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Asia is home of 65 percent of the world's Muslims, and Indonesia, in Southeast, is the world's most populous Muslim country. This essay looks at the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and how ...

Physicians from Islamic countries during the late Middle ... but stimulated new patterns of thought for the centuries ahead. The reconciling of practical science, thought, and religion ensured ...

One of the biggest simplifications in markets is to buy cyclical sectors when the economy’s booming, and defensives in a slowdown. It’s obvious—until you try to decide what’s cyclical and ...

The Islamic Revolution of 1979 brought seismic changes to Iran, not least for women. One area that has come under scrutiny is the way women dress and wear their hair - the old Shah, in the 1930s ...

Two years ago, Nahid Islam graduated from Dhaka University with a bachelor thesis that examined why no student movement in Bangladesh had ever managed to reach its goals. Little does it matter ...

The Washington Pattern Instructions (WPI) Committee is pleased to announce that the state’s pattern jury instructions are available to the public on a free web-site. This free public access is ...

The Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio, a key valuation measure, is calculated by dividing the stock's most recent closing price by the sum of the diluted earnings per share from continuing operations ...

An Islamic charity is given the go-ahead to convert a pub into a social and education centre. A number of groups in Hartlepool will benefit after £16,000 was raised in the wake of unrest.

An Islamic or halal mortgage doesn’t charge interest, allowing Muslims and others a Sharia-compliant way of raising finance to buy a property. While often referred to as Islamic mortgages ...

We gather data from a huge range of speakers and writers of English. This means we can identify the typical use of words and phrases. These frequent words and patterns are the ones we include in our ...