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Hakan Ozyon is struggling to remember the name of Sheikh Mufti Muhammad Taqi Usmani, the economist who chairs the Dubai-based Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI).
“Sorry, I’m fasting at the moment and haven’t had any coffee,” he says.
Ten more days remain until Ramadan ends and Muslims can celebrate eating and drinking between dawn and dusk again. “You know how people get drunk on beer? We get drunk on sweets,” he jokes.
Ozyon, the chief executive at Melbourne-based Hejaz financial services, has more to look forward to than sugar. After the success of his firm’s Islamic investing services over the past few years, Hejaz has set up its own AFSL and is looking to roll out a financial planning offering to the Australia’s growing Muslim community.