Islamic Law News
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The civil war in Syria has produced an unexpected consequence: The Comedie-Francaise, France’s most prestigious theater, has decided to stage the work of a Syrian author -- the first by an Arab in its 333-year history.
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The First Investor QSCC, the investment banking unit of Qatar’s Barwa Bank QSC, raised about $390 million of Islamic financing to fund construction of Washington’s CityCenterDC project.
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Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has been in tighter spots: He was thrown in jail for alleged Islamism, saw his last political party closed down and survived a showdown with the once all-powerful Turkish military.
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Goldman Sachs Group Inc., whose shariah-compliant bond program was questioned by Islamic scholars in 2011, led its first sukuk in more than three years after helping a Saudi property developer raise $450 million.
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The International Islamic Financial Market, a Bahrain-based standards-setting body, issued global guidelines that will provide a universal reference point for Shariah-compliant contracts banks can use to manage funds.
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The political party led by Imran Khan formed a government in Pakistan’s militancy ravaged northwest, where his call for an end to army offensives against the Taliban and U.S. drone strikes resonated with voters.
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A U.S. drone attack yesterday killed the deputy chief of the Pakistani Taliban, who allegedly was involved in the 2009 suicide attack on a Central Intelligence Agency outpost in Afghanistan that killed seven Americans, according to a U.S. official.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he’ll appoint a new special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, after a dispute over oil revenue between the newly separated states brought them to the brink of war last year.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he’ll appoint a new special envoy to Sudan and South Sudan, after a dispute over oil revenue between the newly separated states brought them to the brink of war last year.
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London police probing British soldier Lee Rigby’s murder last week in broad daylight made their 10th arrest as the government vowed to review its powers to counter extremist groups.
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