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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"Religious law"”.
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A Postcolonial Inquiry of Women's Political Agency in Aceh, Indonesia: Towards a Muslim Feminist Approach?
… post-secular politics. I address the need for a religious feminist model of subjectivity that incorporates both the political and ethical dimensions of agency in potentially non-patriarchal and non-state-centric formations. I suggest a communal understanding of religious law as an alternative to …
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Managing socio-religious expectations in an intimate space : examining Muslim-interfaith marriage amongst working class communities in Cape Town
… communities in Cape Town. It also explores the religious identity of individuals and its effect on the marriage. Interfaith marriage has become increasingly prevalent amongst Muslims in South Africa. Moreover, while it is often assumed that Muslims in whatever context follow Islamic law in their …
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Holiness and humanism: a comparative-religions commentary on book 2 of Cicero’s laws, with special reference to Confucianism and Chinese thought
… to ancient times and traditions (4), God's Law and his judgment on human laws (5-6), tension between Roman religion and Greek philosophy (7), and the setting forth of Cicero's code of religious law (8), the code covers whom to worship (9), the power of Cicero's own priesthood (10), religion …
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Flesh yours, bones mine : the making of the biomedical subject in Turkey
… of trade. This dissertation tries to understand religious, political and ethical discourses on this emerging economy and how it creates its subjects in Turkey. By drawing analogies from the early days of anatomy and mental health practices and by using a three-fold-corpus (state, body and law) as …
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The rise of an Ibadi religious revival movement and its impacts on the society and built environment in the Mzab (Saharan Maghrib, 1868-1914)
… study is about the rise of a nineteenth century religious renewal movement among Ibadi Mzabis, a sectarian and Saharan community. It looks at how this group responded to the local effects of a re-globalising world and redefined its sectarian identity to strengthen itself. The movement, which I …
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British-Muslim Family Law as a Site of Citizenship
… Archbishop of Canterbury’s speech on ‘Civil and Religious Law in England’, delivered a decade ago, attracted considerable public and academic attention. In the years that followed a ‘Sharia debate’ emerged, where traces of (legal) orientalism became especially visible in an essentialist portrayal …
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Marriage and celibacy in mediaeval Islam : a study of Ghazali's Kitāb ādāb al-nikāḥ'
… Three main influences are addressed: a religious debate on the merits of marriage, the particular Muslim attitude to sexuality, and the Islamic legal view of marriage. The Kitab adab al-nikah was written in the context of a religious debate on the merits of marriage and celibacy, a …
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Marriage, the Family, and Security in Israel: The Paradox of the Liberal State
… of amendments to Israel's personal status laws (PSLs) - ""laws governing marriage, divorce, death, inheritance, and adoption. I found that separate ethno-religious groups, including Arab Muslims, non-Western Jews, and non-religious persons (including some secular Jews), do not enjoy equal …
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Philosophy as a Path to Happiness : Attainment of Happiness in Arabic Peripatetic and Ismaili Philosophy
… from the worldly life. The regulations of the religious law in this context appear as the primary means for the soul s purification, but for all but al-Kirmānī they are complemented by auxiliary philosophical practices. The ascent to happiness, however, takes place primarily through the …
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Eternality and Fluidity of Dharma in the Dharmaśāstra Tradition: A Case Study of Women’s Personhood from Manusmṛti to Manubhāṣya
… the Dharmaśāstra as a static and immutable socio-religious law. It contends that the Dharmaśāstra tradition may be more accurately understood as a dynamic intellectual system that has a demonstrable capacity for adaptation over time. This study investigates the concept of women's dharma …
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Islamic Law of Warfare and the Question of Suicide Terrorism: An Usuli Twelver Shia Perspective
… may lead one to decide that it is Islamic law per se that is the driving force behind the current phenomenon of suicide terrorism. Since it was the Twelver Shia Muslims of Lebanon who began the use of suicide tactics in its current form, Shia Islam, as the branch of the faith in which its …
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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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Islamic Mortgages: A Comparative Study to Improve the Legal and Financial System of Mortgages in the Royal Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with a Regulatory Analysis of the US and UK, and Case Analyses of the UK, Sharjah, Dubai and Saudi Arabia
… Europe, all of which are subject to common law contractual processes. However, it would be natural to suppose that further development of the Saudi Arabian and other Islamic legal systems would include securitisation techniques in the near future. Indeed, certain Islamic finance structures …
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עבירה לשמה
… the rabbinic culture in which Halakhah (Jewish religious law) plays such a central role, this concept, seems almost like a foreign body in the Talmudic corpus. The study focuses on the linguistic stratum of RNBI’s statement. By tracking the development of the meanings and uses of the word …
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An Urban Design Method for Rehabilitating Historic cities in Iran: The Case of Shiraz Historic Fabric
… patterns, as well as the influence of religious law on the structure of city development, urban activities and socio-economics. Therefore, the aim of this research is to develop an urban design method to establish new principles for rehabilitation of historic cities in Iran. The …
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Pengaruh suku bunga konvensiomal, inflasi dan bagi hasil terhadap penghimpunan dana mudharabah pada bank umum syariah periode 2010-2013
… motives but still based on the teachings of religious law so that the greater the number of revenue-sharing, the more likely the bank raise capital from third parties.
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Studi terhadap banyaknya perkara yang belum terselesaikan setiap tahun di Pengadilan Agama Lumajang
… on time. Based on 2011 Year-End Report of the Religious Court Lumajang, from 3456 cases had been received, there are still 828 cases or 23.96% are unfinished. This fact became the academic anxiety for researcher, it is important to be questioned. What factors are the obstacles of cases …
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Dasar pertimbangan hakim dalam memutuskan harta gono gini di Pengadilan Agama Malang
… accordance with the provisions of Article 37 of Law No. 1 of 1974 on Marriage does not set forth how many parts each divorced husband or wife both live and divorce divorce die. Article 37 paragraph (1) states when the marriage broke up because of divorce, the joint property governed by the law of …
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Pembaharuan hukum waris Islam di Indonesia: Telaah sosio historis pembaharuan waris Islam menuju Kompilasi Hukum Islam
… in various legal systems, such as customary law, religious law, as well as the positive law of the Dutch heritage. In an effort to reduce the possibility of strife, divisions, or different interpretations due to the effect of legal pluralism, in the event of a dispute, then the problem of …
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Sharia in the city: negotiation and construction of moral space
… The goal here is not just to show that the religious (for instance, sharia) and the non-religious/secular (grocery stores, restaurants, farms) are intertwined but to what extent these seemingly separate and disparate domains and spaces may be concurrently called upon within the framework of …