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unusual facts about ''Sharia'' courts



Abubakar Hamza

He was charged under the Prostitution and Immoral Acts law of the Sharia penal code, which was reintroduced in Kano in 2000.

Amina Lawal

A noted in the Author Q&A at the end of Will Ferguson's novel 419, the fictional character Amina—a young pregnant woman fleeing the Sharia states of northern Nigeria on foot—was based on the real life case of Amina Lawal.

Anzor Astemirov

Umarov agreed and appointed Astemirov head of the Caucasian insurgency's Sharia Courts, while his predecessor, the Chechen Sheikh Mansur (Amir Mansur/Arbi Yovmurzayev) had been relieved from this position because he was opposed to the creation of an Emirate, and urged saving Ichkeria as a symbol of the Caucasian resistance.

Atatürk's Reforms

The leading legal reforms instituted included a secular constitution (laïcité) with the complete separation of government and religious affairs, the replacement of Islamic courts and Islamic canon law with a secular civil code based on the Swiss Civil Code, and a penal code based on that of Italy (1924–37).

Each millet had an internal system of governance based upon its religious law, such as Sharia, Catholic Canon law, or Jewish Halakha.

Bashir Yussuf

He was generally thought to settle disputes through the use of Islamic Sharia.

Canadian Islamic Congress

The Canadian Islamic Congress supported recommendations by Marion Boyd that the government of Ontario permit sharia tribunals to which Muslims could voluntarily submit civil disputes and whose findings would then have legal weight under the Arbitration Act.

Egyptian Islamic Jihad

al-Zawahiri convened a Sharia court, where Musab confessed he had been given explosives by the Egyptians which he was told to detonate at the next Shura council meeting.

Faisal Kutty

In December 2004, Marion Boyd released a study that recommended that the Ontario government permit the adoption of sharia tribunals for Muslims who wished to have family arbitration disputes settled in that manner.

Government of Pakistan

The judiciary consists of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, High Courts of Pakistan provincial level; District Courts in each district; anti-terrorism courts; Sharia courts;, and the environmental courts in all over the country; all courts inferior to Supreme Court.

The judicial branch systematically contains its apex Supreme Court, high courts of four provinces, numbers of district, anti-terrorism, Sharia, and the green courts; all inferior to Supreme Court.

Guidance Residential

Guidance Residential is the largest U.S. provider of Sharia-compliant or Islamic home financing to American homeowners.

Hauwa Ibrahim

She was especially cited for her pro bono work defending people condemned under the Islamic Sharia laws that are in force in the northern Nigerian provinces, including her defence of Amina Lawal, Safiya Hussaini and Hafsatu Abubákar.

Homa Arjomand

Homa Arjomand (born 1952) is an Iranian political activist, resident in Canada, where she is a member of the International Campaign against the Sharia Court and the Director of Children First Now.

Iqbal Masood Nadvi

He holds a Ph.D. in Islamic Shariah (law), with specialization in jurisprudence (Fiqh) and taught Islamic Shariah and Jurisprudence at King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, for six years and dealt with various subjects such as principles of jurisprudence (Usool Al-Fiqh), Islamic Culture, Islamic Political Thought, Islamic movements and the Fiqh of Organization.

Islam: The Straight Path

Muslim fundamental tenets of belief and practices are also discussed as is the development of Islamic theology, law and Sufism.

Islamic economic jurisprudence

In June 2005, the Dow Jones Indexes in New York and RHB Securities in Kuala Lumpur teamed up to launch a new "Islamic Malaysia Index"—a collection of 45 stocks representing Malaysian companies that comply with a variety of Sharia-based requirements.

Ittihad

In addition to propagating the legalization of the Sharia law within the Muslim communities, the goal of the Ittihadists was to prevent the formation of independent nation-states on the Muslim-populated territories of the Russian Empire.

Khayr al-Din al-Ramli

It was noted that even the Bedouin of the region who generally disregarded sharia law respected any fatwa issued by him due to cordial relations between them and al-Ramli.

Ma'alim fi al-Tariq

Some, such as scholar Khaled Abou El Fadl, have questioned Qutb's understanding of Sharia, and his assumptions that Sharia is not only perfect but accessible to mortals in its completeness.

Malcolm Pearson, Baron Pearson of Rannoch

In November 2013, Pearson was criticised for his comments about Islam in the United Kingdom, stating that "We see Sharia law running de facto in our land and we see a birth rate which is several times ours" and "These people hate us with frightening religious fervour and we are right to fear them."

Mohammed Awzal

This work, divided in two parts, represents a complete manual on Islamic law following the malikite tradition, based on two classical texts, as-Sanusi (for the first part, 26 chapters, on Ibadat "ritual obligations") and Khalil (for the second, from chapter 27 to 56, on the mu'amalat "transactions").

Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi

Al-Thubeiti was born Mutlaq Hamid Al-Thubeiti Al-Otaibi in Taif On September 9, 1937, in 1965 he graduated from the faculty of Sharia Islamic Studies in Mecca, in 1967 he traveled to the United Kingdom where he studied English at the university of manchester, He returned to Saudi Arabia in 1970s where he got many jobs including member of the faculty of sharia at the University of Umm al-Qura in Mecca.

Princesse El-Materi Holdings

Said to be its most ambitious project yet, the group obtained the approval of the Tunisian monetary authorities to create Banque Zitouna the Islamic commercial bank specializing in Islamic finance (marketing of financial products respectful of the Sharia ).

Rappani Khalilov

Khalilov came to the attention of the authorities in 1998 when he married the sister of the foreign mujahideen commander Ibn al-Khattab's ethnic Dargin wife; he moved to her home village of Karamakhi, which acquired notoriety in the summer of the same year, when its residents introduced Sharia law and declared an Islamic state.

SABB

This ensures that SABB Islamic Financial Solutions conforms to strict adherence to principles of Sharia.

Saud Hamoud 'Abid al-Qatini al-'Otaibi

According to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper that A-Qatini was born in the capital city in 1971, According to Asharq Al-Awsat that he traveled to Yemen to visit sheik Muqbil bin Haadi al-Waadi'ee, and he was an extreme adherent of Islamic sharia (Islamic law).

Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwirjo

Sekarmadji Maridjan Kartosuwirjo (January 7, 1905 - September 5, 1962) was an Indonesian Islamic mystic who led the Darul Islam rebellion against the Indonesian government from 1949 to 1962, with the objective of overthrowing the secular Pancasila ideology and establishing Negara Islam Indonesia (Islamic State of Indonesia) based on sharia law.

Shariah Board

A Sharia Board certifies Islamic financial products as being Sharia-compliant(according to Shariah).

Sheikh Mukhtar Robow

A member of the Rahanweyn clan (which is particularly well represented in the Baidoa area), and more specifically of the Leysan sub-clan, Robow also studied Islamic law in the 1990s at the University of Khartoum in Sudan.

Siete Partidas

-- maybe, as a non-lawyer I don't quite know how to translate "derecho común" --> (based on Justinian Roman law, canon law, and feudal laws), alongside influences from Islamic law.

Sky Kingdom

About this time, four adherents were arrested for the crime of renouncing Islam, but they were later freed since as ex-Muslims Malaysia's sharia court no longer has jurisdiction over them.

Tamara Sonn

In the book, she argues against violence and inequality for women under Islamic law; and commends Morocco's Mudawana family code for the abolishment of the patriarchal family and diction respecting women.

The miller, his son and the donkey

Many Nasreddin tales are also told of Goha in the Arab world, and sure enough, Goha features in a similar story, popular as a subject for the patchwork story cloths of the tentmakers of the Street of Tentmakers (Sharia al Khiyamiya) in Cairo.

Transitional Federal Charter of the Somali Republic

Defines Islam as the national religion and sharia as the basis of national legislation (Article 8).

Umm al-Qura University

Mutlaq Hamid Al-Otaibi, Poet and writer and former associate professor in faculty of sharia at the University of Umm al-Qura.

Wael Hallaq

In 1994, he earned full professorship, and in 2005 became a James McGill Professor in Islamic law.

Wahba Zuhayli

He has also taught as a visiting professor at the faculty of law at University of Benghazi in Libya (1972–1974), the faculty of sharia law at the University of the United Arab Emirates (1984–1989), the University of Khartoum, Sudan, and the Islamic University of Riyadh.


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