Profile
United Arab Bank Islamic Banking caters for the needs of retail, corporate and investment banking clients with a wide range of Shari'ah compliant innovative products and services. The credibility and strength of these products and services are endorsed by the UAB Islamic Banking Internal Shari'ah Supervisory Committee.
The Internal Shari'ah Supervisory Committee is entrusted with the duty of providing advice and procedures relating to individuals and company transactions to ensure that the UAB Islamic Banking etiquettes are consistent with the principles of Islamic jurisprudence.
UAB Islamic Banking Internal Shari'ah Supervisory Committee (ISSC) comprises leading & prominent scholars in the field of Islamic commercial jurisprudence. The current members of UAB Islamic Banking ISSC are:
Sheikh Moosa Tariq Khoory
Chairman and Executive Member of Internal Shariah Supervisory Committee
Sheikh Dr. Moosa Khoory is currently a member of various Sharia boards and committees in a number of Islamic banks, Takaful companies and a financial market entity in the UAE. He is also the Founder of the ‘Sharia Professionals Association’. Sheikh Moosa is the former Chairman of the Internal Sharia Audit Committee (ISAC) at UAE’s Banks Federation (UBF), and a former member of AAOIFI’s Governance and Ethics Board and AAOIFI’s Education Board. He is also an Islamic financial arbitrator and a member in a couple of schools’ Board of Governors and universities’ Consultancy Councils in the UAE. He holds a PhD in Islamic Finance from Durham University, and dual Master’s degrees in Islamic Law & Legal Theory from University of Sharjah and Masters in International Business Law from Paris 2 University.
Sheikh Dr Aziz bin Farhan Al Anzi
Member of Internal Shari`ah Supervisory Committee
Sheikh Dr. Aziz Al Enezi was born in Saudi Arabia in 1967. He is a PhD holder in Islamic Jurisprudence from King Saud University in Riyadh. He is also a member of Sharjah Permanent Board of Fatwa, Shari’ah consultant for Awqaf Department in Sharjah, member of Supreme Board of Promulgation of Awqaf Law in Sharjah, Chairman of the Arbitration Board of Sharjah Institute for Holy Quran and Sunna, Chairman of the Academic and Da’wah Board at Sheikh Hamdan Heritage Center in Dubai, and Sharjah Electricity & Water “Rahma” Committee. He is also an associate lecturer at Shari’ah College, University of Sharjah, Al Qasimia University of Sharjah, Dar Al Ber of Dubai, and Sharjah Police Academy. He is an author of many books such as: Conclusion of Disposal of Ill-Gotten Funds, Provisions of Occupation and Its Eff¬ects in Islamic Jurisprudence, Issues of Scholarly Consensus related to Will and Inheritance, and many other books besides several books being under printing.
Sheikh Mohd Bahroddin Badri
Sheikh Mohd Bahroddin Badri is Principal Consultant and Head of Shariah Advisory at ISRA Consulting, INCEIF, leading his team to provide Shariah advisory services to various stakeholders in Islamic finance. He has been involved in numerous Shariah consultancy projects across the globe including Europe, South America, Middle East, North Africa, Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and Oceania. Prior to joining ISRA-INCEIF in 2012, he served as an academic at the International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM) for nearly a decade. He holds a Master’s degree in Shariah (Economics) from the University of Malaya and a Bachelor’s degree in Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Heritage (Fiqh and Usul al-Fiqh) from IIUM. He is a Fellow of AAOIFI Certified Shariah Adviser and Auditor (CSAA) and ASAS Certified Shariah Advisor (CSA). He is also the Chairman of the Shariah Advisory Committee of MBSB Bank Berhad, Chairman of Shariah Committee Swiss Re (Retakaful), Deputy Chairman of Shariah Supervision Committee of Siraj Finance Abu Dhabi UAE and Shariah Committee Member of KOPSYA. Previously, he was the Deputy Chairman of Shariah Committee of Citibank Malaysia and Shariah Committee Member of Citibank Labuan. His notable contributions to the Islamic finance industry include developing Shariah-related Policy Guidelines (Shariah Standards) and Shariah-compliant Schemes issued by the Malaysian regulators and co-authoring two textbooks on Islamic finance: “Islamic Financial System: Principles & Operations” (2nd Ed) and “Sukuk: Principles and Practices” He has also spoken and participated in various international conferences worldwide, including Turkiye, Canada, Morocco, Oman, Indonesia, Brunei, and Singapore, among others, to spur the development of Islamic finance globally.
Syah Nazrin Hashim
Head of Shari’ah Control and Secretary to the Internal Shari’ah Supervisory Committee
Syah Nazrin holds a Bachelor’s degree in Shariah from Yarmouk University, Jordan and was also conferred with dual Master’s degrees in Islamic Jurisprudence and its Legal Theory (Fiqh and Usul Fiqh) and Masters of Laws (LLM) from International Islamic University in Malaysia under the Central Bank of Malaysia’s Scholarship Award.
He is a Certified Shariah Advisor and Auditor by Accounting and Auditing Organization for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) as well as a Shariah professional banker with over 13 years of global banking experience. He currently holds the position of the Head of Sharia Control and the Secretary to the Internal Shariah Supervisory Committee (ISSC) of United Arab Bank (UAB). He is also a member of Association of Shariah Advisors in Islamic Finance (ASAS) and had successfully completed the Certified Qualification in Islamic Finance (CQIF) programme from Islamic Banking & Finance Institute Malaysia (IBFIM). Prior to joining UAB, he worked in the world’s largest Islamic banks, Al Rajhi Bank and Dubai Islamic Bank (DIB).
