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Books on: islamic law

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Islamic Law and Legal System: Studies of Saudi Arabia

Book by Frank E. Vogel; Brill, 2000

Subjects:

Islam And State--Saudi Arabia, Islamic Law--History, Islamic Law--Saudi Arabia, Law--Saudi Arabia--Islamic Influences

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...supported by a view that Islamic law early in its career had...seem that, if Islamic law is studied in isolation...system. To learn about Islamic law as applied means...State, Society, and Law; Peters, Islamic and Secular. 4 See...
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Islamic Law and Culture, 1600-1840

Book by Haim Gerber; Brill, 1999

Subjects:

Islamic Law--Interpretation And Construction--History, Jurisprudence--Middle East--History, Law Teachers--Islamic Countries--Biography, Turkey--History--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Opinions passed on this period in Islamic law often seem based on biased preconceptions...documented findings. Most of the work on Islamic law by the first and second generation...division between the first period of Islamic history (up to the year 1000 or...
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Law in the Middle East - Vol. 1
Includes: Origin and Development of Islamic Law

Book by Majid Khadduri, Herbert J. Lienbesny; Middle East Institute, 1955

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Islamic Law, Law--Middle East

Collections: Entire Library

...the founders of the Islamic legal system could hardly...body of Christian civil law claiming to derive its...Roman law may have had on Islamic jurisprudence was not...Arabs whose pre-Islamic law had consisted entirely...devout builders of the Islamic system were bound to...
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Authority, Continuity, and Change in Islamic Law

Book by Wael B. Hallaq; Cambridge University Press, 2001

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Authority--Religious Aspects--Islam, Islamic Law

Collections: Entire Library

...Conflicting Indicators in Islamic Law, in U. Vermeulen...van Reeth, eds., Law, Christianity and Modernism in Islamic Society (Leuven: Uitgeverij...Paul Gewirtz, eds., Laws Stories: Narrative and Rhetoric in the Law (New Haven and London...as a Source of Law in Islamic Law, Islamic Law and...
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The Fall and Rise of the Islamic State

Book by Noah Feldman; Princeton University Press, 2008

Subjects:

Constitutional Law (Islamic Law), Islam And State, Islamic Countries--Politics And Government, Islamic Law--Political Aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...Islam or as the ultimate arbiters of Islamic values. The colonial and lateOttoman...picture of government. Given that Islamic law is, historically speaking, the...the scholarly community, how can Islamic law be said to rule when it is not...

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Journal Articles on: islamic law

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Islamic Law in the Jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice: an Analysis

Journal article by Clark B. Lombardi; Chicago Journal of International Law, Vol. 8, 2007

Subjects:

Constitutional amendments, Constitutional law, Court decisions, Human rights, International Court of Justice, International disputes, International law, Islam, Islamic law, Law schools

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...reductive survey of the laws of war in a vast...some attention on Islamic law. He stated that...considered a reference to Islamic law to be essential to...inquiry into the laws of war. Still, the reference to Islamic law was only used to...
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Civil and Religious Law in England: a Religious Perspective

Journal article; Islamic Studies, Vol. 47, 2008

Subjects:

Human subjects, Islam, Islamic law, Muslims, Religion, Society

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...systems when we discuss Islamic and British law. On the one hand, sharia...point about how Islamic law and Islamic identity...about the character of law. It would be a pity...abstract liberties and the laws function was accordingly...religious groups like Islamic minority communities...
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Choice of Law and Islamic Finance

Journal article by Julio C. Colón; Texas International Law Journal, Vol. 46, 2011

Subjects:

Choice of law, Islam, Islamic financing, Islamic law

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...repugnant to the laws of common law and civil law countries; 2) Shariah or Islamic law as a choice...Most arbitration in Islamic finance is done using combined-law, meaning under one nations laws subject to Shariah...upon to interpret Islamic law. Those versed in business and finance laws draft contracts...
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Iraq, Secured Transactions, and the Promise of Islamic Law

Journal article by Mark J. Sundahl; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 40, 2007

Subjects:

Foreign investment laws--Evaluation, Foreign investments--Evaluation, Foreign investments--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Influence, Secured transactions--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...has been echoed in the laws of Islamic countries as well as...fundamental sources of Islamic law do not expressly require...H. KARAM, BUSINESS LAWS OF IRAQ (1990); see...One example of how Islamic law evolves to accommodate...
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Islamic Arbitration: a New Path for Interpreting Islamic Legal Contracts

Journal article by Charles P. Trumbull; Vanderbilt Law Review, Vol. 59, 2006

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Arbitration, Contract law, First Amendment-US, Islamic law, Jargon, Muslims, United States

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...disputes according to Islamic law.3 Other Muslims incorporate the laws of Sharia into their...Western legal traditions, Islamic law does not consist of generally...applicable, compulsory laws.114 Instead, Islamic law assigns legal and moral...

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Magazine Articles on: islamic law

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Islamic Law: Changing Objectives

Magazine article by Muneer Fareed; Islamic Horizons, Vol. 36, May/Jun 2007

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Aquinas, Thomas (1225-74), Islamic law, Marx, Karl, Muslims, North America, Objectives, Perceptions, Philosophers, Plato, Public opinion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...of the need for laws that embody the...avoided". Now to Islamic law: whereas previously...the objective of Islamic law. In the fourteenth...the purpose of the law essentially as the...distillation of the laws objectives, its...understanding of the laws objectives. As...future discussions on Islamic law, I believe, will...
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Islamic Law Comes to the Phoenix Airport

Magazine article by Robert Spencer; Human Events, Vol. 64, September 8, 2008

Subjects:

Islam, Islamic law, Legislation, Muslims, Public officials

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

Islamic Law Comes to the Phoenix Airport by Robert...and say that they have accommodated Islamic practices enough, and will do so no longer...society is learning that it must adapt to Islamic law and custom. How many of our freedoms...
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Behind the Koranic Curtain: A Look at Life under the Rigid Theocracy Ruling Iran's Islamic Republic, Where Nonconformity to Shari'a Law Is Punishable by Imprisonment, Beating, Amputation, and Even Death

Magazine article by Michael E. Telzrow; The New American, Vol. 22, October 16, 2006

Subjects:

Crimes against humanity--Religious aspects, Iran--Political aspects, Iran--Religious aspects, Iran--Social aspects, Islamic law--Interpretation and construction, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Social aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Rigid Theocracy Ruling Irans Islamic Republic, Where Nonconformity to Sharia Law Is Punishable by Imprisonment...danger should they meet. The Islamic state recognizes Christians...author Robert Spencer, "Islamic law mandates that non-Muslims...
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No to Islamic Law in Iraq

Magazine article by Robert Spencer; Human Events, Vol. 62, November 13, 2006

Subjects:

Christians, Human rights, Iraq War-2003, Islam, Islamic law, Religion

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

No to Islamic Law in Iraq by Robert Spencer Shouting...forbidden to do under Sharia law. Christian women have been threatened...leading intellectual light of Iraqs Islamic Dawa Party, explained in 1975 that Islamic law must be the foundation of...
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Shariah Charade: Politicians Fan Fear to Win Ballot Approval for Oklahoma Ban on Islamic Law

Magazine article by Sandhya Bathija; Church & State, Vol. 63, December 2010

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American Muslims--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, American Muslims--Civil rights, Islamic law--Censorship, Muslims in the United States--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Muslims in the United States--Civil rights, Oklahoma--Domestic policy

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Approval for Oklahoma Ban on Islamic Law. by Sandhya Bathija Noreen...more push for Shariah law." Critics say Gabriels...3.7 million people - Islamic groups are most unlikely...Nevada, alleged that Islamic law has already been implemented...

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Newspaper Articles on: islamic law

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Would Islamic Law Work Here? ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury Rowan Williams Provoked Controversy When He Suggested Islamic Sharia Law Could Be Recognised, in Part, by the UK. PAUL MCMILLAN Looks at What It Would Mean and Why There Is Little Support for the Idea

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), February 9, 2008

Subjects:

British Broadcasting Corp.--Laws, regulations and rules, Broadcasting industry--Laws, regulations and rules, Broadcasting industry--Religious aspects, Islamic fundamentalism--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic fundamentalism--Religious aspects, Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Religious aspects, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Laws, regulations and rules, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Controversy When He Suggested Islamic Sharia Law Could Be Recognised...adopting certain elements of Islamic sharia law in the UK seemed...doubted a mix of sharia and UK law would work. Taj Malik is president...of the Newcastle Mosque and Islamic Centre in Malvern Street...difficult to have two sets of laws for people living in one country...
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Western Blindness; PC Ignorance of Islamic Law Leads to Apathy

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, January 18, 2008

Subjects:

Blindness--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...but to "democratize" Islamic populations, freedom...extremists," but the law as enforced by democratically...to discuss blasphemy laws in Afghanistan and Iraq...And not just blasphemy laws. Jihad doctrine; Shariah (Islamic law); designs for a global...militarys primary expert on Islamic law, Mr. Coughlin was...
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Religious Parties Demand Extension of Islamic Law

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, April 9, 2009

Subjects:

Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Religious aspects, Political parties--Laws, regulations and rules, Political parties--Pakistan, Political parties--Religious aspects, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Laws, regulations and rules, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the NWFP. The imposition of Islamic courts there was one of the...Pakistan has been creeping toward Islamic law since the days of Gen. Mohammed...drinking of alcohol and enforced Islamic punishments such as whipping...a hybrid that requires that laws do not conflict with Islam...
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U.S. Companies and Islamic Law; American Businesses Need Secular Governance

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, October 6, 2005

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Islamic law

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...U.S. Companies and Islamic Law; American Businesses...governance by secular laws. The swelling oil revenues...the demand to impose Islamic law (sharia) on financial...expansionism. The Dow Jones Islamic Markets index and Islamic...
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A Spine for a Spine with Shariah; Creeping Islamic Fundamentalist Law Threatens Human Rights

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), September 10, 2010

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Fundamentalism--Laws, regulations and rules, Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Islamic law--Laws, regulations and rules, Sharia (Islamic religious practice)--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Spine with Shariah; Creeping Islamic Fundamentalist Law Threatens Human Rights. Byline...asking for our legal rights under Islamic Shariah law. One of the hospitals...is a strict interpretation of Islamic law that merges mosque and state...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: islamic law

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Pakistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...2003) the establishment of Islamic law. Zafarullah Khan Jamali, the...West Frontier government of a law calling for Islamic moral policing was challenged...agreed to the establishment of Islamic law in Swat in exchange for a permanent...
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Islam

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...exception of inheritance and witness laws, Islamic rights and obligations apply equally...positions. For more information on Islamic law, see sharia ; for discussions of the major branches of Islamic theology, see Shiite , Sunni . Bibliography...
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Afghanistan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the president to five-year terms. No law passed by the Assembly may be contrary to...particularly puritanical form of Islamic law in the two thirds of the country they controlled...same month the National Assembly passed a law granting many Afghans amnesty for human...
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Saudi Arabia

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ruled under Islamic law. In much of the country...and by the growth of Islamic fundamentalism. In Nov...a Supreme Council of Islamic Affairs, composed of...authority to propose new laws without first seeking...in Riyadh, involving Islamic militants. Such terror...
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Sudan

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Nimeiri in 1983 instituted strict Islamic law, further inflaming opposition in...Libya, Iran, and Iraq; reinforced Islamic law; banned opposition parties...political power was held by the National Islamic Front, a fundamentalist political...

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