“Sixty percent of Muslims worldwide don’t know about Islamic finance,” said Mohamed Nouri, a professor of Islamic finance and economy at the European Institute of Humanities in Paris. And Tunisia is no exception. “Basic Islamic financial products like ijara, salam, and murabaha are unknown to most Tunisians.”
The newly-established Council of Islamic Finance in Tunisia (COFIT) held a press conference today to present the association’s activities for 2012 as well as its twelve ad-hoc committees to publicize Islamic finance to Tunisian individuals and financial institutions………………………………………..Full Article: Source