Mufti Faraz Adam

Mufti Faraz Adam is the premier Islamic finance mufti in the UK right now. He holds strong traditional credentials with a six-year Alimiyyah degree at Darul Uloom Leicester, UK and a 2-year Iftaa specialisation course, where he became a Mufti under the tutelage of the world renowned Mufti Ebrahim Desai. He also holds a Masters Degree in Islamic Finance, Banking and Management from Newman University and has attained various finance-industry qualifications. To add to this, he also has an MBA Diploma from the International Business Management Institute and completed a Fintech Specialisation course at the University of Michigan. He has also completed an ACCA Level 4 Qualification in Accounting and Business. His professional qualifications include the IFQ and CIFE, CIAE, and he is a Certified Shariah Advisor and Auditor (CSAA). He is currently doing his PhD on developing a Shariah governance framework for Artificial Intelligence. We at IslamicFinanceGuru have worked closely with him on our Fatwa Forum and have found him to be erudite, quick-witted, and deeply knowledgeable of the traditional Islamic sources. You will see that reflect in his answers on the Fatwa Forum too. He is at the forefront of the industry as the founder and CEO of the internationally recognised Shariah advisory firm, Amanah Advisors. His role includes advising multiple Islamic financial institutions across the world, with clients in the UK, US, Canada, Malaysia, Singapore, UAE, among others. His passion lies in the growth of the Islamic economy, contributing across various sectors including Islamic banking, Islamic capital markets, Takaful, SME financing, and Islamic social finance. Mufti Faraz also enjoys writing and research. He is the author of several books and research papers, including 'Introduction to Islamic Fintech' and 'Zakat Made and Easy'. Lately, he published a groundbreaking publication called 'Prophetic Finance and Economics'. This variety of experience puts him in a truly unique position of seeing the cutting-edge of Islamic financial progress daily. An experienced teacher, in this course, he distils down all his experience for you. And its not just us saying that either. Every one of his students we have heard from gives glowing accounts. Here's just one: "And who else than Mufti Faraz to teach such a manual, mingling intelligently classical and contemporary evidence, with acute examples of transactions taken from his ground work among the industry experts." Anass PATEL – Co-founder of Conexcap Finance (Paris)