Islam Week 2004
Illuminating Islam:
a guide to better understanding


Islamic Economics
presented by 
Dr. Ehsan Ahmed &
Mr. Waleed El-Ansary

Monday, March 29, 7:00 p.m.
Showker Hall, Room G5
Dr. Ehsan Ahmed is head of the Economics Department in the College of Business at James Madison University and has taught at JMU for twenty years.  He has published and presented extensively, including his most recent work on income inequality and the informal economy in transitional economies.  He has also edited two books on Islamic economics. His fields of interest include Monetary Macroeconomics, Applied Econometrics, International Finance and Payments, Development Economics and Islamic Economics.  He earned his PhD from Michigan State University.
Mr. Waleed El-Ansary is an Egyptian American and is a Ph.D. candidate at The George Washington University.  He is currently an adjunct professor of Islamic Economics at the Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences, as well as a research scholar at the Islamic Research Institute, a think-tank based in Washington, D.C.  His research focuses on Islamic and neoclassical economic theories and their implications for law and policy.  His publications include "The Spiritual Significance of Jihad in the Islamic Approach to Markets and the Environment" (forthcoming), "Linking Ethics and Economics: The Role of Ijtihad in the Regulation and Correction of Capital Markets" (co-authored), and "Recovering the Islamic Economic Intellectual Heritage: Problems and Possibilities."

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