The general image built up by the relentless pro Jewish Western media since the 1979 Islamic Revolution has been that women in Iran were an oppressed lot without any freedom that the women in the West were supposed to have been blessed with. I too was partly a victim of this powerful Western propaganda that is part of the western …

Genealogical Tree of Sri Lankan Muslims by Fazli & Firoze Sameer (1996) is a pioneering work on Sri Lankan Muslim genealogy. It contains detailed genealogical information on a number of Sri Lankan Muslim families in a very user-friendly format and is the result of much painstaking work on the part of its compilers who have spent several laborious years gathering …

Muslims of Sri Lanka. Avenues to Antiquity edited by Dr. M.A.M.Shukri (1986) is one of the most comprehensive works written on the history of Sri Lanka’s Muslim community. This valuable work which comprises a collection of essays by a number of renowned scholars details the growth and progress of Sri Lanka’s Muslim community from the earliest times beginning with Arab …

The mentality of reckless greed and the resulting spread of toxic financial externalities into the ‘real economy’ can be viewed as being diametrically at the opposite end of Islamic finance, in theory at least.  This year has witnessed the most serious break-down in the US financial system in some 70 years.  However it is not only the US that has …

It was only recently that a Bahrain-based investment  firm announced the launch of a  Nanotechnology Fund, a private equity fund which will invest in shares and equity-oriented securities of companies with a particular emphasis on global nanotechnology companies including technology and biotechnology companies which benefit from nanotechnology.  Although we do not wish to deal with the issue of nanotechnology which …