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  1. Shari’ah Has ‘priority’ in Islamic Finance Cases
  2. Bringing Together Shari’ah and Common Law in Malaysia
  3. Fiqh Academy Must Make Thorough Study of Issues
  4. Time for UAE to Rethink Dollar Peg
  5. BBA Judgement Erroneous, Rules Court of Appeal
  6. Need For Deeper Look Into Islamic Financial Products
  7. ISDA Writes Global Standards for Islamic Derivatives
  8. Malaysia Budget 2010: Government To Issue USD887 Million 1Malaysia Sukuk
  9. Islamic bank loses millions in New Zealand investment
  10. The Happy Planet Index As an Alternative to The Human Development Index
  11. Consultation on the legislative framework for the regulation of alternative finance investment bonds (sukuk): Summary of Responses
  12. Islamic finance industry stunted by lack of expertise
  13. Dubai Financial Services Authority Consults on Islamic Finance Rules in the DIFC
  14. Call to review interest in court judgements
  15. Islamic Development Bank announces plans to launch investment bank
  16. Islamic Banking – Reality and Myth
  17. Abercrombie and Fitch Faces a Muslim-Headscarf Lawsuit
  18. Sharia advisers may face legal suits over mistakes
  19. Islamic Finance Can Also Face Systemic Failure and Reputation Risks: Abbas Mirakhor
  20. Sum of USD350 billion lost by Gulf sovereign funds: UN Report
  21. Only 1 in 4 Malaysia Federal Territories companies pay business zakat
  22. Happy Eidulfitri 1430H
  23. Benign Islamic Finance
  24. Supervising Islamic Finance
  25. National Shari’ah Board versus Bank Shariah Boards
  26. My Story: Happy Birthday
  27. Rise of The Two Schools of Islamic Finance
  28. IDB sells first Islamic bond tranche for USD500m
  29. Top 100 Islamic banks defy recession woes as combined assets grow 66%
  30. Malaysia Independence Day
  31. Korea to exempt Islamic bonds from distributions tax
  32. Central Bank of Malaysia Bill 2009
  33. E-Lecture on Uqud in Islamic Financial Services
  34. Luxembourg Stock Exchange becomes an important European centre for Sukuk
  35. Best Wishes for Holy Month of Ramadhan al-Mubarak
  36. Registration of Shari’ah Advisers Guidelines by the Securities Commission of Malaysia
  37. Malaysian regulator simplifies syariah advisers rule
  38. Constructive and Positive Suggestions Rather Than Negative Criticism
  39. World’s First Shari’ah-law Compliant Legal Firm
  40. More Saudi family firms in trouble
  41. Islamic finance principles to restore policy effectiveness, By Professor Willam Buiter
  42. Dubai Islamic Bank Q2 falls 40% and Commercial Bank of Kuwait Q2 net loss at $8.2 mln
  43. Commentaries on the IFSB Exposure Draft Guiding Principles on Shari’ah Governance System
  44. Five former senior officials from the Islamic Finance Company have been sent to prison.
  45. Integration Of Islamic Finance Should Be Facilitated Across Jurisdictions
  46. First Islamic bank in Australia?
  47. ISRAEL ATTACKS JUSTICE BOAT; KIDNAPS HUMAN RIGHTS WORKERS; CONFISCATES MEDICINE, TOYS AND OLIVE TREES
  48. No debt sales, no progress for Islamic finance
  49. Boardroom Overhaul in the Middle East
  50. TAWARRUQ: A Methodological Issue in Shari`a-Compliant Finance
  51. Does Islamic finance need for an “Islamic Goldman Sachs”?
  52. Arab nations ’need to revert to gold dinar’
  53. Full Text of Obama’s Speech in Cairo.
  54. Islamic finance industry has suffered less turmoil than western institutions
  55. Is Islamic Finance the Answer?
  56. Thought Leadership Series, Islamic Finance and Corporate Governance: My Interview
  57. Organized Tawarruq is NOT permissible: OIC Fiqh Academy
  58. Credit Crunch: A Chance to develop the Islamic Finance Market in Germany?
  59. Islamic banks take share of the pain
  60. UK Budget 2009 Removes Tax Hurdles for Islamic debt
  61. Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia dan “Markah Kasihan”: My Thought
  62. Where the USD5 Trillions is coming from?: Remarkable Analysis by Rodney Shakespeare and Max Keiser
  63. In Person With Aamir Rehman, a Head of Strategy for Fajr Capital
  64. Bringing Together Shari’ah and Common Law in Malaysia
  65. Interview With Dr. Mohamad Daud Bakar, a renowned Shari’ah Scholar
  66. Malaysia’s Court of Appeal reverses High Court BBA ruling
  67. Islamic finance must learn to resolve inner tensions
  68. France and Hong Kong encourage Islamic finance
  69. Vatican Position on Islamic Finance
  70. Global Financial Crisis: Can Islamic Finance help?
  71. Authenticity in Islamic Finance
  72. Sharia-compliant derivatives – a contradiction in terms?
  73. The Social Contract: A Must Know Document for All Fellow Malaysian
  74. My Story: A Journey Begins
  75. My Thought: Perak Constitutional Conundrum
  76. Promoting Shari’ah-compliant finance violates the United States Constitution: In the Case of Kevin J. Murray v Henry M. Paulson, Jr
  77. Speculation and uncertainty are the Devil
  78. My Recent Publication
  79. A True Story
  80. The United States Promotes Israeli Genocide Against the Palestinians
  81. Islamic Finance News Award: Poll 2008
  82. Gaza: Let the Images Do the Talking
  83. Israel Resumes Bombardment of Gaza
  84. SHARI’AH AND LEGAL ISSUES IN AL-BAY’ BITHAMAN AJIL FACILITY IN THE CASE OF ARAB-MALAYSIAN FINANCE BHD V TAMAN IHSAN JAYA SDN BHD & ORS [2008] 5 MLJ
  85. Conference Alert 2009
  86. A Shariah Compliant Alternative to Selling Short with Borrowed Securities by Shaiykh Yusuf Talal De Lorenzo
  87. Financial Screens for the Islamic Finance and Lesson from the Ethical Investment Industry
  88. Shari’ah Scholars and Harmony in Short Supply
  89. Islamic Finance in the UK and France
  90. My Story: Palestine Solidarity Campaign
  91. The very recent case of Arab-Malaysian Merchant Bank Bhd v Silver Concept Sdn Bhd [2008] 6 MLJ 295 and Launching of My New Web Page
  92. Islamic Banking and Finance – Social Failure
  93. New Sukuk Regulation From IFSB
  94. Islamic Banks in the UK Grow Despite Crisis
  95. Western Interest in Islamic Banking
  96. Shariah Investors Not Immune From Global Equity Market Turbulence, Losing US$5.65 trillion in Third Quarter
  97. Global Financial Crisis 2008: Opportunities for Islamic Finance
  98. Current Financial Crisis and Islamic Economics
  99. Derivatives are Financial Weapon of Mass Destruction
  100. STAKEHOLDERS MODEL OF GOVERNANCE IN ISLAMIC ECONOMIC SYSTEM: REVISIT
  101. Why short-selling is Haram
  102. Is Islamic finance at tipping point?
  103. Malaysian Financial System Can Weather Current Global Financial Turmoil
  104. UK Government’s Financial Rescue Plan
  105. My Recent Publication
  106. My Story: Eidulfitri in Durham
  107. One Day National Fast Organised by Durham University Islamic Society
  108. Market crash shakes world
  109. My Story: Trip to the Stadium of Light, Sunderland v Arsenal
  110. Happy Eidulfitri
  111. The Evolution of Islamic Banking Cases in Malaysia
  112. A New Dawn for Islamic banking in Malaysia
  113. Germany, UK and Spain face recession
  114. My Story: Ramadhan in Durham
  115. Ramadhan and Merdeka Wishes
  116. My Story: August 2008
  117. Renunciation of Islam: Woman’s appeal dismissed
  118. My Story
  119. Islamic Bonds Issuance Defies Gloom
  120. How safe is cash in a bank beyond UK regulation?
  121. The cases that changed Britain: 1972-2006 (Part V)
  122. The cases that changed Britain: 1955-1971 (Part IV)
  123. The cases that changed Britain: 1917-1954 (Part III)
  124. The cases that changed Britain: 1870-1916 (Part II)
  125. Oil giants return to Iraq: Shell, BP, Exxon Mobil and Total set to sign deal with Baghdad
  126. My Story
  127. The cases that changed Britain: 1785-1869 (Part I)
  128. Times Law Reports: from bottled snails to cannibalism
  129. The UK best law firms
  130. Iranian bank assets frozen by EU sanctions
  131. The market sets high oil prices to tell us what to do
  132. Supreme Court Condemns Guantanamou