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sharia
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sha·ri·a
/ shäˈrēə/
(also sha·ri·ah or sha·ri·at
/ -ät/ )
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n.
Islamic canonical law based on the teachings of the Koran and the traditions of the Prophet (Hadith and Sunna), prescribing both religious and secular duties and sometimes retributive penalties for lawbreaking. It has generally been supplemented by legislation adapted to the conditions of the day, though the manner in which it should be applied in modern states is a subject of dispute between Islamic fundamentalists and modernists.
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Sharia Compliant Funds in Ireland.
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 1/22/2009; 700+ words
; ...witnessed an increased interest in both Sharia Funds and in Islamic financial products worldwide. Sharia Funds are funds which are deemed to be compliant...Insurance, there are now approximately 100 Sharia equity funds managing US$ 5 billion in...
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Sharia Face-Off Can Politicised Sharia -Lemu.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 10/23/2001; 700+ words
; ...was Grand Khadi i.e. Chief judge of Sharia ,court of Niger state for over 13 years...Excerpts: <b>What is Sharia in its actual sense?</b> Well frankly speaking, Sharia has been in the country before the coming...
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Sharia- Making Waves In The Investment World!
News Wire article from: Mondaq Business Briefing; 2/27/2007; ; 700+ words
; The word "Sharia" is making waves in the investment world...close to him. However, the guidelines of Sharia dictate that making money from paying...investment house involved, normally a "Sharia Committee" or "Sharia Supervisory Board...
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Sharia Implementation in Katsina, the Journey So Far.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 7/28/2003; 700+ words
; ...into being of the Islamic legal system (Sharia) as signed by the executive governor of...August 2000 and another law establishing the Sharia Commission signal the formal entrenchment of Sharia legal system in Katsina State. This was...
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Sharia Banking System in Indonesia.
M2 Presswire; 9/22/2008; 700+ words
; ...September 2008-www.companiesandmarkets.com: Sharia Banking System in Indonesia(C)1994-2008...companiesandmarkets.com adds new report: Sharia Banking System in Indonesia The Sharia banking industry is developing rapidly worldwide...
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Sharia UK: What does it mean?
Newspaper article from: The Daily Mail (London, England); 2/8/2008; 700+ words
; ...Byline: Richard Pendlebury WHAT exactly is sharia law? The word comes from the Arabic term...that is literally the way of life. Thus sharia is supposed to guide, in every aspect...communities, the picture is oftenmore complex. Sharia law is derived from two main sources...
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Sharia: Nigeria's doomsday formula?
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 7/20/2000; 700+ words
; ...condemnation against the introduction of the Sharia legal code in some Northern States. Like...convinced that the prevailing contagion of Sharia if not immediately checked, would definitely...governor of Zamfara State declared the Sharia, my contention then was that if the Penal...
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Sharia Movement Gains in Indonesia
News Wire article from: AP Online; 8/15/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...and other violations of Islamic law _ or sharia _ are the norm in Indonesia, the world...Although some religious parties asked for sharia law to be included among a set of constitutional...national legislature. Yet voices calling for sharia are growing louder at the very time the...
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Sharia and Democracy.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 7/14/2000; 700+ words
; ...Kano State to the compelling forces of Sharia, the sharialisation of Northern Nigeria...bearded governor of Zamfara State dragged Sharia into national consciousness, little attention...Obasanjo government. It was reasoned that Sharia was to be a bargaining chip which, in...
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Sharia And Public Order.
News Wire article from: Africa News Service; 10/23/2001; 700+ words
; ...Panel, takes an historical look into the Sharia issue especially in the light of its introduction...Ghyasu Lughah, Massod (1986) defines Sharia as "The way or road in the religion of...a Pakistani cleric succinctly defines Sharia as a body of laws that "fashions all...
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sharia
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
sharia the religious law of Islam. As Islam makes no distinction between religion...analogy ( qiyas ). Another important principle is ijtihad, the extension of sharia to situations neither covered by precedent nor explicable by analogy to other...
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Sharia
Book article from: World Encyclopedia
Sharia Traditional law of Islam , believed by Muslims to be the result of divine revelation. It derives from a number of sources, including the Koran and a collection of teachings and legends about the life of Muhammad known as the Hadith .
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Hassan Abdullah al-Turabi
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...his nation's leading experts on the Sharia, or Islamic law. At the core of Turabi...cannot exist unless it is rooted in the Sharia. Islam as a way of life permeates every...Muslim state without the primacy of the Sharia. If the state has a sizable non-Muslim...
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Islam
Book article from: A Dictionary of World History
...literal interpretation of the Koran and sharia . Fundamentalists tend to stress the penal...restrictions on women contained in the sharia , partly because such provisions have...life. They advocated the reform of the sharia by reopening the door of ijtihā...
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Loans
Encyclopedia entry from: International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
...of interest. The most prominent example is that of Islam. Sharia, the Islamic law, does not allow the collection and payment...as conventional banks but are believed to obey the rules of Sharia. Islamic banking is based on the sharing of profit and loss...
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