Shaykh Haytham Tamim

Shaykh Haytham Tamim

Experienced scholar and advisor for Islamic Finance and Shariah complaint wealth structuring.
 

With a track record assisting Institutions launch Islamic compliant products to serve the Muslim consumers of Europe and the Middle East along with advising funds, families and individuals on shariah related issues including:

- Extensive experience with financial products, product structuring and compliance

- Proven track record performing advisory role on sharia boards and presenting at financial forums

- Breadth of experience in advising international organisations ranging from investment firms, to legal, accountancy firms and their clients on Sharia based planning including succession planning in various jurisdictions.

 
Shaykh Haytham Tamim’s extensive expertise spans over 30 years across the main Islamic jurisprudence schools of thought and different Islamic denominations through highly advanced classical and religious texts.

Studying with some of the foremost scholars in their expertise, he holds some of the highest Ijazahs (certificates) in Quran, Hadith (the prophetic traditions) and Fiqh (Islamic rulings) from Professor Wahba Al-Zuhayli, Professor Mustafa Azami, Shaykh Nizam Yaqoubi and many others. Served as a senior lecturer of Islamic transactions and comparative jurisprudence at the Islamic University of Beirut.

 
- Founder and Director of Shariah Solutions Limited, consultancy firm in Islamic finance

- Shariah board for Inovalis Islamic REIT Funds (2016-2020)

- Member of the British Board of Scholars and Imams (BBSI)

- Mufti of the Sunni Lebanese community in the U.K.

- Vice Chairman of Al-Qalam, advisory panel in Islamic finance

- Advising on Shariah compliant succession planning and wealth structures internationally with law firms including BCLP (2010 to date) ( can we add other advisers? Diana, Collas Crill, anyone else?)

- Executive member of the Shariah Supervisory Board, Gate House Bank, UK (2007- 2011)

- Shariah Board member, for a fund, Gulf Finance House, UK (2009)

- Shariah Supervisory Board, Europe Arab Bank (2009-2011)

- Advisory panel of “The World Retail Islamic Banking Conference”

- Islamic Finance and Banking Advisory Board, University of East London, Centre for Islamic Finance and Banking (2014-2015)

- Advisory Board of The Association of Muslim Lawyers U.K (AML) (2015-16)

Awarded the 2015 BISCA (British imams and scholars contribution award) for Outstanding Contribution to Education and Teaching.

Selected as one of the hundred most influential Muslims in 2019 by Emerald Network