Islamic finance at Harvard

The Islamic Finance Project (IFP) was founded by the Harvard University is America’s oldest university and one of the most respected centers of higher education and research in the world, attracting an array of talented students and scholars from across the globe. After about eight years of association with
the CMES, the IFP came under the patronage of the Islamic Legal Studies Program (ILSP) at Harvard Law School in 2003. As the only Ivy League project of its kind, the IFP studies the field of Islamic finance from a legal perspective by analyzing contemporary scholarship, encouraging collaboration among scholars within and outside of the Muslim world, and increasing the interaction between theory and practice in the Islamic finance industry.