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Scholars inside the Azhar are split over a project proposed by a businessman to have a stock exchange dealing in currency, a system of economic activity that is new in Egypt and Arab and Islamic countries, amidst arguments as to whether the proposal runs counter to the sharī‘a.
Some economists have discussed the influence of religion on economics. They say that the weak economy of the Muslim countries is due to their religion. But the economist Marcos Noland of the International Institution for Economics in Washington says that Islam encourages development. Many people...
Next month, Karachi, the Pakistani trade capital, will host an international conference on Islamic banking systems and financial markets.
Dr. Muhammad Shahrour, the Syrian Islamic thinker was interviewed by Rose al-Yousuf and affirmed that the religious institutions in the Arab World - like the Azhar in Egypt, [and the Shi’ite centers in] al-Najaf in Iraq, and Qom in Iran – are still conservative with tools of knowledge that did not...
Sheikh Youssef Al-Qaradawi calls people to deposit their money in Islamic banks even if they are inadequate in some aspects. He criticized the Sheikh of the Azhar for saying that loaning at fixed interest rate is halal. The article shows the inadequate aspects of Islamic banking as explained by Al-...
Majdī Khalīl criticizes Muslim extremists who he believes are leading the Arab and Muslim world to backwardness and preventing them from keeping up with modernization.
The author argues that Islamic banks exploit Muslims’ piety.
Suhīr Jouda writes of how Islamic investment companies swindled people in the name of religion.
As regards democracy-citizenship, the writer argues that it is of the utmost importance to work on lessening the gaps between the classes as much as possible. He hopes that the forthcoming parliamentary election will offer a favorable opportunity to have all social strata represented in the People’...
Al-Ahrām has interviewed a number of Muslim scholars in an attempt to unearth some of the reasons for the underdevelopment of the Muslim world.

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