Islamic art in V&A

Одна из лучших в мире коллекций декоративно-прикладного искусства исламских стран хранится в музее Виктории и Альберта в Лондоне. Познакомиться с ней можно здесь: http://www.vam.ac.uk/collections/asia/islamic_gall/index.html .

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Published: 5 days, 18 hours ago (Thu, 26 Nov 2009 12:35:13 PST); 550 bytes

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Second epicenter or an aftershock?

Dubai’s debt problems drive Asian share prices down sharply . Frankly, I haven’t been paying attention to this one. This is mainly because I know that Islamic law doesn’t approve of interest rate based banking. I had no idea that Dubai World was trading on ANY exchange. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei fell 3.2% to 9,081.52, its lowest level since July. In Hong Kong, the Hang Seng was down 4.9% at ...

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Published: 5 days, 6 hours ago (Fri, 27 Nov 2009 00:18:39 PST); 2813 bytes

slamlander

Dubai's Goes Broke. Capitalist Paradise In Peril.

... 31. Hong Kong's Hang Seng shed 1.8 percent to 22,210.41. Wall Street was closed for the Thanksgiving holiday and most markets in the Middle East were silent because of a major Islamic feast. "Dubai's standstill announcement ... was vague and it remains difficult to discern whether the call for a standstill will be voluntary," said a statement from the Eurasia Group, a Washington-based research ...

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Published: 5 days, 9 hours ago (Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:44:08 PST); 7131 bytes

ontd_political

What next?

... Abu Dhabi banks, the department of finance asked for a standstill until May 30 on all financing to the heavily indebted Dubai World and its troubled property unit Nakheel, which is due to pay back $4bn on an Islamic bond on December 14. Debt Standstill - Mechanism by which a country agrees to cease payments on its debts until a restructuring agreement has been negotiated with its creditors.

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Published: 6 days, 3 hours ago (Thu, 26 Nov 2009 03:41:48 PST); 827 bytes

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The Decade From Hell

...didn't heed the warning signs from around the world — and from within our own country — that Islamic terrorism was heading for our shores. • Greed. Our absolute faith in the markets, fed by... didn't limit this to war between the West and Islam, though he did single out "Islamic civilization" as potentially having significant friction points with the West because of its population explosion and the ...

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ontd_political

The Chocolate House, Yules 2009 and NEW General Collection Perfumes

..., sugar plum, rich vanilla cream, sweet coffee, dark patchouli, black anise seed, and golden musk in an infusion of organic sweet wood alcohol. Seraphim: Seraphim means "burning ones". In Christian, Islamic, and Jewish literature, the seraphim were celestial beings with two or three pairs of wings who guard the throne of God. In Christian angelology, seraphim are the highest-ranking in the ...

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vmperfumes

[LINK] A Dubai default?

...default surging by the most since they began trading in January. The state-controlled company will ask creditors for a “standstill” agreement as it negotiates to extend maturities, including $3.52 billion of Islamic bonds due Dec. 14 from its property unit Nakheel PJSC, Dubai’s Department of Finance said in an e-mailed statement. Moody’s Investors Service and Standard & Poor’s cut the ratings on...

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rfmcdpei

Dubai World / Nakheel Prepares To Default

... to extend maturities, including $3.52 billion of Islamic bonds due on Dec. 14 from its property unit ... banks, National Bank of Abu Dhabi PJSC and Islamic lender Al Hilal Bank bought all $5 billion of...securities to National Bank of Abu Dhabi PJSC and Islamic debt, or sukuk, to Al Hilal. Dubai owes ...93 billion last month in its first sale of Islamic bonds, attracting more than $6.3 billion of orders...

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Published: 6 days, 19 hours ago (Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:46:34 PST); 7426 bytes

byzantine_ruins

Come Again???

...start of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. They don't count? Secondly, if you want to call this Islamic terrorism (which would only empower the aura of Islamic terrorist organizations), it is lone-wolf, domestic terrorism committed by an American, not international terrorism. Warnings of Al Qaeda's plan ...

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Published: 6 days, 19 hours ago (Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:44:05 PST); 1602 bytes

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Obama To Send 34,000 More To War

... to Afghanistan in March. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, reportedly has called for up to 40,000 more to wage a counterinsurgency campaign against the Taliban, the Islamic militia originally ousted by the U.S. invasion in 2001. The president has weighed several options for bolstering the American contingent, ranging from sending a few thousand troops to sending the 40,...

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Published: 6 days, 20 hours ago (Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:55:14 PST); 6708 bytes

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