Sukuk Securities: New Ways of Debt Contracting

About the Authors

Meysam Safari, PhD, is a senior lecturer at SEGi University, Malaysia. With a scholarship from Khazana Holdings Malaysia, he spent five years researching the topic of sukuk under the guidance of the other two authors at the University Putra Malaysia. He holds an undergraduate engineering degree and a doctoral degree in finance from the University Putra Malaysia.

Mohamed Ariff, PhD, a professor of finance at the Bond University, Australia (and the University Putra Malaysia), is widely considered a specialist on Asian Pacific finance and Islamic finance. He served in 2004–2007 as the elected president of the 26-year-old Asian Finance Association. He is a coauthor of Investments, a leading McGraw-Hill textbook, and has authored or coauthored 33 other books. His scholarly articles have appeared in leading economics and finance journals.

Shamsher Mohamad, PhD, is a professor at the International Centre for Education in Islamic Finance, also known as INCEIF. He has served in various capacities over 31 years, rising to his last position as dean of the economics faculty at the University Putra Malaysia. He has authored or coauthored several books (including Efficiency of the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange and Stock Pricing in Malaysia). He has published scholarly papers in finance journals.