As Islamic banks boom, scholars are hard to find
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The green-fronted Kuwait Finance House Auto mall on Bahrain's main showroom highway is a bank that sells cars.
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COLOGNE, Germany -- On Muslim holidays, hundreds of faithful hoping to pray at the city's Ditib Mosque are forced to spread their prayer rugs in a nearby parking lot and follow the service on loudspeakers. The mosque holds only 600 people.
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In the Middle Ages, many Islamic scholars were women. Will their rediscovery have an effect on Muslim women today?
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Once, the Thakur of Mandawa lorded it over the merchants of his parched Silk Road region. Today, the heir to that title needs a little help from those merchants-turned-moguls
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There is no unified voice speaking for Muslims, most experts on Islam claim, often regretfully.
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Distinctions between local economies are being overridden by a mortgage market that has made it more difficult for many would-be homebuyers to obtain financing.
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Abdul Taufiq is an avid reader of personal finance, subscribing to business magazines and exploring financial websites. But when he wanted to apply some of this advice to his portfolio, he ran into problems.
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Many U.S. banks have made it harder for creditworthy borrowers to obtain a mortgage, according to a Federal Reserve survey released yesterday that underscored the spread of the credit crisis.
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The internal debate over political violence in Islamic cultures is swelling, with suggestions that the problem lies in the way Islam is being interpreted.
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Law lecturer Saldi Isra was little known outside the confines of his university three years ago when he first asked the government of his province, West Sumatra, for a copy of its budget.
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BANI NAIM, West Bank -- Of the many troubles that the economic slide has brought to this town on the edge of the Judean Desert, Jihad Manassrah saw none more threatening than the growing number of single women walking in prim pairs through its narrow streets.
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A one-time jihadi looks at why so many radical Islamic groups include doctors and engineersâand how their involvement threatens the religion itself.
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KARACHI, Pakistan - It started with a robbery, but the gang that burst into a branch of Al-Habib Bank in this teeming port city had no interest in striking it rich, and the university graduate driving the getaway car was just getting started on a master plan for terror.    The heist, carried out in daylight and with AK-47 assault rifles, is emblematic of a new brand of Islamic militant - more educated but less established and largely cut off from traditional sources of terror funding, Pakistani police and intelligence officials told The Associated Press...
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The UK's first stand-alone Islamic High Street bank,  aimed at the UK's 1.8 million Muslims opens in London on Wednesday.
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Twenty years ago, Boston Private Financial Holdings Inc. was an upstart wealth manager in a city that birthed some of country's oldest financial institutions. Now it's a scrappy competitor that has bought nine other firms in seven years and has an appetite for more. At the company's center is Boston Private Bank, which focuses on lending to the ultra-wealthy. Boston ...
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TONGI: Muslims crammed buses, trains and boats to travel to a riverbank near the Bangladeshi capital for a three-day annual Islamic congregation that began on Friday.
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The debate over violence in Islamic cultures is swelling, with suggestions that the problem lies in the way Islam is being interpreted.