AMMAN, July 29 (Reuters) - Net profits at Jordan Islamic Bank , the country's largest Islamic lender, dropped 28.9 pct to 14.68 million dinars ($20.7 million), the bank's financial statements showed on Thursday.
Islamic group says a fire, hateful graffiti and racial slurs have taken place during a short period of time at the Dar El-Eman Islamic Center..
Yields on Islamic bonds from the Persian Gulf are climbing even as rates on regular debt decline, after four defaults in the past 16 months prompted investors to demand higher returns.
Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank provides $50m facility to Gulf Marine
Iran has faced waves of international sanctions since the Islamic revolution in 1979, but what effect have they actually had on the country and its economy and trading behaviour?
As the result of the Islamic Revolution in 1978-79 Iran witnessed the massive and unprecedented transformation of the most stable and the most pro-Western country into a virulently anti-American and anti-Israeli state. Massive demonstrations in the streets of Tehran and other cities led to the collapse of the 36-year reign of Mohammad Reza Shah and the 58-year reign of the two Pahlavis. -Farhang ...
"I don't understand it," she said to me. "We're Americans, too. Why don't they see the good of what we're doing." She was Daisy Khan, who with her husband Iman Faisal Khan are leaders in the movement to open the Cordoba Islamic Cultural Center in New York City.
28 July 2010 Net Profit at AED 787 million in Q2 2010 is higher than Q2 2009 by 2%.Net Profit at AED 1,707 million for the first six months of 2010 is 12% higher than the same period of 2009.Operating Income at AED 3,126 million for the first six months of 2010 is 19% higher and Operating Expense at AED 514 million is 7% lower than the same period last year.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, who is currently visiting Cairo, and the leaders of Gaza-ruling Islamic Hamas movement announced on Thursday that they rebuff the resumption of direct peace negotiations with Israel.
Boubyan Bank KSC, an Islamic lender in Kuwait, reported a second-quarter profit 1.4 million dinars after a loss in the same period last year, according to a statement on the Kuwait Stock Exchange Web site today.
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The KSE KSE has been the long time problem child of the Gulf Co-Operation Council (GCC), the economic and political union of which Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates and Oman are members.
Iran's sophisticated, energy-rich economy is increasingly coming under control of the secretive Revolutionary Guards, the BBC's Mark Gregory writes.
The total tonnage handled in Saudi ports during the first half of 2010 amounted to 72.7 million tons, an increase of 6.88% compared to the same period last year, when imports have increased by 24.17% and exports decreased by 4.12%.
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