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Sheikh Dr. Osama Bahar

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.

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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

  1. –

    First Energy Bank

    Head of Shariah Compliance & Advisory

  2. –

    Al Salam Bank

    Head of Shariah Compliance

  3. –

    ABC Islamic Bank

    Shariah Compliance Officer

  4. –

    Shamil Bank of Bahrain

    Manager, Shariah Department & Secretary to the Shariah Board

  • Bahrain Television

    Presenter and programme developer, Islamic television series

  • 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