Using contemporary illustrations, Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law delves into the theoretical and practical studies of al-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyyah in Islamic legal theory. It elucidates the importance of this concept in the application of Islamic law and demonstrates how the concept relates to the objectives of Islamic law (maqāṣid al-Sharī‘ah), generally.
Using contemporary illustrations, Legal Maxims in Islamic Criminal Law delves into the theoretical and practical studies of al-Qawaid al-Fiqhiyyah in Islamic legal theory.
Twenty-three-year-old Dainty Prescott, indulged society girl, TCU graduate, WBFD-TV intern and last year's debutante, finally has everything she desires, until an early morning phone call from an international operator sends her life spiraling out of control. Her younger sister Teensy, who chartered a plane for Mexico with a friend after last night's Rubanbleu ball, is in critical condition in a Ciudad Juárez hospital, and her friend is missing.
2321 Beware these vicious men , sitting in religious silence , for they are wild beasts dressed as sheep : the Sūfis traditionally wore woollen habits , from which material ( süf ) they are commonly said to have derived their name .
This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.
The Fātimid dynasty was nominally made up of rulers endorsing the Šīʿī understanding of Islam but who were practically engaged in building an empire that was at once tolerant of others' views and eager to situate every skilled or ...
From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism, the history of science, Islam in Europe, manuscripts and the history of oriental studies. It also includes reviews and obituaries. Vol. V and VI are catalogues of newly discovered Arabic manuscript originals and films/offprints from manuscripts related to the topics of the preceding volumes.
From the Greeks to the Arabs and Beyond written by Hans Daiber, is a six volume collection of Daiber’s scattered writings, journal articles, essays and encyclopaedia entries on Greek-Syriac-Arabic translations, Islamic theology and Sufism ...
This collection of essays covers the classical heritage and Islamic culture, classical Arabic science and philosophy, and Muslim religious sciences, showing continuation of Greek and Persian thought as well as original Muslim contributions to the sciences, philosophy, religion, and culture of Islam.
The Fātimid dynasty was nominally made up of rulers endorsing the Šīʿī understanding of Islam but who were practically engaged in building an empire that was at once tolerant of others' views and eager to situate every skilled or ...
Penal Codes and Supreme Court Case Law under Numayrī and Bashīr
In The Codification of Islamic Criminal Law in the Sudan, Olaf Köndgen offers an in-depth analysis of Islamic criminal law in the Sudan through the penal codes of 1983 and 1991; he examines their application and interpretations in the case law of the Sudan’s Supreme Court.
In The Codification of Islamic Criminal Law in the Sudan, Olaf Köndgen offers an in-depth analysis of Islamic criminal law in the Sudan through the penal codes of 1983 and 1991; he examines their application and interpretations in the case ...
Volume 1 deals with international crimes. It contains several significant contributions on the theoretical and doctrinal aspects of ICL which precede the five chapters addressing some of the major categories of international crimes. The first two chapters address: the sources and subjects of ICL and its substantive contents. The other five chapters address: Chapter 3: The Crime Against Peace and Aggression (The Crime Against Peace and Aggression: From its Origins to the ICC; The Crime of Aggression and the International Criminal Court); Chapter 4: War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity & Genocide (Introduction to International Humanitarian Law; Penal Aspects of International Humanitarian Law; Non-International Armed Conflict and Guerilla Warfare; Mercenarism and Contracted Military Services; Customary International Law and Weapons Control; Genocide; Crimes Against Humanity; Overlaps, Gaps, and Ambiguities in Contemporary International Humanitarian Law, Genocide, and Crimes Against Humanity); Chapter 5: Crimes Against Fundamental Human Rights (Slavery, Slave-Related Practices, and Trafficking in Persons; Apartheid; International Prohibition of Torture; The Practice of Torture in the United States: September 11, 2001 to Present); Chapter 6: Crimes of Terror-Violence (International Terrorism; Kidnapping and Hostage Taking; Terrorism Financing; Piracy; International Maritime Navigation and Installations on the High Seas; International Civil Aviation); Chapter 7: Crimes Against Social Interest (International Control of Drugs; Challenges in the Development of International Criminal Law: The Negotiations of the United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime and the United Nations Convention Against Corruption; Transnational Organized Crime; Corruption of Foreign Public Officials; International Criminal Protection of Cultural Property; Criminalization of Environmental Protection).
Volume 1 deals with international crimes. It contains several significant contributions on the theoretical and doctrinal aspects of ICL which precede the five chapters addressing some of the major categories of international crimes.
Islamic Finance in Europe: Towards a Plural Financial System, Studies in Islamic Finance, Accounting and Governance, Cheltenham, UK – Northampton, MA, USA, Edward Elgar, 2013. 104 Rohe, The Oxford Handbook, p. 659.
A Critical Reading of Fī Ẓilāl Al-Qurʼān by Sayyid Quṭb (1906-1966)
This first critical study and selected translation from Arabic of an influential book provides precise information about current radical Islamic thought (in line with extreme unorthodox minor traditions) and also about current official Islamic orthodoxy, both compared to the spiritual, social and political main tradition.
This first critical study and selected translation from Arabic of an influential book provides precise information about current radical Islamic thought (in line with extreme unorthodox minor traditions) and also about current official ...
A Biocentric, Student-Focused Model for Reconstructing Education
Education for Tomorrow is unique in that it brings both of these approaches together first by examining the ways that indigenous people and women of all cultures acquire and pass on knowledge, and the deleterious effects that enforced Eurocentric systems have had on that process. The authors then turn to public schools to explore the influences, both good and bad, that today’s programs have on the distribution of opportunities afforded to all children in the United States.
Education for Tomorrow is unique in that it brings both of these approaches together first by examining the ways that indigenous people and women of all cultures acquire and pass on knowledge, and the deleterious effects that enforced ...
