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unusual facts about Islamic law



Islamic studies

In a non-Muslim context, Islamic studies generally refers to the historical study of Islam: Islamic civilization, Islamic history and historiography, Islamic law, Islamic theology and Islamic philosophy.

Landmarks of Marrakesh

In accordance with Islam, the carvings contain no representation of humans or animals, consisting entirely of inscriptions and geometric patterns.

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").

Shaykh Muhammad Amin al-Hasanat Shah

After his marriage in 1979, within a year he traveled to the holy city of Makka (KSA) and enrolled in Umm al-Qura University and for the next five years gained expertise in Islamic Law.

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 comĂșn" --> (based on Justinian Roman law, canon law, and feudal laws), alongside influences from Islamic law.

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.

Wael Hallaq

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


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Cyril Elgood

Elgood's descriptions of the obstetric, ophthalmological, anaesthetic procedures give insight into great advances made in medicine under Islam in Persia despite the falsely adapted four humor theory of the Greco-Romans and the prohibition of dissections by the Islamic law.

Don Bosco Catholic School

Archbishop Lawrence Saldanha of Lahore wrote to the President and Prime Minister of Pakistan and expressed concern over the allowing of Islamic law to be implemented in the area.

European Council for Fatwa and Research

Its fatwas often rely on the four classical Islamic law schools (four schools of Fiqh), as well as all other schools of the people of Islamic law (Fiqh) knowledge, although with exclusion of modernist Islamic scholars in Europe as French ex-great-imam from Marseille, Soheib Bencheikh and Zaki Badawi, president of the London-based Muslim College and a keen promotor of interfaith dialogue (among other publishing regularly together with the Archbishop of York and the British Chief Rabbi).

Faraz

Faraz Rabbani, scholar and researcher of Islamic law and translator from Arabic to English

Ghulam Mohammad Rigi

In an interview with Ferozan Rahmani of the Pajhwok Afghan News he stated that all the planks in his platform were based on Islamic law.

Graduate Theological Foundation

Omar Ahmed Shahin, professor of Islamic Law and Director Islamic Studies.

Ibrahim al-Hamdi

In his adulthood - specifically in its infancy- when he was an associate for his father impartial judge learned him everythings about Islamic law while he was studying in the Aviation College to become a pilot, but did not complete that studies and continued working with his father as a judge in court of Dhamar in the reign of Imam Ahmed Yahya Hamid al-Din where has raised a lot of controversy wonders and attention to his smart skills at the same time.

Iranian sex tape scandal

One of them, Journey to Hidalou was reviewed for compliance with Islamic law by Javad Shamaqdari, Iran's deputy culture minister for film.

Islamic ethics

The concepts of welfare and pension were introduced in early Islamic law as forms of Zakat (charity), one of the Five Pillars of Islam, since the time of the Abbasid caliph Al-Mansur in the 8th century.

Khaled Abou El Fadl

Abou El Fadl holds a B.A. in Political Science from Yale University, a J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in Islamic law from Princeton University.

Marriage in Islam

If the woman was forced into a marriage, without the above mentioned conditions, according to the Hanafi school of Islamic law the decision can be revoked, when the bride comes of age.

Muslim Youth

One professor of the Shar`ia faculty (the department for the study of Islamic law), the future mujahidin leader Burhanuddin Rabbani, had recently translated Sayyid Qutb's Milestones (Ma`alim fi'l-tariq) into Dari and was teaching this text at the University.

Prosecution of gender-targeted crimes

By creating laws that aligned legal laws with Islamic law, the Hudood Ordinance of Pakistan, enacted in 1979, created obstacles for women victimized of gender-based crimes.

Qazi Amin Waqad

An ethnic Mohmand Pashtun from Nangrahar Province, Qazi Amin attended a madrasah in Pakistan, before graduating at the Islamic Law Faculty of Kabul University.

Radio Shariat

Radio Shariat (meaning Islamic law) was the ruling Taliban's mouthpiece, broadcasts religious programs and official decrees and announcements.

Risala

This work was the source text for many later works of Islamic Law and for one of the first Islamic texts the Bilali Document written in the United States written by Bilali Muhammad, a slave in Georgia, originally from Timbo, Guinea.

Sabiha Sumar

Sabiha's first documentary, Who Will Cast the First Stone, about three women in prison in Pakistan under Islamic law won the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival in 1998.

Sakk

The singular form of Sukuk, a type of financial instrument compliant with Islamic law.

Sattareh Farmanfarmaian

Soon after, she assisted in the founding of the Family Planning Association of Iran which, with assistance from the Pathfinder Fund (now Pathfinder International), attempted to educate young mothers on family planning and the use of birth control in accordance with Islamic law.

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).

Sergio Noja Noseda

Having been first appointed Professor of Islamic law at the University of Turin, he later became Professor of Arabic language and literature at the UniversitĂ  Cattolica del Sacro Cuore of Milan where he maintained the chair in Arabic language and literature for more than twenty years.