Gold had traditionally been classified as a currency in Islamic finance, confining its use to spot transactions, but new guidance issued in December is making room for a wider range of investment ...

Islamic finance market is set to bolster global gold market. Muslim financial assets forecast to reach $6.5 trillion by 2020 or more than half of annual global gold production. Shariah Gold ...

This decision is about one of the most important markets in the world: the gold market, an investable market worth an estimated $2.4 trillion and is also of significance for the world of Islamic ...

Gold can now be used as a commodity to back Sharia-based financial products, with rules about using the metal as an investment set out for the first time. The World Gold Council announced the new ...

Pastorelli, Walton, and Nixon’s work is part of a new museum exhibit, Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, at The Block Art Museum of ...