An international financial body, the Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) has appointed the Chief Imam, Al-Fur’qan Mosque in Kano, Sheikh Dr. Bashir Aliyu Umar, member of its newly reconstituted Shariah Board of the organisation.

SolaceBase reports that Sheikh Dr. Bashir Aliyu Umar is among the 22 reconstituted members of AAOIFI Shari’ah Board for the 2024-2028 term appointed last week.

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The decision to appoint them was adopted at the apex international Standard Setting Organisations for the Islamic Finance Industry board meeting, held at its headquarters in Bahrain.

AAOIFI, established in 1991 and based in Bahrain, is the leading international not-for-profit organization primarily responsible for the development and issuance of standards for the global Islamic finance industry.

Dr Bashir was a former Special Adviser to CBN governor, on Islamic Banking, under Muhammadu Sanusi II.

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Also, he was a former Kano State Sharia Commission, Commissioner and member Kano State Pilgrims Welfare Board, during the administration of Malam Ibrahim Shekarau

Those appointed include,

1. Sh. Abdul Rahman Al-Atram

2. Sh. Abdullah bin Sulaiman Al-Manea

3. Sh. Abdullah Mohammed Al-Mutlaq

4. Sh. Abdur Rahman Al Zuwaini

5. Sh. Abdur Rahman As Sannosi

6. Sh. Dr. Ahmad AlHaddad

7. Dr. Ashraf Hashim

8. Sh. Dr. Aznan Hassan

9. Dr. Bashir Aliyu Umar

10. Prof. Dr. Ertuğrul Boynukalın

11. Sh. Esam Ishaq

12. Sh. Ibrahim Al Dhareer

13. Dr. Mufti Irshad Ahmad Aijaz

14. Sh. Kahlan AlKhoraisi

15. Sh. Dr. Layachi Fedda

16. Sh. Prof. Dr. Mohamed Ali Elgari

17. Sh. Mohammed Taqi Al-othmani

18. Sheikh Dr. Mubarak Jazaa Al-Harbi

19. Sh. Nizam Mohammed Yaquby

20. Sh. Dr. Osaid Al-Kilani

21. Sh. Walid bin Hadi

22. Prof. Waryono Abdul Ghafur