...relatively obscure, new specialty of international finance. But after Wall Street’s implosion, Islamic finance’s champions have begun to promote the…
Faith in Islamic finance
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Islamic finance
The New York Times‘s Hillary Brenhouse explores the proliferation in European and American higher education of courses and degrees in…
Islamic finance undergoes test in Dubai
...listen to a podcast from livemint.com featuring an introduction to the fundamentals of Islamic finance by Zafar Sareshwala, the head…
Goldman’s foray into Islamic finance
Goldman Sachs is facing new controversy, this time in the Islamic world. Goldman, the first U.S. bank to venture into…
Islamic finance and the Western cult of money
In the London Review of Books, Jeremy Harding writes about how Islamic finance differs from the Western cult of money:…
Islamic feminism
...cannot subsist on its own and that it must be allied with a form of Islamic feminism. In her most…
Is Islamic finance safe?
...chief executive of Qatar Financial Center Regulatory Authority, told Reuters. “It’s a myth for anyone to assume anything about financial…
Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law: Dhimmis and Others in the Empire of Law
In his new book, Religious Pluralism and Islamic Law, Anver Emon discusses Islamic legal doctrines and their implications for religious…
The Islamic State’s intellectual genealogy (and what you need to read to understand it)
Graeme Wood’s “What ISIS Really Wants,” published in The Atlantic in February 2015, sparked a massive debate. The controversy concerns…
Islamic feminism
At Common Grounds News Service, Amal Mohammed Al-Malki writes about the distinction many Islamic feminists make between Islam and Muslims:…