This Ramadan, because the duration of the fast varies from city to city based on dawn-to-dust time, the Russian city of Murmansk has the longest fasting time – a total of 18 hours.
Standard Bankannounced that it launched its first shar’īa discretionary trust offering.
Legal experts from the UAE recently stated that a person cannot write a will exclusive for his or her sons and daughters, as there are other heirs (for example, one’s parents and spouse) whose consent is required for such an arrangement.
The Turkish Court of Appeals refused to recognize a divorce that took place in Saudi Arabia, holding that the institution of unilateral divorce is contrary to Turkish public order.