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Guest CV
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Dr. Monzer Kahf
Educational background
- Ph.D, Economics. University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, March 1975.
- High Diploma in Social and Economic Planning: UN Institute of Planning, Damascus, Syria, 1967.
- B.A., Business. University of Damascus, Damascus, Syria, June 1962. Graduated with high honors awarded by the President of Syria.
- Strong training and knowledge in Islamic Jurisprudence (Fiqh) and Islamic Studies.
- Certified Public Accountant in Syria, since 1968
Employment Experience
Research Economist: Islamic Research and Training Institute (IRTI) of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB). Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 1985 – August 1999.
- Responsibilities included organizing and conducting training courses in Islamic Banking and Islamic Economics, evaluating papers, writing original research as well as other papers and reports, and generating ideas for research projects.
Head of Research Division: IRTI of IDB, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. July 1989 - Feb 1991.
- Responsibilities included supervising seventeen Ph.D. and M.A. research officers, preparing research plans, evaluating research works, organizing seminars on Islamic economics, banking and finance, coordinating with other departments, and networking with other research organizations having similar objectives.
Private Businessman: New York, NY, Sept 1981 - June 1985. Financial consultant.
Director of Finance: Islamic Society of North America, Plainfield, Indiana, Aug 1975 - Sept 1981.
- Responsibilities included planning and executing the budget for a national, non-profit organization, fundraising, evaluating requests for financial assistance from charitable funds based on Islamic religious law, writing guidelines to assist Muslim individuals and mosques of North America in coordinating religious and civil law on inheritance, almsgiving, and trust endowment.
Teaching assistant: Department of Economics, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Sept. 1971 - June 1975.
Auditor: Government State Audit Office, Damascus, Syria. May 1963 - March 1971.
Instructor: School of Business, University of Damascus in Damascus, Syria. 1962 - 1963.
Publications
Books and booklets. More than 25, in English and Arabic, on Islamic banking and finance, Islamic economics, Zakah, Awqaf, including some which have become the standard reference manuals in the field.
Articles and encyclopedia entries. More than 70, in English and Arabic, on Islamic economics, Islamic public and private finance, Islamic banking, Zakah, Awqaf, including entries for the Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World.
Publications in English
BOOKS
1. The Calculation of Zakah for Muslims in North America. Plainfield, Indiana: Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), third revised edition, 1998.
1. Planning Charitable Giving, Plainfield, Indiana: ISNA, 1998.
2. Last Will and Testament for Muslims in North America, Plainfield, Indiana: ISNA, second revised edition,1998. Considered the standard reference manual in the field.
3. Editor, Lessons in Islamic Economics: Proceedings of the Seminar on Orientation in Islamic Economics in Dhaka August 1991. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: IRTI, 1998 (two volumes).
4. Editor, Economics of Zakah. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: IRTI, 1997.
5. Instruments of Meeting Budget Deficit in Islamic Economics. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: IRTI,1997.
6. Co-editor, International Economic Relations From Islamic Perspective, with M. A. Mannan and Ausaf Ahmad. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: IRTI/IDB (seminar proceedings), 1993.
7. Zakah Management in Some Muslim Societies. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: IRTI/IDB, 1993.
8. Principles of Islamic Financing: A Survey. Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: IRTI, 1992, with Taquillah Khan
9. Translator, Fiqh al Zakah by Shaikh Yusuf al-Qardawi. King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia: Center for Research in Islamic Economics.
10. The Islamic Economy: Analytical Study of the Functioning of the Islamic Economic System. Plainfield, Indiana: The Muslim Students' Association of the United States and Canada, 1978. (Translated into Turkish, Indonesian and Korean).
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