Dr. Muhammad Omar Farooq did his PhD from University of Tennessee and M.A. in Applied Economics from UCF College of Business. He had been associated with University of California as Post-Doctoral Fellow. He worked as Assistant Professor of Economics at Western Illinois University and later as Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at Iowa Wesleyan College. For a long time, he also worked as Associate Professor of Economics and Finance at Upper Iowa University. Currently, Dr. Farooq is an Associate Professor with the Department of Economics and Finance at University of Bahrain. We got an opportunity to get his insights on Islamic economics and finance and hope that these insights will introduce new ways of thinking for young economists and social scientists aspiring to contribute in this field.