azerbaijan: emerging market islamic banking and finance
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IIBI NEWS<br />
NEWHORIZON October–December 2008<br />
IIBI awards post graduate diplomas<br />
Momin Ebaad Vaqar<br />
Sami Saeb Matraji<br />
Mohammed Zubair Butt<br />
Said Ali<br />
IIBI’s Post Graduate Diploma (PGD) course<br />
in Islamic <strong>banking</strong> <strong>and</strong> insurance, offered<br />
since 1994 <strong>and</strong> updated in early 2008, is<br />
highly regarded worldwide. UK-based<br />
Durham University has accorded<br />
recognition to this course as an entry<br />
qualification to the University's Research<br />
MA as well as its modules on Islamic<br />
economics <strong>and</strong> Shari’ah-compliant <strong>finance</strong>.<br />
To date, students from 77 countries have<br />
enrolled in the PGD course. In July <strong>and</strong><br />
August 2008, the following students<br />
successfully completed their studies:<br />
❏ Amirali Bakirali Nasir, managing<br />
partner, Nasirs, Hong Kong<br />
❏ Faisal Ali Bugshan, France<br />
❏ Farooque Ahmed Siddiqui,<br />
assistant vice president <strong>and</strong> principal<br />
auditor, Union National Bank, UAE<br />
❏ Gabriela Brust, UK<br />
❏ George Andrew Wattley, lead control<br />
systems engineer, Fluor Ltd, UK<br />
❏ Kamran Iftikhar, branch operations<br />
manager, NIB Bank Ltd, Pakistan<br />
❏ Khalid Mehmood Ghaiba, Pakistan<br />
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Mamdouh Yassin, Switzerl<strong>and</strong><br />
Mubeen Zafar, Pakistan<br />
Mohomad Shamail Annam, senior<br />
business development executive, Amana<br />
Takaful Plc, Sri Lanka<br />
Mohammed Zubair Butt, chair, Al<br />
Qalam Shari’ah Scholars Panel, UK<br />
Momin Ebaad Vaqar, associate director,<br />
IIFL Wealth, UAE<br />
Nafay Al-Alam Choudhury, Canada<br />
Rahat Nadeem, vice president, Allied<br />
Bank Ltd, Pakistan<br />
Said Ali, manager, audit <strong>and</strong> assurance,<br />
Deloitte Kosova sh.p.k., Kosovo<br />
Sameer Mohammad Saeed, Pakistan<br />
Samer MHD DIB Mardini, UAE<br />
Sami Saeb Matraji, deputy manager,<br />
structured <strong>and</strong> international <strong>finance</strong>,<br />
Qatar Islamic Bank, Qatar<br />
Sumaya Bakhsh, UK<br />
Syed Shameem Raza, internal control<br />
unit officer, NIB Bank Ltd, Pakistan<br />
Tarik Rashid, CEO, Tarik Rashid<br />
(Private) Ltd, Pakistan<br />
Yusuf Patel, project manager, Ummah<br />
Welfare Trust, UK.<br />
Kamran Iftikhar<br />
Tarik Rashid<br />
Mohomad Shamail<br />
Annam<br />
George Andrew Wattley<br />
Although I would not regard myself as a beginner in<br />
this field, I found the course both interesting <strong>and</strong><br />
thought-provoking. It is an excellent course for beginners<br />
as well as those who have a good underst<strong>and</strong>ing of<br />
Islamic <strong>finance</strong> because it contains the right balance<br />
between basic information <strong>and</strong> objective analysis of the<br />
interaction between Shari’ah principles <strong>and</strong> conventional<br />
<strong>banking</strong> <strong>and</strong> insurance. I would recommend the course to<br />
financiers, lawyers, bankers, insurers, accountants<br />
<strong>and</strong> academics seeking knowledge in a different principle.<br />
In short, an enjoyable learning experience for which I<br />
would like to thank my tutor <strong>and</strong> the management of the<br />
IIBI.<br />
Amirali Bakirali Nasir, Nasirs<br />
36 IIBI<br />
www.newhorizon-<strong>islamic</strong><strong>banking</strong>.com
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