Islamic banking draws new interest from West

A recent article on Islamic banking from Al-Monitor looks at the relationship between politics and Islamic banking. According to Al-Monitor, “Islamic finance experience can be seen as a humane financial and banking jurisprudence, which can be criticized and reviewed, as well as distanced from politics.”

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Britons ‘liable to Sharia divorces’ in UAE

August 5, 2014 The Foreign Office has warned expatriates living in the United Arab Emirates they could face Sharia courts in divorce or child custody cases. UAE personal status law provides expatriates, even if they are not Muslim, with the right to have their case heard under the Islamic law. It comes after a British…

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5 Myths About Sharia Law

The problem with discussing Sharia law in the U.S is that very few people seem to know what they are talking about, as Dr. Sherman Jackson, one of the foremost experts on Islamic law in the U.S., points out. Myths about “creeping Sharia” and the take-over of Islamic law abound. Far from anything of this sort…

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Court rejects Islam-influenced post-marital agreement

I have long argued that American courts should deal with Islam-related religious issues by simply applying existing American law, without any special rules either favoring or disfavoring Islam or Muslims. Sometimes that means Muslim claimants might win, for instance when they claim reasonable religious exemptions under existing American religious exemption rules (which are available to…

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