Sentences with phrase «islamic law»

But Freddie Mac hopes to address the problem with a new lease - purchase program that uses a rent - paying system that's acceptable to Islamic law.

For example, the law allows persons 18 years and over to get married without any restriction, but social customs drive us to manage marriage with parents and if they reject your proposal, you are not allowed because it will become disobedience of parents that is forbidden in Islamic law.

A popular Saudi cleric has ruled that cryptocurrencies are prohibited under Islamic law because they are «ambiguous» and provide anonymity to criminals.

Asifa Quraishi - Landes was invited to present «Islamic Family Law in American Courts» as part of the Abdallah S. Kamel Center for the Study of Islamic Law and Civilization lecture series at Yale Law School in February.

There are more subtleties in the history of Islamic Law than may appear when we view the issue through the prism of Twenty - First Century cultural politics: see Lord Chief Justice Phillips, the Archbishop of Canterbury and Marion Boyd.

Emon's work has been interesting, but I've also noted L. Ali Khan of Washbrun University and the Islamic Law Blog.

As for the Rowan Williams debate, I've said in some of my previous talks that don't fear Islamic law, it's already here — we call it the common law (in reference to the jury system).

It's a complex thesis which argues that at the time when the common law was slowly developing the action of debt, the assize of novel disseisin, and trial by jury, during the time of Henry II, Islamic law had three analogous institutions, and that there were enough links to Sicily to make the borrowing plausible.

Furthermore, the study of the characteristics of the function and structure of Islamic law demonstrates its remarkable kinship with the common law in contrast to the civil law.

You're also right about the complexities involved because there really isn't one form of Islamic law.

Its title is: The Organization of Islamic Cooperation and its Role in Enforcing Islamic Law and, as with the Islamic Spring and the incredible erosion of women's and human rights already manifest in Egypt and Libya, it is very disturbing.

The Nigerian legal system is based on English common law, as modified by legislation, Nigerian court decisions, the constitution of Nigeria, customary law and Islamic law.

He is a noted expert on sukuk (Islamic bonds, structured in such a way as to generate returns to investors without infringing Islamic law) and regularly gives presentations on Islamic finance topics around the world.

«It is often observed that it is very easy to get into court in African states and can be much more difficult to get out of court,» with proceedings taking many years, he said; there being a variety of legal traditions across the continent, from common, to civil and Islamic law, as well as hybrids, such as those in South Africa and Mauritius.

Islamic law prohibits adoption.

She earned a Juris Doctor degree at University of Arkansas School of Law while working at a small firm and serving as the production editor of the Journal of Islamic Law and Culture.

Law students, however, are not as well - versed in Islamic law as Sharia students.

Footnoted posts discuss misconceptions about Sharia, compare and contrast Western law with Islamic law, and even explore regulation of halal food.

He regularly advises on South Asian, Middle Eastern law and Islamic law in the form of expert opinions and advice on commercial law, criminal / human rights law and family law with regard to proceedings before the High Court of England and Wales, the County Court, Magistrates» -LSB-...]

At trial, the husband attempted to introduce parol evidence in the form of an expert witness who was prepared to testify that certain language in the document signified an intention on the part of the husband and wife to have their marriage, including property relations at the time of any divorce, governed by «Islamic law.»

An agreement whose only substantive term in any language is that the marriage has been made in accordance with «Islamic law» is hopelessly uncertain as to its terms and conditions.

Marion Boyd's argument is reflected in Omar's comments: if one does not hold out the possibility of enforcing a family arbitral award made under Islamic law, at least on some grounds (and she set out a number of conditions about procedural and substantive fairness), then those who go to arbitration under that law anyway have no protection in civil law, and the arbitrator has no incentive to conform to our general notions of fairness.

This was of great significance given that the Moroccan legal system is set in Islamic Law.

Constitutional Islamic law reform is an enormously complicated subject, and few do it justice.

There's a nice list of some online resources pertaining to Sharia and Islamic law to be found on the lo - fi librarian... [more]

For example, a country might recognize Islamic law as effective for family law matters between Muslims, and might hold that a marriage not licensed by a government marriage license was still valid if the marriage was effected in a manner recognized by Islamic law.

But, a purported marriage of a married woman to another man would be void and probably punishable by some very severe Islamic law sanction.

She writes in the September 2010 issue of Guernica about how she has used Shari'ah (Islamic law) to enhance the rights of a female client from Jordan who had been married, abused in the U.S., and finally divorced.

Professor Mona Siddiqui used human rights as a prism through which light could be shone on the historical and cultural accretions on Islamic law.

If you're looking for the reason why this is the case even when they've been raped, it's because Islamic law, specifically, Sharia law, states that this is the punishment for engaging in pre-marital sex.

A project of Fordham University, the main medieval law links page will give you a tour d'horizon of Roman, Canon, Germanic, English, Jewish, Islamic law texts.

This question was raised in EM (Lebanon)(FC) v Secretary of State for the Home Department [2008] UKHL 64 but was only tangential to the main issue, which was the relationship between the appellant mother and her son as opposed to the father whose entitlement to custody would have been secured under Islamic law.

The request is based on Islamic law, and reports that the judge is considering it are being taken seriously by human rights organizations:

Posts discuss misconceptions about Sharia and compare and contrast Western law with Islamic law.

The themes range from corporate law to Islamic law, from lawyers job to legal education, and I usually use economic analysis of law in analyzing the legal issues that I discuss in my blog.»

According to the United Nations, Kuwait's legal system is a mix of British common law, French civil law, Egyptian civil law and Islamic law.

Hope the women in this country are prepared to become servants again under Islamic law.

Gilbert & George decided to explore this contrast between rebellion and conservatism, and the result is «Scapegoating,» 123 photographic collages featuring gas canisters, posters promoting strict Islamic law and veiled Muslim women.

Although public alcohol consumption is effectively banned under Islamic law in the Maldives - which you'll see most evidently in the capital of Malé - the resorts provide alcoholic beverages at extremely reasonable costs, considering the nearest supermarket is miles of ocean away.

Wealthsimple has a robust offering for socially responsible investing, as well as halal investing products that comply with Islamic law.

For Dana Gas to suggest that its earlier board was wrong to the tune of $ 700 million, or worse yet that Islamic law had somehow changed in a few years through an abrupt alteration of opinion by the world of respected Islamic scholars is... troubling.

And when an issuer prepares an Islamic finance structure like this, it invariably gets a sign - off from a shariah - compliance board of respected Islamic law experts (sometimes several such boards).

Dana asserted that the mudarabah structure had been superseded by other structures, such as a leasing arrangement called ijarah, though in Islamic law as in other legal families, there are often multiple permissible ways of achieving a goal, not just one.

I can not tell you what is or is not allowed under Islamic law.

Amana Growth Investor (AMAGX) and Amana Income Investor (AMANX) are run in adherence to Islamic law, meaning they do not invest in businesses involving alcohol, gambling, tobacco or pornography.

The fee is not considered as interest, which is not permitted under Islamic law, but depends on the direction of a trader's position.

What Wealthsimple offers American investors is robust socially responsible investment offerings, as well as halal investing products, which comply with Islamic law; free tax - loss harvesting, which is ideal for investors with large taxable accounts; clear pricing; stripped - down, beginner - friendly customer experience (earning the «simple» in Wealthsimple's name); and unfettered access to financial planners.

Customers with a lower risk tolerance are advised to hold a certain percentage of their portfolio in cash since investment in interest - bearing assets (e.g. bonds) is not allowed under Islamic law.

Would you care if your grandchildren, a minority like the Maronites (Roman Catholics) in Lebanon, are ruled by Islamic Law?

Would you care if immigrants are ruled by Islamic Law?