By Sheza Alqera Atiq Pakistan: Penal Code [Pakistan], S.295-C, S. 298-B, S. 298-C, Chapter XV, Act No. XLV, 6 Octber 1860, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/485231942.html [accessed 12 November 2018] Summary: The legislation … Continue reading A Question About Blasphemy: Amendments 298-B and 298-C in Pakistan’s Penal Code
Nābulsī and Talfīq
By Aaron Spevack Source: Al-Nābulsī, Khulāṣah al-Taḥqīq fī Bayān Ḥukm al-Taqlīd wa al-Talfīq: Chapter 6: Regarding the elucidation of the ruling on talfīq. Nābulsī begins his chapter with the division … Continue reading Nābulsī and Talfīq
Hāshiyat al-Bajūrī
By Aaron Spevack Source: Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī, Ḥāshiya al-Shaykh Ibrāhīm al-Bājūrī ʿalā Sharḥ al-ʿAlāma Ibn al- Qāsim al-Ghazzī ʿalā Matn al-Shaykh Abī Shujāʿ. Beirut: Dār al-Kutūb al-ʿIlmiyya, 1999. The excerpt that … Continue reading Hāshiyat al-Bajūrī
Al-Qarāfī’s collection of legal distinctions
By Mariam Sheibani Source: Al-Qarāfī, Shihāb al-Dīn. Kitāb al-furūq aw Anwār al-burūq fī anwāʿ al-furūq. 3rd ed. Edited by Muḥammad Sarrāj and ʿAlī Jumuʿa. 2 vols. Cairo: Dār al-Salām, 2010. … Continue reading Al-Qarāfī’s collection of legal distinctions
Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ’s fatwā
By Mariam Sheibani Source: Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ al-Shahrazūrī. Fatāwā wa-masāʾil Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ. Edited by ʿAbd al-Muṭīʿ Amīn Qalʿajī. 2 vols. Beirut: Dār al-Maʿrifa, 1986/1406. General Description: This excerpt is a response … Continue reading Ibn al-Ṣalāḥ’s fatwā
The Golden Collection of the Law’s Maxims
By Mariam Sheibani Source: Al-ʿAlāʾī, Ṣalāḥ al-Dīn Khalīl. Al-Majmūʿ al-mudhhab fī qawāʿid al-madhhab. Edited by Majīd ʿAlī al-ʿUbaydī and Aḥmad Khudayrʿ Abbās. 2 vols. Amman: Dār ʿImār, 1425/2004. General Description: … Continue reading The Golden Collection of the Law’s Maxims
The Duality of State Law and Sharīʿa in the Islamic Republic of Iran
By Marzieh Tofighi Darian Islamic Republic of Iran has designed an elaborate and stringent system of Islamic constitutionalism under its 1979 Constitution. Not only does the Constitution aim at making … Continue reading The Duality of State Law and Sharīʿa in the Islamic Republic of Iran
Women’s Rights and the Guardian Council’s Barrier
By Marzieh Tofighi Darian In recent months, there has been a spike in the number of bills that members of Parliament and the executive branch have proposed and presented to … Continue reading Women’s Rights and the Guardian Council’s Barrier
Can one found a church on the open sea under an Islamic government?
By Ohannes Kilicdagi Description of the source: This document is a communication between the office of the Grand Wazīr and Shaykh al-Islām in 1847. It requests permission by the chief … Continue reading Can one found a church on the open sea under an Islamic government?
Protection of Rights through the Criminal Prosecution of State Officials
By Marzieh Tofighi Darian Fundamental rights and freedoms constitute an integral part of most modern constitutions. To ensure these fundamental liberties are secured from government encroachments, most constitutions establish legal … Continue reading Protection of Rights through the Criminal Prosecution of State Officials