The College of Graduate Studies at Kuwait University hosted the visiting expert, Prof. Osama Mohammed Al-Hamwi, to evaluate the Master’s program in Islamic Finance, in the presence of Vice Dean for Academic Affairs, Prof. Mishari Al-Aifan, Acting Vice Dean for Planning and Development, Dr. Mohammed Raef Al-Samawi, Head of the Department of Sharia and Islamic Studies, Prof. Ibrahim Al-Badawi, Director of the Islamic Finance Program, Prof. Khaled Aba Al-Safi Al-Mutairi, and Prof. Saleh Al-Ali.
At the onset, visiting expert Prof. Osama Al-Hamwi expressed his appreciation for being hosted by Kuwait University to evaluate the Islamic Finance Master’s Program, emphasizing the strength and importance of this program in comparison to other programs that were previously established at other universities.
He pointed out some important observation to enrich this program positively, given its importance to the countries of the world in general and Kuwait in particular, and according to the needs of the local labor market. The most prominent of these proposals are: adding the modern companies course, amendments to the penalty clauses in some academic courses, decentralized contracts to describe the Islamic finance jurisprudence course, especially if they are applied with artificial intelligence applications and taught to some graduate students, the importance of teaching the (Principles of Jurisprudence) course to non-students of the College of Sharia and Islamic Studies, and that the program be one program with a thesis, and last but not least, accepting all higher diploma students in the Islamic Finance Master’s program.
 

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