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Cobalt develops a Shari'a-based insurance policy. London, Reuters—London-based firm Cobalt has developed a Sharia-compliant insurance platform that uses a syndication model to help spread risk across a panel of underwriters, a novel format that ...

Nawaz Sharif has established himself as the most successful politician in Pakistan's history. It's not just that he has won an unprecedented third term as prime minister. He has also survived sustained corruption allegations, periods of deep ...

The al-Qaeda international terrorist network has set up a sharia court in Aleppo to consolidate its power in Syria. Today, 21:53 German engineering and electronic staff continue industrial action Employees of the German engineering and electronic ...

A- A A+ National flag carrier Garuda Indonesia signed a loan agreement with Kuwait-based aviation lease and finance company Alafco on Monday to finance new aircraft that will help strengthen the airline's international network. The agreement was ...

An Afghan inmate watches from behind a barred window during a media event at a women's prison in Kabul March 30, 2010. Image Credit: REUTERS/ Omar Sobhani Twelve years on from the ousting of the Taliban and its barbaric laws, Afghanistan remains a ...

The BBC has rejected a complaint from the Islamic Sharia Council in Leyton East London after it was featured in the Panorama programme about the treatment of women in sharia arbitration bodies. Panorama had accused the Council of ruling on cases ...

A SHARIA law scholar has sparked outrage after asking an investigator posing as a battered wife: "Does your cooking upset your husband?" A Sharia Islamic court in Nigeria Dr Suhaib Hasan told the undercover reporter that she should only contact ...

A young Saudi man faces being forcibly paralyzed as a punishment under Islamic sharia law for a crime that left his victim confined to a wheelchair a ruling condemned by a human rights group Thursday. Ali al-Khawaher, 24, was convicted of stabbing a ...

MUSCAT — The Sharia Supervisory Board of Meethaq, the pioneer of Islamic banking in Oman from Bank Muscat, conducted its first meeting of 2013 under the chairmanship of Shaikh Dr Ali Qaradaghi, in the presence of Shaikh Essam Muhammad Ishaq and ...