Islamic Finance Today, the exclusive Islamic Banking and Finance Magazine has released its latest July 2015 issue. The magazine which is available for free downloading features leading scholars Abdulazeem Abozaid, Zubair Mughal and Dr.Aishath Muneeza in this month’s issue. You may visit the website at www.iftmagazine.com and access the magazine for free. Your feedback is welcome!

Just three months ago, Heather Matthews, a 27-year-old teacher from Preston in England, was partying in Ibiza whilst parading around in clothing that revealed most of her body. Since then her life has undergone a total transformation, and is now a proud Muslim who wears the Islamic hijab. It has now been four weeks since her conversion to Islam, a …

What may be the world's oldest fragments of the Koran have been found by the University of Birmingham. Radiocarbon dating found the manuscript to be at least 1,370 years old, making it among the earliest in existence. The pages of the Muslim holy text had remained unrecognised in the university library for almost a century. The British Library's expert on …

In what has been termed a 'startling' discovery, the UK’s Birmingham University has unveiled parts of what may be the world’s oldest known version of the Quran, Islam’s holy text. Though the Muslim holiday of Eid-al-Fitr just came to an end, many Muslims may find that they have yet another reason to rejoice. In what has been considered a “startling” …

  Alaa Murabit was 15 years old when her father, mother and 10 siblings moved from Canada to Libya.  It was a cultural shock for the young woman. In Canada, her parents had treated her and her brothers as equals. In Libya, these dynamics were challenged by a wider society that attempted to place prohibitions on what women could do. …