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Camille SIlla Paldi has a BA in East Asian Studies (Honors) from Colgate University, Graduate Diploma in World Politics from the London School of Economics, Juris Doctor in Law from the University of Melbourne, Master of International Law from the University of Sydney, LL.M from the University of Hawaii William S. Richardson School of Law School, MA in Islamic Finance from Durham University, and a Certificate in Inter-Religious Studies from the Graduate Theological Union. Paldi has previously qualified as a lawyer in Australia and New Zealand and successfully completed the UK Qualified Lawyers Transfer Test in June 2013 in London, United Kingdom. Paldi has widely published on Islamic Finance, Holy Book Finance, and Abrahamic Finance in books, journals, and magazines across the world. Paldi is currently a student of Medicinal Plants and Nutrition at Cornell University. She is also an avid learner of foreign languages. Phil Lieberman is Vanderbilt’s specialist in rabbinic literature. He is also an historian of medieval Jewry, particularly Jews in Muslim lands. His research focuses on the social, economic and legal history of the Jewish community of North Africa and the Levant, particularly as documented in manuscript materials from the Cairo Geniza. He serves on the advisory board of the Cairo Geniza Project at Princeton University and is an editor and contributor to The Encyclopedia of Jews in the Islamic World (edited by Norman Stillman). He also edited The Cambridge History of Judaism, volume 5: Jews in the Medieval Islamic World (2021). He joined Vanderbilt’s faculty in 2009 from the faculty of New York University, where he taught classes in Jewish Studies and in Islamic and Middle East Studies. His book, The Business of Identity: Jews, Muslims, and Economic Life in Medieval Egypt, published in 2014 by Stanford University Press, was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award. His The Fate of the Jews in the Early Islamic Near East (Cambridge University Press, 2022) examines Jewish urbanization in Iraq under the early Abbasids (750-1258 CE) and the migration of these Jews to the Islamic Mediterranean. His new translation, with Lenn Goodman of Vanderbilt’s Philosophy Department, of Moses Maimonides’ 12th century philosophical classic The Guide to the Perplexed was published by Stanford University Press in 2024. He has also begun a new project on commercial manuals in the medieval Islamic world. Professor Dr. M. Kabir Hassan is a Professor of Finance in the Department of Economics and Finance at the University of New Orleans. He currently holds four endowed Professorships and the Moffet Chair of World Resources Prices and Economic Development at the University of New Orleans. . Professor Hassan is in the top 2% of cited authors, according to a 2024 Stanford University Survey. According to the 20024 ScholarGPS, Dr. Hassan's research publication puts him #1 in Islam, #110 in Economics, and #343 in social sciences worldwide. Professor Hassan is the 2019 University of Louisiana System Outstanding Educator recipient, the 2019 Life-long Research Achievement Award, and the 2018 UNO Nick Mueller International Leadership Medallion Winner. Professor Hassan is Editor-in-Chief of several scholarly journals published by reputable publishers. Dr. Hassan has won numerous awards from professional academic societies for research and innovative teaching. Hassan was a Senior Fulbright Scholar for 2022-2024. He has served on the AAOIFI AGEB Board since 2020 and is Chairman of the AAOIFI Education Board. Professor Hassan has recently been named Hamid D. Habib Chair of Finance at the Institute of Business Administration, Karachi, Pakistan. Professor Hassan is also an Honorary Professor at the University of Jordan, Jordan. Isaac Lifshitz is an expert on Jewish philosophy and history, with an emphasis on the philosophy of Ashkenaz in the high Middle Ages. He received his rabbinical ordination from Rabbis Yitzhak Kulitz and David Nesher. He earned his Ph.D. in Jewish Thought from Tel Aviv University, and holds an M.A. in Jewish history from Touro College. Author of numerous books, most recently Judaism, Law & The Free Market (Acton, 2012), Dr. Lifshitz has written both scholarly and popular articles on subjects related to Judaism and economics.
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