Start from Zero and Learn how to set up an Islamic Microfinance Institution  and Become Certified  Islamic Microfinance Practitioner 

~2 Months of Complete Course, 8 Modules, 30 hours of learning 

  • Endorsed by Akhuwat - World’s largest interest-free microfinance organization.
  • ​Study at your own pace! (flexible learning)
  • ​Combination of live and recorded classes
  • Interact with instructor and peers
  • Language: English
  • Prerequisite: No prior knowledge required
  • ​Personalized support
  • Access to Mobile App & Digital Learning Platform, learning anytime from anywhere!
  • ​Course contents:  20 Lectures + 4 Working Sessions, Reading Materials + Practical exercises + Final Project
  • Price: AED1000  (Multiple payment options available including credit card )
Course Introduction
What You Will Learn
  • Shariah Compliance in Islamic Microfinance; Products and Application
  • Holistic Overview of Devleopment Economics
  • ​Knowledge of Indigenous Community Models of Finance
  • ​Managing Risk in Islamic Financial Products and Instruments
  • Comparative Historic References and Analysis of Islamic & Conventional Microfinance Solutions
  • How to Integrate Fund Management into Strategic Community Development 
  • Is Islamic Microfinance an Effective Tool for Developmental Economics & Financial Inclusion?
  • Limitations of Microfinance for Economic Growth
Become a Certified Islamic Microfinance Practitioner (CeIMP)
Start your Journey and Master your skills as an Islamic Microfinance Professional.

You already have a conventional finance or economics background and want to understand the key differences between Conventional Microfinance and Development Economics? Do you want to gain applied knowledge in Islamic Microfinance? This course will help you learn both the theoretical and practical application aspects.  


Key Benefits
  • ​Aspiring future Islamic Bankers can gain knowledge to apply for opportunities in Islamic Microfinance Institutions
  • ​Take your place in a growing Islamic Microfinance industry
  • ​Start your own Waqf Fund for your community’s development and self-sufficiency
Dr.  Amjad Saqib, founder of Akhuwat  (endorsement)
Course Value 
  • Endorsed by Akhuwat - World’s largest interest-free microfinance organization.
  • ​Learn while interacting directly with the course instructor 
  • Gain theoretical knowledge with real-life practical example and practices
  • Gain a holistic overview of development economics
  • Unlimited access to course class recordings, material, and exercises for 1 year 
  • Learn how to integrate Islamic and conventional practices for starting a community fund
  • Learn community activation and mobilisation processes 
  • Practical group working session & project submission 
  • Earn a certificate after course completion and final exam
  • ​Access to Mobile App & Digital Learning Platform access to learn anytime from anywhere!
Course Topics
  • Course Introduction - Live session with Course Instructor 
  • History of Microfinance 
  • Principles of Microfinance 
  • ​Introduction to Microfinance
  • Islamic Financing Principles and their Application ​
  • Comparison between Conventional & Islamic Microfinance 
  • Challenges and Issues 
  • Role of IMFI's for Community Mobilisation
  • Case Studies of Existing IMFI's
  • ​Starting your own Waqf or Community Fund 
Who should enroll?
Student, Early or Mid-Career Professionals
Gain extensive knowledge on the need for Islamic Microfinance for community development and social mobilisation
Islamic Finance & Economic  Professionals
Upgrade your knowledge in an innovative and disruptive way to integrate Shariah-compliance methodology with a global language/understanding  

New Leaders
Learn practical tips on initiating a community development fund from a Shariah-compliant perspective 
About Dr. Aneeqa Malik
  • 6 years association with Trans4m Communiversity & Da Vinci Institute, South Africa
  • 3 years’ experience of strategizing global outreach of Akhuwat Foundation as their lead researcher in Soulidarity (Mawakhat) Economy
  • Published Author of Integral Finance
  • 10 years’ experience in community mobilisation
  • ​Course Lead for CLAD (Community Learning, Activation & Development)
  • ​Member of Integral Finance and Economics Research Communiversity
  • ​Founder of Integral Soulidarity Research Academy (iSRA)
  • ​Action Learning & Research Facilitator (ILM /SSE)
  • ​Transformation Management Process Facilitator
Community Finance, Integral Finance & Economics, and Islamic Economics Research expert with over six years’ experience. Outstanding communication, classroom management, and presentation skills from different research institutions. 

Dr. Aneeqa Malik is a published author, economic philosopher and likes to call herself an economic mystic and activist. She is a trained Action Learning Training & Research Facilitator and a Transformation Management Consultant working closely with Trans4m Communiversity Associates (TCA) as their Managing Partner. She assists TCA’s world-wide communities by bringing in her Eastern Sufi impulse to economic fold. TCA, as a Communiversity (university without walls) takes a unique take on unlocking the potential of societies in their own cultural context by initiating a process of societal regeneration through their Trans-doctoral and PHD (Process for Holistic Development) programs.

During her PHD research she coined the term Soulidarity, a soulful impulse for societal and human subsistence. This is why she likes to call herself a So(u)lidarity Process Facilitator and a stewardess for societal transformation and social innovation having multi-functional experience in a wide variety of business/enterprise sectors. Her Soulidarity Economic model is a model for communal self-sufficiency and how communities can generate their own reciprocal endowment for socio-economic well-being. She is in the process of setting up a Chair for Integral Soulidarity Economy in Islamic context at Da Vinci Institute, South Africa, along with her TCA colleagues for their African Centre for Integral Research & Design (ACIRD).

Her first book; Integral Finance: Akhuwat - A Case Study of the Solidarity Economy has been published by Routledge as part of Trans4m’s Transformation and Innovation series. The book is co-authored by Aneeqa Malik as TRANS4M Fellow and Dr Amjad Saqib, founder of world’s largest Qard-e-Hasan (benevolent loans) organisation; Akhuwat Foundation, aiming to alleviate abject poverty from Pakistan by providing interest-free loans to micro-entrepreneurs.

She, along with her colleagues, has initiated various processes of Community Activation Learning & Development (CLAD) programs, in Pakistan, South Africa and Zimbabwe.


AED 1000 

  • Unlimited review of course recordings and supplementary material for 1 year
  • Assignment review, grading, and feedback
  • Hands-on interaction with Dr. Aneeqa Malik
  • Prestigious certificate of completion
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