Biography
Sheikh Dr. Osama Bahar
Independent Shariah Advisor & Islamic Financial Engineer
Sheikh Dr. Osama Bahar is a distinguished Bahraini Shariah scholar, Islamic financial engineer and independent advisor whose career spans more than three decades of Islamic banking, Shariah governance, financial structuring and institutional advisory.
His work sits where Shariah scholarship, institutional governance and financial engineering converge: reviewing investment transactions for Shariah compliance, developing alternative solutions, restructuring Shariah contracts, preparing research studies, training institutional staff, and representing institutions at conferences and seminars on Islamic investments and banking.
Alongside his advisory practice he has served Islamic education and public understanding for more than three decades — as a preacher through Awqaf at the Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs since 1987, and as presenter and programme developer of Islamic television series for Bahrain Television since 1990.
- Doctorate
- Lahaye University, Kingdom of Holland
- Master's Degree
- Al Emam Al Awzae University, Beirut
- Bachelor's Degree in Islamic Shariah
- Prince Abdul Qader University of Islamic Studies, Algeria
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First Energy Bank
Head of Shariah Compliance & Advisory
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Al Salam Bank
Head of Shariah Compliance
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ABC Islamic Bank
Shariah Compliance Officer
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Shamil Bank of Bahrain
Manager, Shariah Department & Secretary to the Shariah Board
Boards
Board memberships & mandates
Current Shariah supervisory board seats and advisory appointments.
Regulatory & capital markets
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Central Bank of Bahrain
Member, Shariah Supervisory Board
Bahrain Current
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Bahrain Bourse
Shariah Advisor
Bahrain Current
Shariah supervisory board appointments
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Gulf International Bank B.S.C.
Shariah Supervisory Board
Bahrain Current
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Al Salam Bank
Shariah Supervisory Board
Bahrain Current
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Al Salam Bank Algeria
Shariah Supervisory Board
Algeria Current
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Ithmaar Bank
Shariah Supervisory Board
Bahrain Current
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Family Bank
Shariah Supervisory Board
Bahrain Current
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ADCB Islamic Bank
Shariah Supervisory Board
United Arab Emirates Current
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First Energy Bank / Sayacorp
Shariah Supervisory Board
Bahrain Current
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Alizz Bank
Shariah Supervisory Board
Oman Former
Investment, takaful & specialist finance
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Solidarity Bahrain B.S.C.
Chairman, Shariah Supervisory Board
Bahrain Current
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Gulf Islamic Investments
Shariah Advisor
United Arab Emirates Current
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Reef Real Estate Finance
Shariah Advisor
Bahrain Current
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Bahrain Television
Presenter and programme developer, Islamic television series
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Awqaf, Ministry of Justice and Islamic Affairs
Preacher
- Islamic credit card
- Islamic cash financing
- Islamic investment funds
- Conversion of conventional financing into Murabaha structures
- Murabaha
- Mudarabah
- Ijarah
- Istisna'a
- Investment transaction review
- Arabic
- English