What is Islamic Economics?

Dr. Umer Chapra served as Research Advisor at the Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). Before joining IRTI in November 1999, he worked at the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), from where he retired as Senior Economic Advisor after a long service of 35 years. He has also taught in the United States at the Universities of Wisconsin and Kentucky and worked in Pakistan at the Institute of Development Economics and the Islamic Research Institute. He has made seminal contributions to Islamic Economics and Finance over more than three decades in the form of 10 books and monographs and more than 70 papers and book reviews. Consequently, he has received a number of awards, including the Islamic Development Bank Award for Islamic Economics, and the King Faysal International Award for Islamic Studies, both in 1989.