Sentences with phrase «islamic legal tradition»

For example, Shirin Ebadi, the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, who is greatly honored by many Iranians (and opposed by others), repeatedly invokes Islamic legal tradition to support women's rights and other human rights.

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To prove their point, these Islam - is - the - problem critics tend to link specific acts of jihadi groups to a string of references from Islamic scripture, traditions, legal texts, and Muslim scholarly opinions.

The director of the Initiative on Islam and Medicine and a faculty member of the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Padela was honored for his scholarship in the Islamic ethico - legal tradition and the ways it influences the health behaviors of Muslim patients and the lives of Muslim physicians.

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«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.