Dr. Abdullah Q. Turkistani is Associate Professor in the Economics Department at the University of King Abdulaziz, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. He is also the Director of the Islamic Economics Research Center at the same University since 2006. The Centre was established in the early 1970s and has made an immense contribution to the academic development in the field, as most of the founding fathers of Islamic economics and finance have worked in the Centre in the past. Dr. Turkistani has published in economics and Islamic finance related areas; and delivered lectures on the same subject in various parts of the world. He was instrumental in the establishment of the Centre for Islamic Economics at the IE University, Madrid, Spain and also in the establishment of a Chair in Islamic Economics and Finance at Sorbonne University, Paris, France.