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By Dr Jonathan A.J. Wilson Senior Lecturer & Course Leader in Advertising & Marketing Communications Management The Islamic economy is rising rapidly as a major economic paradigm driving growth in the post-crisis world and Dubai is quickly becoming a key ...

By Aarti Nagraj, Gulf Business The bank will continue to offer shari’ah compliant products, but hopes to widen its appeal to customers. Dubai-based Noor Islamic Bank has rebranded itself, removing the Islamic from its name. The lender, now called Noor ...

Dubai will soon launch an international accreditation centre for Halal food as part of the emirate’s drive to become the world’s capital for the Islamic economy. Eng. Hussain Nasser Lootah, Director General of Dubai Municipality has announced that the civic ...

Mahmoud Kassem, The National Like many non-Muslim westerners, Eva Kernova converted to Islamic banking because that’s where some of the best rates and perks are to be found in the UAE today. And then, bit by bit, the former flight ...

By Andrew Shouler Financial Correspondent – Gulf News Dubai’s sounding of an Islamic economy theme has been a highlight of 2013 In the past week it may be that one key feature and interim legacy of the tidal flow that ...