A Lebanese Moslem told about its existence and application in the Islamic tradition as the `` divine law '', while a C.A.I.P. member who has been working in close association with delegates of the new U.N. nations told of its widespread recognition on the African continent.

`` What is the point '', Charles Adams reports the Pakistanis as asking, `` in demanding an Islamic state and society if no one, not even the doctors of the sacred law themselves, can say clearly and succinctly what the nature of such a state and society is ''??

Absorbing this heady atmosphere, Yahya and Abu Imran fell into conversation on the state of the faith in their western homelands, and Yahya expressed his disappointment on the lack of religious education and negligence of Islamic law among his southern Sanhaja people.

And, in Ibn Yasin's ideology, anything and everything outside of Islamic law could be characterized as " opposition ".

The Islamic law of inheritance ( Sura 4, ayah 11 ) defines exactly how the estate is calculated after death of an individual.

The complexity of this law served as an impetus behind the development of algebra ( Arabic: al-jabr ) by the Persian mathematician Muhammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī and other medieval Islamic mathematicians.

Khwārizmī's " The Compendious Book on Calculation by Completion and Balancing " ( Arabic: Hisab al-jabr w ' al-muqabala, Baghdad, c. 825 ) devoted a chapter on the solution to the Islamic law of inheritance using linear equations .< ref >

When India became part of the British Empire, there was a break in tradition, and Hindu and Islamic law were supplanted by the common law.

Much of the Muslim world uses Sharia ( also called Islamic law ).

Some forms of Islamic law, as in Saudi Arabia, may require capital punishment, but there is great variation within Islamic nations as to actual capital punishment.

Mansur hoped to establish a Transcaucasus Islamic state under shari ' a law, but was unable to fully achieve this because in the course of the war he was wounded and captured, and for unknown reasons, died.

Change of Islamic law is not possible, but were there a concubine in the modern era, she must be given all her due rights that Islam has preserved in the past.

More specifically, it involves study of the different legal systems in existence in the world, including the common law, the civil law, socialist law, Islamic law, Hindu law, and Chinese law.

Islamic schools of law ( Madh ' hab ) have interpreted this as a strict prohibition of the consumption of all types of alcohol and declared it to be haraam (" sinful "), although other uses may be permitted.

Technically it refers to the body of Islamic law extracted from detailed Islamic sources ( which are studied in the principles of Islamic jurisprudence ) and the process of gaining knowledge of Islam through jurisprudence.

Islamic law ( fiqh ) covers two main areas:

The Islamic doctrine of Tawhid puts forth a God whose rule, will or law are comprehensive and extend to all creatures and to all aspects of the human life.

As one Islamic theologian puts it,

α. Al-Mutawakkil Alallah ( also spelled in Arabic as Motawakkil Alallah ), which means " He who puts his trust in God " is an Islamic title used by the Sultan.

Islamic anti-circumcision groups, such as Qur ' an Alone ( the principle that by universal agreement of Islamic scholars puts one out of fold of Islam ), have also emerged, arguing among other things that routine circumcision is an insult to Allah since it tries to improve on his perfect creation.

According to Islamic law ( sharia ) it is classified as hirabah, or violent crime under a category of causing disorder in the land due to Qur ' an ordinances about those who create anarchy ( Arabic: fasad ), similar to highway robbery as it puts fear in people going out or losing their property through fear of violence.

Chiang ordered Ma Bufang to prepare his Islamic army to invade Tibet several times, to deter Tibetan independence, and threatened them with aerial bombardment.

Continuing instability along Ethiopia's borders with Sudan and Somalia contributes to tension with the National Islamic Front regime in Sudan and several factions in Somalia.

Islamic scholars have said that, while male circumcision is a sunna, or religious obligation, female genital modification is not required, and several have issued a fatwa against Type III FGM.

The Kingdom of Asturias became the main base for Christian resistance to Islamic rule in the Iberian Peninsula for several centuries.

Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, at least three of which were of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science.

Islamic texts refer to several levels of heaven: Firdaus or Paradise, ' Adn, Na ' iim, Na ' wa, Darussalaam, Daarul Muaqaamah, Al-Muqqamul, Amin & Khuldi.

After several wars including the Battle of Rajasthan, where the Hindu Rajput clans defeated the Umayyad Arabs, their expansion was checked and contained to Sindh in Pakistan, many short-lived Islamic kingdoms ( sultanates ) under foreign rulers were established across the north western subcontinent over a period of a few centuries.

* The resurgence of Islamic devotion and the attraction to things Islamic can be traced to several events.

These groups include several mentioned above: al-Gama ' a al-Islamiyya ( Islamic Group ) of Egypt, Islamist groups in Algeria, Hamas and Islamic Jihad in Gaza and the West Bank, and Osama bin Laden and his al-Qaeda group.

Ptolemy was the author of several scientific treatises, at least three of which were of continuing importance to later Islamic and European science.

,, " the Recapturing ") is a centuries-long period in the Middle Ages in which several Christian kingdoms succeeded in reconquering the Iberian Peninsula from the Islamic kingdoms collectively known as Al-Andalus.

Following this defeat, the Islamic Courts Union splintered into several different factions.

Following this defeat, the Islamic Courts Union splintered into several different factions.

Islamic law also made " major contributions " to international admiralty law, departing from the previous Roman and Byzantine maritime laws in several ways.

The inclusion of an Islamist party committed to secular government ( Islamic Renaissance Party ) and several other parties in the Parliamentary elections represented an improvement in the Tajik people's right to choose their government.

The UAE is a member of the following international organizations: UN and several of its specialized agencies ( ICAO, ILO, UPU, WHO, WIPO ); World Bank, IMF, Arab League, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation ( OIC ), OPEC, Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries, and the Non-Aligned Movement.

Those who believe and those who are Jews and Christians, and Sabians, whoever believes in Allah and the Last Day and do righteous good deeds shall have their reward with their Lord, on them shall be no fear, nor shall they grieve ... let there be no compulsion in religion "-that all monotheistic religions or people of the book have a chance of salvation, to the most exclusive teaching common amongst Salafis and Wahhabis, and supported by several works of medieval Islamic theology and by traditions ( hadith ) which are considered correct ( sahih ) by Sunni Muslims, for the most part are summed up in Surah 9: 5, 29: " Then, when the sacred months have passed, slay the idolaters wherever ye find them, and take them, and besiege them, and lay in wait in every stratagem of war.

By contrast, religion is also central to the lives of several X-Men, such as Nightcrawler, a devout Catholic, and Dust, a devout Sunni Muslim who wears an Islamic hijab.

Many primarily Palestinian political parties, including George Habash's Arab Nationalist Movement, Hajj Amin al-Husseini's Arab Higher Committee, the Islamic Liberation Front and several Syrian-backed groups, virtually crumbled after their sponsor governments ' defeat.

** Members of the Armed Islamic Group in Algeria kill 7 French Trappist monks, after talks with French government concerning the imprisonment of several GIA sympathisers break down.

Other scholars, however, both Western and Muslim, argue that the text of the agreement -- whether a single document originally or several -- is possibly one of the oldest Islamic texts we possess.

Thereafter it was used very widely across the Islamic world, by no means just in Arabic-speaking areas, in many media for several centuries, and developed further.

* Averroes, Islamic Philosophy Online ( links to works by and about Averroes in several languages )