John Paulson - a New York hedge fund manager - made an estimated 3.7 bn US$ betting on the subprime crisis. He believed in a falling market at a time when nobody did. Now John Paulson bets on the recovery of the real estate market. Reason enough to check this out.

Real estate is one of the most popular investments in the Muslim world. First of all real estate - especially residential - is an asset class, which complies easily with the Shariah law. Moreover usually real estate gives a solid and stable return to its investors.

How they did it - how you can do it!

Per definitionem all billionaires did exceptionally well building a fortune. But how did they got to where they are now? By examining the Arabian Business Rich List we found the key factors and moreover found that the way how to build fortunes is different nowadays than it was decades ago.

This article traces the way of the richest people in the Arab World. In part one we examine the businesses, industries and the environment in which they accumulated their wealth. In part two we'll have a closer look at young enterpreneurs and how they earn their money nowadays. Finally in part 3 we bring together the key factors of how you can do it as well.

Many Muslims are insecure whether it is allowed to invest in the stock market or not. Basically it is permissible. Buying shares of a company means that investors are becoming shareholders and therefore share business-risks equally.But in either case the companies strictly have to comply with Shariah-principles.

Newspapers have often devoted reams of newsprint to the supposed conflict between Christianity and Islam. In fact, one book, political scientist Samuel Huntington’s “Clash of Civilizations”, has popularized the concept of future conflict between people on the basis of their cultural and religious identities – a dystopian future where Christians and Muslims will be on opposite sides. However, one news item that may demolish this argument is the Vatican’s support for Islamic banking.