Islamic Finance, Sustainability and Innovation

Ahmet Faruk Aysan is a professor and associate dean of research at Hamad Bin Khalifa University. He has been elected as a full Turkish Academy of Sciences (TUBA) member. He has been the Board Member and Monetary Policy Committee Member of the Central Bank of Turkiye and served as a consultant at various institutions such as the World Bank, the Central Bank of the Republic of Turkey, and Oxford Analytica.Syed Nazim Ali is Director of the Research Division and the Center for Islamic Economics and Finance at the College of Islamic Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa University. Previously, he served as the founding director of the Islamic Finance Program. For three decades, Dr. Ali has led pioneering interdisciplinary research in Islamic finance, faith-based finance, and community development.Abdurahman Jemal Yesuf is an educator, researcher, and advocate of Islamic finance with over 15 years of academic, research, and industry experience in Ethiopia, Turkey, and Qatar. He has served as a consultant, trainer, and assistant professor of Islamic finance, as well as a research fellow at Qatar University and a post-doctoral researcher at Hamad Bin Khalifa University.Muhammad Fazlurrahman Syarif earned his Ph.D. in Islamic Finance and Economy at Hamad bin Khalifa University, supported by a full Qatar Foundation scholarship. Syarif's research interests include fintech, sentiment analysis, social media credit scoring, chatbots, crowdfunding, CBDCs, blockchain, halal economy, sukuk and e-learning. He began his career in Islamic Banking and Finance after completing his MBA in Islamic Banking and Finance at Bangor University and attending Durham Islamic Finance Summer School at Durham University in the United Kingdom. He has been awarded by Qatar Research, Development, and Innovation Council in the Rising Innovators Award at Web Summit Qatar.

• Section 1. Digital Innovation and Technology in Islamic Finance Chapter 1. Understanding the Digital Preparedness and Adoption Amongst Qatari Banks: From Bankers’ Perspective; Abdurahman J, Ala’ Azmi Masoud Abumughli, and Ahmet Faruk Aysan Chapter 2. Digital Innovation Capabilities and Islamic Social Finance Sustainability; Shukurat Moronke Bello and Saifullah Adam Bayero Chapter 3. AI Insight into Islamic Finance: GPT Chatbots and the Shaping of Financial Narratives; Sahibzada Muhammad Hamza and Ahmet Faruk Aysan Chapter 4. Exploring FGN Sukuk as an Alternative and Sustainable Financing Option: A Case Study of Infrastructural Development in Nigeria; Abdul Ibrahim Chapter 5. Analyzing the Use of AI Tools in Scholarly Writing Among Islamic Finance and Other Academic Disciplines: A Case Study from the College of Islamic Studies, HBKU; Muslehuddin Musab Mohammed and Syed Nazim Ali Section 2. Islamic Finance and Social Development/Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Chapter 6. Towards the Realisation of Good Health (SDG-3)-Related Maqāṣid Al-Sharī͗ah Through Waqf: Lessons for Nigerian Universities from USIM’S Experience; Isa Olawale Solahudeen Chapter 7. The Impact of Islamic Finance on Social Equity and Poverty Alleviation; Ahmed bk Chapter 8. The Welfare of Amil: Does It Need Greater Attention in Zakat Management?; Shinta Lintang Nurillah, Yan Putra Timur, and Achsania Hendratmi Chapter 9. The Circular Economy and Sustainable Development in Africa: Islamic Finance and the Transformation of the Rice Value Chain in The Gambia; Fatou Badjie and Karamo Sawaneh Chapter 10. Muslim Women and Zakat: Empowerment through Islamic Social Welfare and Finance; Zainab Farhat and Ismael Ahmed Section 3. Islamic Finance Instruments, Institutionalization, and Models Chapter 11. Projecting the Impact of Financial Inclusion and Islamic Financing on Poverty Alleviation: Insights from Indonesia; M. Fikri HimmawanChapter 12. The Institutionalization of Islamic Finance: Historical Context, Current Developments, and Future Directions; Ahmet Faruk Aysan and Ibrahim Musa Unal Chapter 13. Enhanced Musharakah Mutanaqisah (EMM) Home Financing: A True Partnership-Based Home Financing Model; Alam Asadov Chapter 14. A Fiqh Analysis of Mainstream Fatwas Prohibiting Bitcoin; Essa Al-Mansouri Chapter 15. Empowering Social Welfare Through Zakatech: A Meta-Analysis of Drivers Behind Digital Zakat Adoption; Shatheish Maniam and Muhammad Bilal Zafar