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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Divine law"”.
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Natural Law Theory Under the Sun How Iranian Political Thought Viewed Tyranny as Opposed to The West
… to explore and unravel the theory of natural law within its Greek context and its influence on political thought, particularly addressing the need to counteract the damages of tyranny and the cyclical succession of regimes, as articulated by Plato. This study reveals that the concept of …
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Civilizational Jihad: The Implications of Terrorist Strategy
… of the universal dissemination of the religion, law, and polity of the Islamic concept of God and divine law. The transformational first action necessary to upgrade the capabilities of the strategic vision of our national security community must be to incorporate this un-fettered understanding of …
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Conflicts of Law in Antebellum America: Criticism of the United States Constitution and the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act in the Works of William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, Lysander Spooner, Lydia Maria Child, and Herman Melville
… criticism of slavery and the conflicts of law that they presented are not as well known. Viewing the struggle for African American freedom and equality through the writing of certain Antebellum writers who articulated their concerns about slavery presents a unique opportunity to see their …
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The Problem of Life: Governing Bodies Before and Beyond Biopolitics
… governs through sovereign command authorized by divine law, identifying and destroying bodies whose demonic corruption threatens the theological-political order. Alexis de Tocqueville’s moeurs-politique wildtype governs through the habits, sentiments, and civic practices that democratic equality …
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Islamic law and social change : a legal perspective
… process of discovering and formulating the Divine law and the elements that contribute towards it is subjected to scrutiny to ascertain whether it is proceeding according to the general provisions made for it in terms of the principles of the law or, whether this crucial process has since …
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A legal study of the right to life in the European Convention on Human Rights and Islam
… inside its jurisdiction and outside it. Islamic law or Shariah is a major legal system that commands a great deal of respect and compliance in and around the geographical territories of the Council of Europe and thus the Convention. Shariah is a legal system based on religion. It offers a …
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Misplaced Methodologies: The Legal Hermeneutics of Muḥammad b. al Ḥasan al-Shaybānῑ (d.189/804)
As a student of Islamic law, one quickly comes to the realisation that much of the historiography of early Islamic law reads like a love letter to Muḥammad b. al-Idrῑs al-Shāfiʿῑ (d.204/820). Such renditions remain as an ode to the ‘master architect,’ the ‘deus ex machina’ who emerged victorious at …
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A Conceptual Model for the Professional Practice of Seventh-day Adventist Educational Administration Based on the Proclamations of the Three Angels of Revelation 14
… which increases institutional harmony with divine laws and principles. A diagrammatic representation of the model is developed. The model is applied to several cases in order to demonstrate its usefulness in practice. The study has been submitted to a panel of experts and their evaluations …
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Legitimacy of power in the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
… that led to the creation of the constitutional law of the Islamic republic of Iran, I (the author) noticed a series of ambiguous and often contradictory points in its contents. Discovering the roots and the causes of such contradictions became my priority. After the Iranian Revolution (1979) …
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Being Human: Fine-Tuning Moral Naturalism
… is the thought that the absence of belief in a divine law giver creates special problems for the putative authority of moral considerations. If we are to avoid moral scepticism, so this line of thought goes, we must show how moral requirements serve or express our natural purposes. The second …
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Talak dalam perspektif Sayyid Quthb dan Quraish Shihab
… ENGLISH: The interpretation of the verses of the law never stopped transformed in the study of tafsir. Likewise interpretation that occurred among both the mufassirs classic to contemporary mufassirs are very diverse in interpreting the verses of the Qur’an. Particularly with respect to verses …
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Dominion Shifts in Biblical Apocalyptic Literature: a Narrative Reading of Daniel 7 and Revelation 12-14 Vis-À-Vis Genesis 1-3
… shifts (changes in rulership/administration) and divine legislation.</p> <p>Methodology</p> <p>This dissertation focuses on three crucial texts of the biblical metanarrative (Gen 1–3; Dan 7; Rev 12–14) in order to better understand their narrative function or contribution to the development of the …