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ITFC closes IsDB annual meetings with $2.9bn in trade-finance agreements

ITFC closes IsDB annual meetings with $2.9bn in trade-finance agreements

The International Islamic Trade Finance Corporation closed the 2026 IsDB Group Annual Meetings in Baku with $2.9 billion in signed agreements — and the composition of that figure says more than the total. The bulk is multi-year framework agreements with member states: $1 billion with Burkina Faso (2026–2030), $750

Virginia's Dar Al-Nur center heads to a July 16 harassment hearing

Virginia's Dar Al-Nur center heads to a July 16 harassment hearing

On July 16 the Dar Al-Nur Community Center — one of the Washington region's oldest Qur'an schools, serving Northern Virginia, Maryland and DC families for more than two decades — had its day in Fairfax County General District Court. The hearing follows more than two years of reported

UCLA wins a CLIR grant to digitize 800 Islamicate manuscripts

UCLA wins a CLIR grant to digitize 800 Islamicate manuscripts

UCLA Library — home to North America's second-largest Islamicate manuscript collection — has won a CLIR Digitizing Hidden Collections grant, funded by the Mellon Foundation, one of just 16 recipients chosen from 159 applications. Over three years the library will digitize roughly 800 manuscripts spanning nearly a millennium (1100–1930)

Burjeel prices a $500m debut sukuk backed by medical equipment

Burjeel prices a $500m debut sukuk backed by medical equipment

Burjeel Holdings priced its inaugural $500 million sukuk in late June under a newly established $1.5 billion programme, with Clifford Chance advising — the firm's global Islamic finance team led from Dubai. The structure matters more than the headline: the certificates are backed by a pool of medical-equipment

Pope Leo and a Jordanian institute renew the Muslim-Christian dialogue case

Pope Leo and a Jordanian institute renew the Muslim-Christian dialogue case

In May 2026 Pope Leo received members of Jordan's Royal Institute for Inter-Faith Studies, alongside the Vatican's Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue, for a colloquium on human compassion and empathy in modern times — and urged Christians and Muslims to 'revive humanity where it has grown cold.

Doha convenes Islamic finance's AI reckoning

Doha convenes Islamic finance's AI reckoning

The 12th Doha Islamic Finance Conference convened on 16 June 2026 under the theme 'Islamic Finance in the Age of Agentic Systems' — the industry's first major gathering devoted to what autonomous AI means for Shariah-governed money. The agenda, organised by Bait Al-Mashura with Dukhan Bank and

Bangladesh's sukuk boom hasn't built a real Islamic capital market

Bangladesh's sukuk boom hasn't built a real Islamic capital market

Bangladesh's sovereign sukuk programme has raised roughly Tk 53,000 crore since its first issue in December 2020, and a Daily Star analysis (reported by IANS on 1 July) argues it has still failed to build a real Islamic capital market. The critique is structural: nearly every issue

Islamic finance regulators sign on to formal dispute resolution

Islamic finance regulators sign on to formal dispute resolution

On 4 June 2026, at the 3rd Global Islamic Economy Summit in Istanbul, the General Council for Islamic Banks and Financial Institutions (CIBAFI) and the OIC Arbitration Centre signed a memorandum of understanding to promote alternative dispute resolution across Islamic finance. The two bodies will run joint conferences, training programmes

UK's first Islamophobia tracker finds a 377% surge in incidents

UK's first Islamophobia tracker finds a 377% surge in incidents

The Islamophobia Response Unit — a UK legal-response charity — published its first annual report on 30 January 2026, and the numbers describe a change in kind, not just degree. The IRU investigated 906 cases between 2021 and 2025 and recorded a 377% surge in incidents between 2023 and 2024; Muslims now