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Mosaic
| Mar 13, 2013
UN investigators examining 20 alleged massacres in Syria say regime forces carried out six of the eight confirmed atrocities. Meanwhile, al-Nusra Front is imposing harsh, Taliban-style regulations in areas under its control, mostly in Deir Ez-Zo...
Vice
| Mar 11, 2013
The always-cheeky Vice travels to Kabul to find happy hordes of Afghan men turning their backs on sharia bans against gambling to put their money down on fighting dogs and quail. One long-time "underworld" gambler who fashions himself as something...
CNN
| Jan 31, 2013
A small group of hard-line Islamists try to impose Sharia law in East London with foot patrols targeting public drinking and "inappropriate" dress. They may not represent mainstream Muslim opinion in the UK, but CNN's Dan Rivers reports that it's ...
Telegraph.co.uk
| Jan 29, 2013
Shops and businesses in Timbuktu belonging to defeated militant Islamist rebels are being looted as furious locals tell of torture, amputations and floggings for breaking Sharia. One man linked to the Islamists was nearly lynched until he was save...
LinkAsia
| Jan 11, 2013
Authorities in Indonesia's Aceh province have proposed a law that would require women to ride side-saddle on motorcycles instead of straddling them. Contributor Rachel Will looks at the reactions in social media, ranging from proponents saying tha...
Euronews
| Jan 2, 2013
Satirical French weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo has released a special edition about Islam that may trigger fresh protests. It is publishing a comic book biography of the Prophet Mohammed's life. The magazine has previously sparked anger over its ...
Aswat Masriya
| Dec 23, 2012
Early results suggest Egyptians have approved a new constitution in a referendum vote marred by reports of irregularities. A second round of voting was conducted with few reports of protest, but opposition are quick to point out the dramatically l...
Amnesty International
| Dec 4, 2012
The 14-month conflict between government forces and Al Qaeda-linked militants in southern Yemen was a huge but largely overlooked human rights catastrophe, an Amnesty International report finds. Ansar al-Sharia militants were responsible for summa...
BBC Arabic
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Mosaic
| Nov 14, 2012
BBC Arabic reports that the Ansar al-Din group, which rules the northern part of Mali with other groups, said it no longer aims to impose Sharia, or Islamic law, across Mali. However, it still wants to impose it in Kida, one of its strongholds in ...
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— May 10 at 01:08 am
...over the article on women’s rights. Women in Egypt and the Middle East already do not have enough rights as they should. If the constitution goe...
— Apr 8, 2012 at 10:47 am
...early due to a faulty timing mechanism. The group has exploited a decline in central government control that accompanied Arab Spring-inspired pr...
— Jul 6, 2012 at 06:01 am
...said, reading from a statement. "As such the National Transitional Council recommends that the (next) congress make sharia the main source of le...
Sharia is the moral code and religious law of Islam. Sharia deals with many topics addressed by secular law, including crime, politics, and economics, as well as personal matters such as sexual intercourse, hygiene, diet, prayer, and fasting. Though interpretations of sharia vary between cultures, in its strictest definition it is considered the infallible law of God—as opposed to the human interpretation of the laws.
There are two primary sources of sharia law: the precepts set forth in the Quran, and the example set by the Islamic prophet Muhammad in the Sunnah. Where it has official status, sharia is interpreted by Islamic judges with varying responsibilities for the religious leaders. For questions not directly addressed in the primary sources, the application of sharia is extended through consensus of the religious scholars thought to embody the consensus of the Muslim Community. Islamic jurisprudence will also sometimes incorporate analogies from the Quran and Sunnah through qiyas, though Shia jurists prefer reasoning to analogy.
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