Finance Information Program (HIFIP), which was established by the Center for Middle Eastern Studies in 1995. IFP is now part of the Islamic Legal Studies Program (ILSP) at Harvard Law School. It aims to study the field of Islamic finance from the legal and shari'a points of view by analyzing contemporary scholarship, inducing collaboration among scholars within and outside the Muslim world, and increasing the interaction between theory and practice in Islamic finance....Continue |
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EIGHTH HARVARD UNIVERSITY FORUM ON ISLAMIC FINANCE
Innovation and Authenticity April 18-20, 2008
The Eighth Harvard University Forum on Islamic Finance was held at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on April 18-20, 2008.
The Forum and Pre-forum Workshop featured over 40 speakers, including the Keynote Speech
delivered by Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton, John and
Natty McArthur University Professor at Harvard Business School, Forum Speech
by M.Umer Chapra, an adviser to the Islamic Development Bank research arm,
Islamic Research and Training Institute in Jeddah., and the banquet address by Dean Bill A Graham, Dean of Harvard Divinity School.
The Forum explored the themes of innovation and authenticity in Islamic Finance and the Pre-forum Workshop was devoted to Microfinance:
Towards a Sustainable Islamic Finance Model.
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