Financial services providers such as First National Bank, ABSA bank, Standard Bank and Nedbank offer Sharia compliant financial solutions and banking products.

Malaysia's legal system is based on English Common Law, alongside a Sharia court system for Malaysian Muslims.

In conservative Islamic nations, laws generally prohibit same-sex sexual behaviour, and interpretation of Sharia Law on male homosexuality carries the death penalty.

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy, although, according to the Basic Law of Saudi Arabia adopted by royal decree in 1992, the king must comply with Sharia ( that is, Islamic law ) and the Quran.

Democratization and Islamic Law – The Sharia Conflict in Nigeria.

Although there is much debate as to which states or groups operate strictly according to Islamic Law, Sharia is the official basis for state laws in the following countries: Yemen, Afghanistan, Somalia, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Mauritania, Oman and Iran.

Islamic Sharia Law regarding hunting is the same as Jewish law, in that only non-preying animals that can be considered halal for food can be hunted, but only for food and not as blood-sport.

In 1995, fearing the installation of Sharia Law, which would result in Algeria becoming an Islamic State, the Algerian Army stopped free elections that were likely to bring an Islamist party to power.

The The Maxims of Ptahhotep, Sharia Law, and Mosaic law also include certifications for professionals like doctors, lawyers and skilled craftsmen which prescribe penalties for malpractice very similar to the code of Hammurabi.

On August 5, 1990, 45 foreign ministers of the OIC adopted the Cairo Declaration on Human Rights in Islam to serve as a guidance for the member states in the matters of human rights in as much as they are compatible with the Sharia, or Quranic Law.

With East Timor gaining its independence, Indonesia currently has 33 provinces, seven of which have been created since 1999 ( North Maluku, West Papua, Banten, Bangka-Belitung Islands, Gorontalo, Riau Islands and West Sulawesi ) and five provinces received special status: Aceh, for the use of the Sharia Law as the regional law of the province ; Yogyakarta Special Region, for being governed in an ancient monarchy system ; Papua, for implementation of sustainable development ; West Papua, for granting implementation of sustainable development ; and Jakarta Special Capital Region.

Bert was also described by Jon Stewart on March 18, 2010 as " A fastidious, pigeon-worshiping, felt tyrant whose draconian Sharia Law allows for neither loud noise or rubber duckies.

Other civil codes used since ancient times include various texts used in religious laws, such as the Law of Manu in Hindu law, the Mishnah in Jewish Halakha law, the Canons of the Apostles in Christian Canon law, and the Qur ' an and Sunnah in Islamic Sharia law to some extent.

( Hons ) Sharia and Law has been introduced by the International Islamic University, Islamabad.

Sharia Law applies to all people inside Saudi Arabia, regardless of religion.

Adolat assumed civil authority in Namangan and quickly established a degree of order and security through the imposition of Sharia Law, which was ruthlessly enforced by Adolat's vigilante cadres.

According to this view, Ali as the successor of Muhammad not only ruled over the community in justice, but also interpreted the Sharia Law and its esoteric meaning.

Sharia Law is not compatible with our principles, our values or democracy .”

More conservative religious scholars formed the Ulema Jemyeti ( Board of Learned Men ), more concerned with safeguarding Islamic institutions and Sharia Law.

This was to be the nucleus of an autonomous state in Turkestan, governed by Sharia Law.

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Dismemberment is no longer used by most modern governments as a form of execution or torture, though amputation is still carried out in countries that practice Sharia Law.

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Regarding the opposition of moderate Muslims to the introduction of Sharia tribunals in Canada, Elmasry wrote that Canadian Muslims should not " make a cause of publicly deriding their religion, badmouthing the Prophet, ridiculing the Qur ' an and mounting uninformed crusades to smear their Islamic Law, the Shariah.

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

Leading Islamist thinkers emphasize the enforcement of Sharia ( Islamic law ); of pan-Islamic political unity ; and of the elimination of non-Muslim, particularly Western military, economic, political, social, or cultural influences in the Muslim world, which they believe to be incompatible with Islam.

Maududi also believed that Muslim society could not be Islamic without Sharia, and Islam required the establishment of an Islamic state.

He believed that imitation of the early Muslims and the restoration of Sharia law were essential to Islam, that secular, Westernizing Muslims were actually agents of the West serving Western interests, and that the " plundering " of Muslim lands was part of a long-term conspiracy against Islam by the Christian West.

His concept of velayat-e-faqih (" guardianship of the jurist "), held that the leading Shia Muslim cleric in society – which Khomeini and his followers believed to be himself – should serve as head of state in order to protect or " guard " Islam and Sharia law from " innovation " and " anti-Islamic laws " passed " by sham parliaments.

Sharia in the secular Muslim states: Muslim countries such as Mali, Kazakhstan and Turkey have declared themselves to be secular.

Pakistan has Islam as its only official religion and its Federal Shariat Court has the duty of striking down any law not complying with the Sharia code of Islamic law ; however, ruling falls upon legal scholars who, while required to be Muslim, are not religious clergy.

Rather, Muslim jurists made the offense part of Sharia ; the penalties for blasphemy can include fines, imprisonment, flogging, amputation, hanging, or beheading.

In a series of Washington Times articles from February to June 2009, Gaffney accused the Obama administration of effectively adopting the Muslim Brotherhood's plan for the Middle East ; Sharia law.

He developed a critique of existing African Muslim elites for what he saw as their greed, paganism, or violation of the standards of Sharia law, and heavy taxation.

Muslim law is based on the Sharia.

In India, courts have ruled that Sharia, Muslim law, holds precedence for Muslims over Indian civil law, which caused considerable anguish among Nationalists and fueled allegations of pseudo-secularism against the judiciary as well.

The conquering Arab armies took the system of Sharia laws and courts to their new military camps and cities, and built mosques for Friday jam ' at ( community prayers ) as well as Madrasahs to educate local Muslim youth.

Sharia law was established in northern Nigeria's mostly Muslim state Zamfara in 2000 and has since spread to at least twelve other states.

This allowed exceptions to republican law, including Sharia laws applied by Islamic customary courts to Muslim women regarding inheritance, polygamy and repudiation.

When taken literally, Takfir also had the effect of causing non-Qutbists who claimed to be Muslim in violation of Sharia law, a law that Qutb very much supported.

Proceedings of the neighboring Muslim peoples continued to take place on folk customs and Sharia law.

In addition to propagating the legalization of the Sharia law within the Muslim communities, the goal of the Ittihadists was to prevent the formation of independent nation-states on the Muslim-populated territories of the Russian Empire.

Thousands of people have died in fighting since the passage of Sharia law in the Muslim dominated northern region after a return to civilian rule in 1999.

The zina and rape laws of countries under Sharia law are the subjects of heated debate both inside and outside the Muslim world.

Parallel to the civil courts, there are Sharia courts which conduct legal matters related to Muslim family sphere.

Since 2003, these fears have spread among some in the Muslim community, with Datti Ahmed, of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria stating that:

Muftis are Muslim religious scholars who issue influential legal opinions ( fatwas ) interpreting Sharia ( Islamic law ).