| Islamic Banking and Financial Crisis: Reputation, Stability and Risks Habib Ahmed is the Sharjah Chair in Islamic Law and Finance at Durham University. Prior to joining Durham University in August 2008, he worked at the National Commercial Bank and Islamic Development Bank (IRTI) in Saudi Arabia and taught at the University of Connecticut, National University of Singapore, and University of Bahrain. Mehmet Asutay is Reader in 'Middle Eastern and Islamic Political Economy and Finance' at the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University, and he is also the Director of the Durham Doctoral Training Session for Islamic Economics and Finance. He mainly teaches and researches Islamic Political Economy and Islamic Finance subjects. Asutay supervises masters and doctoral research on various aspects of Islamic moral economy and finance, political economy of the Middle East and economic development related subjects. Rodney Wilson was the founder of the Islamic Finance Programme at Durham University. Recently he has served as a Visiting Professor at the Qatar Faculty of Islamic Studies and the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance in Kuala Lumpur. |