It gives me very great pleasure indeed to be invited by my dear brother Dr Muhammad Syafii Antonio the Head of Tazkia University College of Islamic Economics to deliver this address at the 11th convocation. I have been requested to speak on the role of higher learning institutions in the development of Islamic finance. This is a very appropriate topic for this occasion when the Islamic Finance landscape has made tremendous progress within a short period of about four decades and is facing various challenges that need to be addressed if we want to bring it to the next level. Let us first serf the current landscape of Islamic finance.
The slides highlight: 1) the development of Islamic banking and finance in Malaysia; 2) problem of over emphasizing banking and finance and ignoring economics; 3) Islamic economics objectives; 4) development of Islamic economics as a field of knowledge.
