On a cross-country flight, Ibrahim Warde, course director at Euromoney Institutional PLC and an expert in Islamic finance, was trying to edit his manuscript but found himself seated next to a talkative passenger. The man in the adjoining seat proclaimed to know nothing about either Islam or finance but proceeded to spend the following six hours lecturing Warde on his personal interpretation of
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