University Paris IX Launches Sharia-Compliant Islamic Finance Master’s Degree

University Paris IX Dauphine will launch a sharia-complaint Islamic Finance program beginning in October 2009 – a topic deemed unknown and promising. Elyès Jouini, the director of Dauphine’s Institute of Finance (IFD) claims that “the demand from non-Islamic financial institutions who wants to train their collaborators in these methods for their Muslim clients is growing.”

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Muslims in European peace drive

A groundbreaking conference for young Muslims from across Europe is taking place in Switzerland. Delegates from seven countries have been brought together by the organisation Initiatives of Change, which has a long history of promoting peace on the continent. In the late 1940s, it brokered meetings between those who had been on opposite sides in…

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