Islamic Finance News- KUWAIT: Boubyan Bank developing new headquarters building in Kuwait city
- SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi Real Estate Company secures Islamic financing worth SAR100 million (US$26.65 million) from Saudi British Bank
- UAE: Central Bank of UAE investigates alleged violation of Anti-Money Laundering and Combat of Financing of Terrorism laws by Pakistani bank
- JORDAN: IsDB to partly finance 22 projects in Jordan
- NIGERIA: Nigeria’s Jigawa government secures US$37.37 million facility from IsDB
- UAE: aafaq Islamic Finance picks Infosys Finacle’s Finacle Core
- ITALY: New IFN correspondent for Italy
- GAMBIA: Gambia secures US$30 million from IsDB and Arab Bank for Economic Development in Africa
- MALAYSIA: MARC affirms ‘MARC-1IS’ and ‘AA-IS’ ratings on Northport’s Islamic commercial paper program and Islamic medium-term note program
- JORDAN: Fitch affirms Jordan Islamic Bank’s long-term foreign currency issuer default ratings at ‘BB-’
Tag Archives: Evolution
The Scientific Method & Faith-Based Worldview
Salman Ahmed Shaikh In simple words, science is knowledge established by observation and experimentation through an objective process. Science tries to disentangle useful knowledge about the matter so that this knowledge can be put to effective use. For the physical … Continue reading
Need for Meaning to Existence
Salman Ahmed Shaikh The twentieth century can well and truly be regarded as the century of modern science. Science has made us understand the physical world better and to make the ever-more effective use of matter around us. The comforts … Continue reading
Complex Life on a Knife’s Edge
Salman Ahmed Shaikh In his book, ‘A Brief History of Time’, Stephen Hawking writes: “If the rate of expansion one second after the Big Bang had been smaller by even one part in a hundred thousand million million, it would … Continue reading
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Science and Meaning of Life
Salman Ahmed Shaikh Stephen Hawking has recently died after living a difficult life physically, but one which was highly productive in terms of intellectual journey and contributions. While acknowledging the tremendous value of the contribution of Stephen Hawking in Cosmological … Continue reading
