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Since the early Islamic states of the eighth and ninth centuries, Islamic law (also known as [[sharia]]) always existed alongside other [[normative]] systems.<ref>{{cite book|last=Otto|first=Jan Michiel|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present|year=2009|publisher=Leiden University Press|location=Leiden|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=615–16|url=http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|access-date=13 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105224404/http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|archive-date=5 November 2013| |
Since the early Islamic states of the eighth and ninth centuries, Islamic law (also known as [[sharia]]) always existed alongside other [[normative]] systems.<ref>{{cite book|last=Otto|first=Jan Michiel|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present|year=2009|publisher=Leiden University Press|location=Leiden|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=615–16|url=http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|access-date=13 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105224404/http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|archive-date=5 November 2013|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> |
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Historically, sharia was interpreted by independent jurists ([[mufti]]s), based on Islamic scriptural sources and various legal methodologies.<ref name=vikor/> In the modern era, statutes inspired by European codes replaced traditional laws in most parts of the Muslim world, with classical sharia rules retained mainly in [[Status (law)|personal status]] (family) laws.<ref name=vikor/><ref>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |page=19 |access-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009235043/https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2017 | |
Historically, sharia was interpreted by independent jurists ([[mufti]]s), based on Islamic scriptural sources and various legal methodologies.<ref name=vikor/> In the modern era, statutes inspired by European codes replaced traditional laws in most parts of the Muslim world, with classical sharia rules retained mainly in [[Status (law)|personal status]] (family) laws.<ref name=vikor/><ref>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |page=19 |access-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009235043/https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> These laws were codified by legislative bodies which sought to modernize them without abandoning their foundations in traditional jurisprudence.<ref name=vikor/><ref name=mayer/> The [[Islamic revival]] of the late 20th century brought along calls by [[Islamist]] movements for full implementation of sharia, including ''[[hudud]]'' corporal punishments, such as [[stoning]], which in some cases resulted in traditionalist legal reform.<ref name=vikor/><ref name=mayer/> Some countries with Muslim minorities use sharia-based laws to regulate marriage, inheritance and other personal affairs of their Muslim population. |
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==Historical background== |
==Historical background== |
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[[Sharia]] is a [[religious law]] forming part of the [[Islam]]ic tradition.<ref name=oxforddic>{{cite web |title=British & World English: sharia |url=https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sharia |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=4 December 2015 |location=Oxford |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208120345/https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sharia |archive-date=8 December 2015 | |
[[Sharia]] is a [[religious law]] forming part of the [[Islam]]ic tradition.<ref name=oxforddic>{{cite web |title=British & World English: sharia |url=https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sharia |publisher=Oxford University Press |accessdate=4 December 2015 |location=Oxford |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151208120345/https://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sharia |archive-date=8 December 2015 |url-status=live }}</ref> Traditional [[Principles of Islamic jurisprudence|theory of Islamic jurisprudence]] recognizes four [[sources of sharia]]: the Quran, ''[[sunnah]]'' (authentic hadith), ''[[qiyas]]'' (analogical reasoning), and ''[[ijma]]'' (juridical consensus).<ref name="Esposito, John 2001">[[John Esposito|John L. Esposito]], [[Natana J. DeLong-Bas]] (2001), ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=MOmaDq8HKCgC&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false Women in Muslim family law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171019170646/https://books.google.com/books?id=MOmaDq8HKCgC&pg=PA2#v=onepage&q&f=false |date=19 October 2017 }}'', p. 2. [[Syracuse University Press]], {{ISBN|978-0815629085}}. Quote: "[...], by the ninth century, the classical theory of law fixed the sources of Islamic law at four: the ''Quran'', the ''Sunnah'' of the Prophet, ''qiyas'' (analogical reasoning), and ''ijma'' (consensus)."</ref> Different [[Madhhab|legal schools]]—of which the most prominent are [[Hanafi]], [[Maliki]], [[Shafi'i]], [[Hanbali]] and [[Ja'fari jurisprudence|Jafari]]—developed methodologies for deriving sharia rulings from scriptural sources.<ref name=ODI>{{cite encyclopedia |title=Islamic Law |editor=John L. Esposito |encyclopedia=The Oxford Dictionary of Islam |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2014 |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t125/e1107 |accessdate=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331154513/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t125/e1107 |archive-date=31 March 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=vikor>{{cite encyclopedia |ref=harv |first=Knut S. |last=Vikør |title=Sharīʿah |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of Islam and Politics |publisher=Oxford University Press |editor=Emad El-Din Shahin |year=2014 |url=http://bridgingcultures.neh.gov/muslimjourneys/items/show/226 |accessdate=3 September 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170202054116/http://bridgingcultures.neh.gov/muslimjourneys/items/show/226 |archive-date=2 February 2017 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> Traditional jurisprudence (''[[fiqh]]'') distinguishes two principal branches of law, ''[[Ibadah|ʿibādāt]]'' (rituals) and ''[[Muamalat|muʿāmalāt]]'' (social relations), which together comprise a wide range of topics.<ref name=ODI/><ref name=calder>{{cite encyclopedia |ref=harv |first=Norman |last=Calder |title=Law. Legal Thought and Jurisprudence |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |editor=John L. Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2009 |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473 |accessdate=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731040109/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473 |archive-date=31 July 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Thus, some areas of sharia overlap with the Western notion of law while others correspond more broadly to living life in accordance with God’s will.<ref name=vikor/> |
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Classical jurisprudence was elaborated by private [[Ulama|religious scholars]], largely through legal opinions ([[fatwa]]s) issued by qualified jurists ([[mufti]]s). It was historically applied in sharia courts by ruler-appointed [[Qadi|judges]], who dealt mainly with civil disputes and community affairs.<ref name=ODI/><ref name=calder/> [[Mazalim|Sultanic courts]], the [[Shurta|police]] and [[Muhtasib|market inspectors]] administered criminal justice, which was influenced by sharia but not bound by its rules.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |ref=harv |first=Farhat J. |last=Ziadeh |title=Criminal Law |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |editor=John L. Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2009c |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0170 |accessdate=13 April 2019 | |
Classical jurisprudence was elaborated by private [[Ulama|religious scholars]], largely through legal opinions ([[fatwa]]s) issued by qualified jurists ([[mufti]]s). It was historically applied in sharia courts by ruler-appointed [[Qadi|judges]], who dealt mainly with civil disputes and community affairs.<ref name=ODI/><ref name=calder/> [[Mazalim|Sultanic courts]], the [[Shurta|police]] and [[Muhtasib|market inspectors]] administered criminal justice, which was influenced by sharia but not bound by its rules.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |ref=harv |first=Farhat J. |last=Ziadeh |title=Criminal Law |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |editor=John L. Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2009c |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0170 |accessdate=13 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505020530/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0170 |archive-date=5 May 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=calder/> Non-Muslim ([[dhimmi]]) communities had legal autonomy to adjudicate their internal affairs.<ref name=vikor/> Over the centuries, Sunni muftis were gradually incorporated into state bureaucracies,<ref> |
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{{cite encyclopedia|ref=harv|first1=Ahmad S.|last1=Dallal|first2=Jocelyn|last2=Hendrickson|title=Fatwā. Modern usage|encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World|editor=John L. Esposito|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|year=2009|url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0243|accessdate=13 April 2019| |
{{cite encyclopedia|ref=harv|first1=Ahmad S.|last1=Dallal|first2=Jocelyn|last2=Hendrickson|title=Fatwā. Modern usage|encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World|editor=John L. Esposito|publisher=Oxford University Press|location=Oxford|year=2009|url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0243|accessdate=13 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190223185116/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/print/opr/t236/e0243|archive-date=23 February 2019|url-status=live}} |
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</ref> and fiqh was complemented by various economic, criminal and administrative laws issued by Muslim rulers.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Devin J.|last=Stewart|title=Shari'a|editor=Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone|encyclopedia=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2013|page=500}}</ref> The Ottoman [[Mecelle|civil code of 1869–1876]] was the first partial attempt to codify sharia.<ref name=mayer>{{cite encyclopedia |ref=harv |first=Ann Elizabeth |last=Mayer |title=Law. Modern Legal Reform |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |editor=John L. Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2009 |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473#e0473-s5 |accessdate=22 January 2019 | |
</ref> and fiqh was complemented by various economic, criminal and administrative laws issued by Muslim rulers.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Devin J.|last=Stewart|title=Shari'a|editor=Gerhard Böwering, Patricia Crone|encyclopedia=The Princeton Encyclopedia of Islamic Political Thought|publisher=Princeton University Press|year=2013|page=500}}</ref> The Ottoman [[Mecelle|civil code of 1869–1876]] was the first partial attempt to codify sharia.<ref name=mayer>{{cite encyclopedia |ref=harv |first=Ann Elizabeth |last=Mayer |title=Law. Modern Legal Reform |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |editor=John L. Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2009 |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473#e0473-s5 |accessdate=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731040109/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473#e0473-s5 |archive-date=31 July 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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In the modern era, traditional laws in the Muslim world have been widely replaced by statutes inspired by European models.<ref name=vikor/><ref>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |page=19 |access-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009235043/https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2017 | |
In the modern era, traditional laws in the Muslim world have been widely replaced by statutes inspired by European models.<ref name=vikor/><ref>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |page=19 |access-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009235043/https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Judicial procedures and legal education were likewise brought in line with European practice.<ref name=vikor/> While the constitutions of most Muslim-majority states contain references to sharia, its classical rules were largely retained only in [[Status (law)|personal status]] (family) laws.<ref name=vikor/> Legislators who codified these laws sought to modernize them without abandoning their foundations in traditional jurisprudence.<ref name=vikor/><ref name=mayer/> The [[Islamic revival]] of the late 20th century brought along calls by [[Islamist]] movements for full implementation of sharia, including ''[[hudud]]'' corporal punishments, such as [[stoning]]. In some cases, this resulted in traditionalist legal reform, while other countries witnessed juridical reinterpretation of sharia advocated by progressive reformers.<ref name=vikor/><ref name=mayer/><ref>{{cite encyclopedia |ref=harv |first=Intisar A. |last=Rabb |title=Law. Civil Law & Courts |encyclopedia=The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World |editor=John L. Esposito |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |year=2009 |url=http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473#e0473-s6 |accessdate=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170731040109/http://www.oxfordislamicstudies.com/article/opr/t236/e0473#e0473-s6 |archive-date=31 July 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> While ''hudud'' punishments hold symbolic importance for their proponents and have attracted international attention, in countries where they make part of the legal system, they have been used infrequently or not at all, and their application has varied depending on local political climate.<ref name=vikor/><ref>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |page=20 |access-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009235043/https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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Some Muslim-minority countries recognize the use of sharia-based family laws for their Muslim populations.<ref>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf | |
Some Muslim-minority countries recognize the use of sharia-based family laws for their Muslim populations.<ref>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |pages=18–20 |access-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009235043/https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>Stahnke, Tad and Robert C. Blitt (2005), "The Religion-State Relationship and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Predominantly Muslim Countries." Georgetown Journal of International Law, volume 36, issue 4; also see [http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/index2.html Sharia Law profile by Country] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116095035/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/index2.html |date=16 January 2014 }}, Emory University (2011)</ref> The adoption and demand for sharia in the legal system of nations with significant Muslim-minorities is an active topic of international debate.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Brooks-Pollock|first1=Tom|title=The countries where a majority of Muslims want to live under Sharia law|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-countries-where-a-majority-of-muslims-want-to-live-under-sharia-law-a6773666.html|accessdate=10 October 2017|work=The Independent|date=15 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171011073116/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/the-countries-where-a-majority-of-muslims-want-to-live-under-sharia-law-a6773666.html|archive-date=11 October 2017|url-status=live|df=dmy-all}}</ref> Reintroducing sharia in Muslim-majority nations has been described as "a longstanding goal for Islamist movements",<ref>Lapidus, Ira (1996), ''The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Islamic World edited by Francis Robinson'', Cambridge University Press, pp. 293–98. "The reintroduction of Sharia is a longstanding goal for Islamist movements in Muslim countries".</ref> and attempts to introduce or expand sharia have been accompanied by controversy,<ref>Hamann, Katie (29 December 2009). [http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/religion/Acehs-Sharia-Law-Still-Controversial-in-Indonesia-80257482.html "Aceh's Sharia Law Still Controversial in Indonesia"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100411072718/http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/religion/Acehs-Sharia-Law-Still-Controversial-in-Indonesia-80257482.html |date=11 April 2010 }}. [[Voice of America]]. Retrieved 19 September 2011. |
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* Iijima, Masako (13 January 2010). [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60D07420100114 "Islamic Police Tighten Grip on Indonesia's Aceh"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601090603/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60D07420100114 |date=1 June 2010 }}. [[Reuters]]. Retrieved 18 September 2011. |
* Iijima, Masako (13 January 2010). [https://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60D07420100114 "Islamic Police Tighten Grip on Indonesia's Aceh"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100601090603/http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60D07420100114 |date=1 June 2010 }}. [[Reuters]]. Retrieved 18 September 2011. |
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* [http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/08/aceh-sharia-police-loved-and-hated.html "Aceh Sharia Police Loved and Hated"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017002416/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/08/aceh-sharia-police-loved-and-hated.html |date=17 October 2017 }}. ''[[The Jakarta Post]].</ref> violence,<ref>Staff (3 January 2003). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2632939.stm "Analysis: Nigeria's Sharia Split"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712223709/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2632939.stm |date=12 July 2018 }}. [[BBC News]]. Retrieved 19 September 2011. "Thousands of people have been killed in fighting between Christians and Muslims following the introduction of sharia punishments in northern Nigerian states over the past three years". |
* [http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/08/aceh-sharia-police-loved-and-hated.html "Aceh Sharia Police Loved and Hated"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171017002416/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/08/aceh-sharia-police-loved-and-hated.html |date=17 October 2017 }}. ''[[The Jakarta Post]].</ref> violence,<ref>Staff (3 January 2003). [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2632939.stm "Analysis: Nigeria's Sharia Split"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180712223709/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/2632939.stm |date=12 July 2018 }}. [[BBC News]]. Retrieved 19 September 2011. "Thousands of people have been killed in fighting between Christians and Muslims following the introduction of sharia punishments in northern Nigerian states over the past three years". |
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* Ibrahimova, Roza (27 July 2009). [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009727182749635965.html "Dozens Killed in Violence in Northern Nigeria"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728100441/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009727182749635965.html |date=28 July 2009 }} (video (requires [[Adobe Flash]]; 00:01:49)). [[Al Jazeera English]]. Retrieved 19 September 2011. "The group Boko Haram, which wants to impose sharia (Islamic law) across the country, has attacked police stations and churches."</ref> and even warfare.<ref>[http://countrystudies.us/sudan/63.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623125406/http://countrystudies.us/sudan/63.htm |date=23 June 2011 }}. ''[[Library of Congress Country Studies|Library of Congress Country Studies: Sudan:]]''. "The factors that provoked the military coup, primarily the closely intertwined issues of Islamic law and of the civil war in the south, remained unresolved in 1991. The September 1983 implementation of the sharia throughout the country had been controversial and provoked widespread resistance in the predominantly non-Muslim south ... Opposition to the sharia, especially to the application of hudud (sing., hadd), or Islamic penalties, such as the public amputation of hands for theft, was not confined to the south and had been a principal factor leading to the popular uprising of April 1985 that overthrew the government of Jaafar an Nimeiri". |
* Ibrahimova, Roza (27 July 2009). [http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009727182749635965.html "Dozens Killed in Violence in Northern Nigeria"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090728100441/http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/07/2009727182749635965.html |date=28 July 2009 }} (video (requires [[Adobe Flash]]; 00:01:49)). [[Al Jazeera English]]. Retrieved 19 September 2011. "The group Boko Haram, which wants to impose sharia (Islamic law) across the country, has attacked police stations and churches."</ref> and even warfare.<ref>[http://countrystudies.us/sudan/63.htm] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110623125406/http://countrystudies.us/sudan/63.htm |date=23 June 2011 }}. ''[[Library of Congress Country Studies|Library of Congress Country Studies: Sudan:]]''. "The factors that provoked the military coup, primarily the closely intertwined issues of Islamic law and of the civil war in the south, remained unresolved in 1991. The September 1983 implementation of the sharia throughout the country had been controversial and provoked widespread resistance in the predominantly non-Muslim south ... Opposition to the sharia, especially to the application of hudud (sing., hadd), or Islamic penalties, such as the public amputation of hands for theft, was not confined to the south and had been a principal factor leading to the popular uprising of April 1985 that overthrew the government of Jaafar an Nimeiri". |
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* Marchal, R. (2013), Islamic political dynamics in the Somali civil war. Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform, pp. 331–52 |
* Marchal, R. (2013), Islamic political dynamics in the Somali civil war. Islam in Africa South of the Sahara: Essays in Gender Relations and Political Reform, pp. 331–52 |
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* {{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html |title=Civil war was sparked in 1983 when the military regime tried to impose sharia law as part of its overall policy to 'Islamicize' all of Sudan. |publisher=Frontline: Pbs.org |accessdate=4 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304223804/http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html |archive-date=4 March 2012 | |
* {{cite web |url=https://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html |title=Civil war was sparked in 1983 when the military regime tried to impose sharia law as part of its overall policy to 'Islamicize' all of Sudan. |publisher=Frontline: Pbs.org |accessdate=4 April 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304223804/http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/sudan/facts.html |archive-date=4 March 2012 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all }} |
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* [[Bassam Tibi|Tibi, Bassam]] (2008). ''Political Islam, World Politics and Europe''. [[Routledge]]. p. 33. "The shari'a was imposed on non-Muslim Sudanese peoples in September 1983, and since that time Muslims in the north have been fighting a jihad against the non-Muslims in the south."</ref> |
* [[Bassam Tibi|Tibi, Bassam]] (2008). ''Political Islam, World Politics and Europe''. [[Routledge]]. p. 33. "The shari'a was imposed on non-Muslim Sudanese peoples in September 1983, and since that time Muslims in the north have been fighting a jihad against the non-Muslims in the south."</ref> |
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==Types of legal systems== |
==Types of legal systems== |
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The legal systems of Muslim countries may be grouped as: mixed systems, classical sharia systems, and secular systems.<ref name="Otto2008">{{cite book|last=Otto|first=Jan Michiel|title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9XaP-ufhPQC&pg=PA8|accessdate=11 March 2013|date=30 August 2008|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-9087280482|pages=8–9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231201436/http://books.google.com/books?id=f9XaP-ufhPQC&pg=PA8|archive-date=31 December 2013| |
The legal systems of Muslim countries may be grouped as: mixed systems, classical sharia systems, and secular systems.<ref name="Otto2008">{{cite book|last=Otto|first=Jan Michiel|title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=f9XaP-ufhPQC&pg=PA8|accessdate=11 March 2013|date=30 August 2008|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-9087280482|pages=8–9|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131231201436/http://books.google.com/books?id=f9XaP-ufhPQC&pg=PA8|archive-date=31 December 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Classical sharia systems=== |
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===Mixed systems=== |
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Most Muslim countries have mixed legal systems that postulate a constitution and [[Rule of Law]], while also allowing rules of [[Fiqh|traditional Islamic jurisprudence]] to influence certain areas of national law. These systems possess large bodies of codified laws, which may be based on European or Indian codes. In these systems, the central legislative role is played by politicians and modern jurists rather than traditional religious scholars. Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia, and Nigeria are examples of states having mixed systems.<ref name="Otto2008"/> Some countries with Muslim minorities, such as Israel, also have mixed systems that administer Islamic law for their Muslim population.<ref>{{cite web|website=Israel Ministry of Justice|title=The Sharia Courts|url=https://www.justice.gov.il/En/Units/ShariaCourts/Pages/default.aspx|access-date=Mar 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325005530/https://www.justice.gov.il/En/Units/ShariaCourts/Pages/default.aspx|archive-date=25 March 2019| |
Most Muslim countries have mixed legal systems that postulate a constitution and [[Rule of Law]], while also allowing rules of [[Fiqh|traditional Islamic jurisprudence]] to influence certain areas of national law. These systems possess large bodies of codified laws, which may be based on European or Indian codes. In these systems, the central legislative role is played by politicians and modern jurists rather than traditional religious scholars. Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia, and Nigeria are examples of states having mixed systems.<ref name="Otto2008"/> Some countries with Muslim minorities, such as Israel, also have mixed systems that administer Islamic law for their Muslim population.<ref name="The Sharia Courts">{{cite web|website=Israel Ministry of Justice|title=The Sharia Courts|url=https://www.justice.gov.il/En/Units/ShariaCourts/Pages/default.aspx|access-date=Mar 19, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190325005530/https://www.justice.gov.il/En/Units/ShariaCourts/Pages/default.aspx|archive-date=25 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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== Domains of application == |
== Domains of application == |
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Most Muslim-majority countries incorporate sharia at some level in their legal framework. Their constitutions commonly refer to sharia as a source or the main source of law, though these references are not in themselves indicative of how much the legal system is influenced by sharia, and whether the influence has a traditionalist or modernist character.<ref name=vikor/><ref name=calder/> The same constitutions usually also refer to universal principles such as democracy and human rights, leaving it up to legislators and the judiciary to work out how these norms are to be reconciled in practice.<ref name=otto-18-20>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf | |
Most Muslim-majority countries incorporate sharia at some level in their legal framework. Their constitutions commonly refer to sharia as a source or the main source of law, though these references are not in themselves indicative of how much the legal system is influenced by sharia, and whether the influence has a traditionalist or modernist character.<ref name=vikor/><ref name=calder/> The same constitutions usually also refer to universal principles such as democracy and human rights, leaving it up to legislators and the judiciary to work out how these norms are to be reconciled in practice.<ref name=otto-18-20>{{cite book |ref=harv |first1=Jan Michiel |last1=Otto |year=2008 |title=Sharia and National Law in Muslim Countries: Tensions and Opportunities for Dutch and EU Foreign Policy |publisher=Amsterdam University Press |isbn=978-9087280482 |url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |pages=18–20 |access-date=22 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009235043/https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/20694/Sharia%20and%20national%20Law%20in%20Muslim%20countries.pdf |archive-date=9 October 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Conversely, some countries (e.g., Algeria), whose constitution does not mention sharia, possess sharia-based family laws.<ref name=calder/> Nisrine Abiad identifies Bahrain, Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia as states with "strong constitutional consequences" of sharia "on the organization and functioning of power".<ref>{{cite book|first=Nisrine|last=Abiad|title=Sharia, Muslim States and International Human Rights Treaty Obligations: A Comparative Study|publisher=British Institute of International and Comparative Law|year=2008|pages=38–42}}</ref> |
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Countries in the Muslim world generally have criminal codes influenced by French law or common law, and in some cases a combination of Western legal traditions. Saudi Arabia has never adopted a criminal code and Saudi judges still follow traditional Hanbali jurisprudence. In the course of Islamization campaigns, several countries (Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, Mauritania, and Yemen) inserted Islamic criminal laws into their penal codes, which were otherwise based on Western models. In some countries only ''hudud'' penalties were added, while others also enacted provisions for ''[[qisas]]'' (law of retaliation) and ''[[Diya (Islam)|diya]]'' (monetary compensation). Iran subsequently issued a new "Islamic Penal Code". The criminal codes of Afghanistan and United Arab Emirates contain a general provision that certain crimes are to be punished according to Islamic law, without specifying the penalties. Some Nigerian states have also enacted Islamic criminal laws. [[Islamic criminal law in Aceh|Laws in the Indonesian province of Aceh]] provide for application of discretionary (''[[ta'zir]]'') punishments for violation of Islamic norms, but explicitly exclude ''hudud'' and ''qisas''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Silvia|last=Tellenbach|year=2015|title=Islamic Criminal Law|encyclopedia=The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law|editor1=Markus D. Dubber|editor2= Tatjana Hornle|publisher= Oxford University Press|pages=249–250}} {{ISBN|978-0199673599}} |
Countries in the Muslim world generally have criminal codes influenced by French law or common law, and in some cases a combination of Western legal traditions. Saudi Arabia has never adopted a criminal code and Saudi judges still follow traditional Hanbali jurisprudence. In the course of Islamization campaigns, several countries (Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, Mauritania, and Yemen) inserted Islamic criminal laws into their penal codes, which were otherwise based on Western models. In some countries only ''hudud'' penalties were added, while others also enacted provisions for ''[[qisas]]'' (law of retaliation) and ''[[Diya (Islam)|diya]]'' (monetary compensation). Iran subsequently issued a new "Islamic Penal Code". The criminal codes of Afghanistan and United Arab Emirates contain a general provision that certain crimes are to be punished according to Islamic law, without specifying the penalties. Some Nigerian states have also enacted Islamic criminal laws. [[Islamic criminal law in Aceh|Laws in the Indonesian province of Aceh]] provide for application of discretionary (''[[ta'zir]]'') punishments for violation of Islamic norms, but explicitly exclude ''hudud'' and ''qisas''.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|first=Silvia|last=Tellenbach|year=2015|title=Islamic Criminal Law|encyclopedia=The Oxford Handbook of Criminal Law|editor1=Markus D. Dubber|editor2= Tatjana Hornle|publisher= Oxford University Press|pages=249–250}} {{ISBN|978-0199673599}}</ref> [[Brunei]] has been implementing a "Sharia Penal Code", which includes provisions for stoning and amputation, in stages since 2014.<ref>{{cite news|newspaper=New York Times|author=Austin Ramzy|title=Brunei to Punish Adultery and Gay Sex With Death by Stoning|date=March 28, 2019|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/28/world/asia/brunei-adultery-gay-stoning.html}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Brunei Shariah law applies death sentence for homosexuality|newspaper=Deutsche Welle|date=March 27, 2019|url=https://www.dw.com/en/brunei-shariah-law-applies-death-sentence-for-homosexuality/a-48076114|access-date=13 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190331093514/https://www.dw.com/en/brunei-shariah-law-applies-death-sentence-for-homosexuality/a-48076114|archive-date=31 March 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> The countries where ''hudud'' penalties are legal do not use stoning and amputation routinely, and generally apply other punishments instead.<ref name=vikor/><ref name=otto-18-20/><ref>{{cite web|first=Jonathan A. C.|last=Brown|title=Stoning and Hand Cutting—Understanding the Hudud and the Shariah in Islam|year=2017|access-date=Mar 24, 2019|website=Yaqeen Institute|url=https://yaqeeninstitute.org/jonathan-brown/stoning-and-hand-cutting-understanding-the-hudud-and-the-shariah-in-islam/|ref=harv|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190406221119/https://yaqeeninstitute.org/jonathan-brown/stoning-and-hand-cutting-understanding-the-hudud-and-the-shariah-in-islam/|archive-date=6 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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==Africa== |
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===Algeria=== |
===Algeria=== |
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Article 222 of the Family Code of 1984 specifies sharia as the residuary source of laws.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/Algeria.htm |title=Algeria |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212041041/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/Algeria.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 | |
Article 222 of the Family Code of 1984 specifies sharia as the residuary source of laws.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/Algeria.htm |title=Algeria |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212041041/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/Algeria.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> According to the U.S. State Department, the sharia-derived family code treats women as minors under the legal guardianship of a husband or male relative, though in practice the implied restrictions are not uniformly enforced.<ref>{{cite web|title=Algeria – Constitution and Laws|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/171731.pdf|publisher=U.S. State Department (2011)|accessdate=3 October 2014|df=}}</ref> |
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===Benin=== |
===Benin=== |
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It has a civil law system with influences from customary law.<ref name=wf-legal>{{cite web|title=Legal Systems|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2100.html|publisher=The World Factbook|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518174611/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2100.html|archive-date=2014-05-18| |
It has a civil law system with influences from customary law.<ref name=wf-legal>{{cite web|title=Legal Systems|url=https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2100.html|publisher=The World Factbook|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140518174611/https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/fields/2100.html|archive-date=2014-05-18|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Burkina Faso=== |
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After gaining independence from France, Chad retained the French legal system.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ngarhodjim|first1=Nadjita F.|title=An Introduction to the Legal System and Legal Research in Chad|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Chad1.htm|website=[[GlobaLex]]|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606135533/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Chad1.htm|archive-date=2017-06-06| |
After gaining independence from France, Chad retained the French legal system.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Ngarhodjim|first1=Nadjita F.|title=An Introduction to the Legal System and Legal Research in Chad|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Chad1.htm|website=[[GlobaLex]]|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170606135533/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Chad1.htm|archive-date=2017-06-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Comoros=== |
===Comoros=== |
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The legal system is based on both Sharia and remnants of the French legal code.<ref>{{cite web|title=Freedom in the World – Comoros (2002)|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,FREEHOU,,COM,,473c53b923,0.html|publisher=UNHCR Refworld}}</ref> According to the article 229-7 of the Penal Code, any Muslim who makes use of products forbidden by Islamic law can be punished by imprisonment of up to six months.<ref>{{cite web|title=Loi N°81-006, modifiée par les lois 87-004 et 95-012 portant Code pénal|url=http://www.ministerejustice.gouv.km/v1/IMG/pdf/RECEUIL_DES_TEXTES_LEGISLATIFS.pdf|publisher=Ministère de la Justice|accessdate=24 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530070502/http://www.ministerejustice.gouv.km/v1/IMG/pdf/RECEUIL_DES_TEXTES_LEGISLATIFS.pdf|archive-date=2013-05-30| |
The legal system is based on both Sharia and remnants of the French legal code.<ref>{{cite web|title=Freedom in the World – Comoros (2002)|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/country,,FREEHOU,,COM,,473c53b923,0.html|publisher=UNHCR Refworld}}</ref> According to the article 229-7 of the Penal Code, any Muslim who makes use of products forbidden by Islamic law can be punished by imprisonment of up to six months.<ref>{{cite web|title=Loi N°81-006, modifiée par les lois 87-004 et 95-012 portant Code pénal|url=http://www.ministerejustice.gouv.km/v1/IMG/pdf/RECEUIL_DES_TEXTES_LEGISLATIFS.pdf|publisher=Ministère de la Justice|accessdate=24 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530070502/http://www.ministerejustice.gouv.km/v1/IMG/pdf/RECEUIL_DES_TEXTES_LEGISLATIFS.pdf|archive-date=2013-05-30|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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===Cote d'Ivoire=== |
===Cote d'Ivoire=== |
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===Djibouti=== |
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The Family Code is mainly derived from Islamic law and regulates personal status matters such as marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance.<ref>{{cite web|title=Djibouti Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Djibouti-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620105303/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Djibouti-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20| |
The Family Code is mainly derived from Islamic law and regulates personal status matters such as marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance.<ref>{{cite web|title=Djibouti Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Djibouti-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620105303/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Djibouti-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Sharia does not apply to criminal law.<ref>{{cite web|title=24ème session|url=http://www.ohchr.org/fr/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=3146&LangID=F|publisher=Haut-Commissariat aux droits de l'homme|accessdate=9 July 2014|quote=La Charia n'est pas compétente dans le domaine pénal, a précisé la délégation.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714161716/http://www.ohchr.org/fr/NewsEvents/Pages/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=3146&LangID=F|archive-date=2014-07-14|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Egypt=== |
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Article 2 of Egypt's 2014 Constitution declares the principles of Islamic sharia to be the main source of legislation.<ref>{{cite web|author=Adly Mansour|title=Egypt's Constitution|url=http://www.sis.gov.eg/Newvr/Dustor-en001.pdf|publisher=Government of Egypt|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718052913/http://www.sis.gov.eg/Newvr/Dustor-en001.pdf|archive-date=2015-07-18| |
Article 2 of Egypt's 2014 Constitution declares the principles of Islamic sharia to be the main source of legislation.<ref>{{cite web|author=Adly Mansour|title=Egypt's Constitution|url=http://www.sis.gov.eg/Newvr/Dustor-en001.pdf|publisher=Government of Egypt|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150718052913/http://www.sis.gov.eg/Newvr/Dustor-en001.pdf|archive-date=2015-07-18|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Egypt's law and enforcement system are in flux since its 2011 Revolution;<ref>{{cite web|last1=Abdel Wahab|first1=Mohamed S. E.|title=An Overview of the Egyptian Legal System and Legal Research|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Egypt1.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123153543/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/Globalex/Egypt1.htm|archive-date=2017-11-23|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> however, the declaration of Sharia's primacy in Article 2 is a potential ground for unconstitutionality of any secular laws in Egyptian legal code.<ref>{{cite web|title=Egypt – The Judiciary, Civil Rights and the Rule of Law|url=http://countrystudies.us/egypt/115.htm|publisher=Library of Congress, USA|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304223532/http://countrystudies.us/egypt/115.htm|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Sharia courts and qadis are run and licensed by the [[Ministry of Justice (Egypt)|Ministry of Justice]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7235357.stm |title=Incorporating Sharia into legal systems |publisher=BBC News |date=8 February 2008 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425031043/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7235357.stm |archive-date=2013-04-25 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> The personal status law that regulates matters such as marriage, divorce and child custody is governed by sharia. In a family court, a woman’s testimony is worth half of a man’s testimony.<ref>{{cite web|title=Egypt Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Egypt-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181019172446/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Egypt-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2018-10-19|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Eritrea=== |
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Sharia courts entertain cases dealing with marriage, inheritance and family of Muslims.<ref>{{cite web|title=Introduction To Eritrean Legal System And Research|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Eritrea.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318023906/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Eritrea.htm|archive-date=2013-03-18| |
Sharia courts entertain cases dealing with marriage, inheritance and family of Muslims.<ref>{{cite web|title=Introduction To Eritrean Legal System And Research|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Eritrea.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130318023906/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Eritrea.htm|archive-date=2013-03-18|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Ethiopia=== |
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Sharia courts have jurisdiction on cases regarding marriage, divorce, maintenance, guardianship of minors (only if both parties are Muslims). Also included are cases concerning waqfs, gifts, succession, or wills, provided that donor is a Muslim or deceased was a Muslim at time of death.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/Ethiopia.htm |title=Ethiopia |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212024626/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/Ethiopia.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 | |
Sharia courts have jurisdiction on cases regarding marriage, divorce, maintenance, guardianship of minors (only if both parties are Muslims). Also included are cases concerning waqfs, gifts, succession, or wills, provided that donor is a Muslim or deceased was a Muslim at time of death.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/Ethiopia.htm |title=Ethiopia |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212024626/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/Ethiopia.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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Article 7 of the [[Constitution of the Gambia|constitution]] identifies sharia as source of law in matters of personal status and inheritance among members of communities to which it applies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/gambia.htm |title=Gambia |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212052612/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/gambia.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 | |
Article 7 of the [[Constitution of the Gambia|constitution]] identifies sharia as source of law in matters of personal status and inheritance among members of communities to which it applies.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/gambia.htm |title=Gambia |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212052612/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/gambia.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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===Ghana=== |
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Ghana is a secular state. Any other laws inconsistent with the national constitution are deemed null and void. No religious laws are applied in civil or criminal cases .<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/ghana.htm |title=Ghana |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212041102/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/ghana.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 | |
Ghana is a secular state. Any other laws inconsistent with the national constitution are deemed null and void. No religious laws are applied in civil or criminal cases .<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/ghana.htm |title=Ghana |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212041102/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/ghana.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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===Guinea-Bissau=== |
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Islamic law is applied by [[Kadhi courts|Kadhis' Courts]] where "all the parties profess the Muslim religion".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/kenya.htm |title=Kenya |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116220016/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/kenya.htm |archive-date=2013-01-16 | |
Islamic law is applied by [[Kadhi courts|Kadhis' Courts]] where "all the parties profess the Muslim religion".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/kenya.htm |title=Kenya |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116220016/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/kenya.htm |archive-date=2013-01-16 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> Under article 170, section 5 of the [[Constitution of Kenya|constitution]], the jurisdiction of Kadhis’ court is limited to matters relating to "personal status, marriage, divorce or inheritance in proceedings in which all the parties profess the Muslim religion and submit to the jurisdiction of the Kadhi’s courts".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Constitution of Kenya|url=http://www.kenyaembassy.com/pdfs/The%20Constitution%20of%20Kenya.pdf|publisher=Embassy of the Republic of Kenya, Washington DC|accessdate=24 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121223095029/http://kenyaembassy.com/pdfs/The%20Constitution%20of%20Kenya.pdf|archive-date=2012-12-23|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Libya=== |
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Qaddafi merged civil and sharia courts in 1973. Civil courts now employ sharia judges who sit in regular courts of appeal and specialise in sharia appellate cases.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/libya.htm |title=Libya |publisher=Law.emory.edu |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212203803/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/libya.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 | |
Qaddafi merged civil and sharia courts in 1973. Civil courts now employ sharia judges who sit in regular courts of appeal and specialise in sharia appellate cases.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/libya.htm |title=Libya |publisher=Law.emory.edu |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212203803/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/libya.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> The personal status laws are derived from Islamic law.<ref>{{cite web|title=Libya Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Libya-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130502222708/http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Libya-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2013-05-02|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Mali=== |
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It has a civil law system influenced by customary law.<ref name=wf-legal/> In urban areas, positive law is common. In rural areas the customary law usually dominates. Local rural versions of sharia are the predominant sources for customary law.<ref>{{cite web|author=Servaas Feiertag|year=2008|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mali1.htm|title=Guide to Legal Research in Mali|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014333/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mali1.htm|archive-date=2016-03-05| |
It has a civil law system influenced by customary law.<ref name=wf-legal/> In urban areas, positive law is common. In rural areas the customary law usually dominates. Local rural versions of sharia are the predominant sources for customary law.<ref>{{cite web|author=Servaas Feiertag|year=2008|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mali1.htm|title=Guide to Legal Research in Mali|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305014333/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mali1.htm|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Article 25 in Title II of Mali's constitution declares it to be a secular state.<ref>Jeffrey Craver (Translator), [http://confinder.richmond.edu/admin/docs/Mali.pdf The Constitution of the Republic of Mali] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120912141413/http://confinder.richmond.edu/admin/docs/Mali.pdf |date=2012-09-12 }} University of Richmond School of Law</ref> |
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===Mauritania=== |
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The Penal Code contains Sharia crimes such as heresy, apostasy, atheism, refusal to pray, adultery and alcohol consumption. Punishments include lapidation, amputation and flagellation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Researching the Legal System and Laws of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/mauritania.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531131932/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/mauritania.htm|archive-date=31 May 2013| |
The Penal Code contains Sharia crimes such as heresy, apostasy, atheism, refusal to pray, adultery and alcohol consumption. Punishments include lapidation, amputation and flagellation.<ref>{{cite web|title=Researching the Legal System and Laws of the Islamic Republic of Mauritania|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/mauritania.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531131932/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/mauritania.htm|archive-date=31 May 2013|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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===Mauritius=== |
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Muslim Personal Laws apply to Muslims. Polygamy is legal but the government will not officially recognize a polygamous marriage.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/4016478 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140709143038/http://www.academia.edu/4016478/ISLAM_IN_MAURITIUS |archive-date=2014-07-09 | |
Muslim Personal Laws apply to Muslims. Polygamy is legal but the government will not officially recognize a polygamous marriage.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/4016478 |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20140709143038/http://www.academia.edu/4016478/ISLAM_IN_MAURITIUS |archive-date=2014-07-09 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://genderindex.org/country/mauritius|title=Gender Equality in Mauritius – Social Institutions and Gender Index (SIGI)|work=genderindex.org|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150624013257/http://genderindex.org/country/mauritius|archive-date=2015-06-24|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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===Morocco=== |
===Morocco=== |
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In 1956, a Code of Personal Status ([[Mudawana]]) was issued, based on dominant [[Maliki]] school of Sharia jurisprudence. Regional Sharia courts also hear personal status cases on appeal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/morocco.htm |title=Morocco |publisher=Law.emory.edu |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201012921/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/morocco.htm |archive-date=2008-12-01 | |
In 1956, a Code of Personal Status ([[Mudawana]]) was issued, based on dominant [[Maliki]] school of Sharia jurisprudence. Regional Sharia courts also hear personal status cases on appeal.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/morocco.htm |title=Morocco |publisher=Law.emory.edu |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081201012921/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/morocco.htm |archive-date=2008-12-01 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> In matters of family law, a woman’s testimony is worth only half of that of a man.<ref>{{cite web|title=Morocco Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Morocco-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF}}</ref> With 2003 reforms of its criminal law, Article 222 of its new criminal code is derived from Islamic law; Articles 220–221, 268–272 of its criminal law similarly codify those activities as crimes that are prohibited under Sharia.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Buskens|first1=Leon|editor1-last=Otto|editor1-first=Jan|title=Sharia Incorporated|publisher=Leiden University Press|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=122–24|year=2010}}</ref> Morocco adopted a new constitution in 2011; Article 41 of this constitution granted sole power to the Superior Council of the Ulemas to guide its laws through [[Fatwa]]s from principles, precepts and designs of Islam.<ref>{{cite web|title=Constitution of Morocco 2011|url=http://www.maroc.ma/en/content/constitution|publisher=Government of Morocco, Article 41|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181110200240/http://www.maroc.ma/en/content/constitution|archive-date=2018-11-10|url-status=live|df=|date=11 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Morocco Laws Criminalizing Apostasy|url=https://www.loc.gov/law/help/apostasy/index.php#morocco|publisher=Library of Congress, U.S. Government (2013)|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180104183829/http://www.loc.gov/law/help/apostasy/index.php#morocco|archive-date=2018-01-04|url-status=live|df=|date=June 2014}}</ref> |
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===Mozambique=== |
===Mozambique=== |
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Paula Rainha states that, "Mozambique’s legal system can be considered civil law based (at least the formal legal system) and legislation is the primary source of law."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rainha|first1=Paula|title=Republic of Mozambique – Legal System and Research|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mozambique.htm#_2._Legal_Sources|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501104023/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mozambique.htm#_2._Legal_Sources|archive-date=2018-05-01| |
Paula Rainha states that, "Mozambique’s legal system can be considered civil law based (at least the formal legal system) and legislation is the primary source of law."<ref>{{cite web|last1=Rainha|first1=Paula|title=Republic of Mozambique – Legal System and Research|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mozambique.htm#_2._Legal_Sources|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180501104023/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Mozambique.htm#_2._Legal_Sources|archive-date=2018-05-01|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Niger=== |
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It has not adopted any elements of Islamic law.<ref>{{cite book|author=Graeme R. Newman|title=Crime and Punishment around the World: [Four Volumes]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uK6bR9byVIC&pg=PA157|accessdate=19 February 2013|date=30 October 2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0313351341|page=157|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425065438/https://books.google.com/books?id=2uK6bR9byVIC&pg=PA157|archive-date=25 April 2016| |
It has not adopted any elements of Islamic law.<ref>{{cite book|author=Graeme R. Newman|title=Crime and Punishment around the World: [Four Volumes]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uK6bR9byVIC&pg=PA157|accessdate=19 February 2013|date=30 October 2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0313351341|page=157|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425065438/https://books.google.com/books?id=2uK6bR9byVIC&pg=PA157|archive-date=25 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Nigeria=== |
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Sharia states: Until 1999, Islamic law applied primarily to civil matters, but twelve of Nigeria’s thirty-six [[States of Nigeria|states]] have since extended Sharia to criminal matters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/dialogue/2_10/articles/1053.html |title=Working within Nigeria's Sharia Courts |publisher=Carnegiecouncil.org |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321002213/http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/dialogue/2_10/articles/1053.html |archive-date=2013-03-21 | |
Sharia states: Until 1999, Islamic law applied primarily to civil matters, but twelve of Nigeria’s thirty-six [[States of Nigeria|states]] have since extended Sharia to criminal matters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/dialogue/2_10/articles/1053.html |title=Working within Nigeria's Sharia Courts |publisher=Carnegiecouncil.org |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130321002213/http://www.carnegiecouncil.org/publications/archive/dialogue/2_10/articles/1053.html |archive-date=2013-03-21 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> Sharia courts can order amputations, and a few have been carried out.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14858441 |title=Nigeria's Zamfara Sharia court orders amputation |publisher=BBC News |date=9 September 2011 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120125023105/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14858441 |archive-date=2012-01-25 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> The twelve sharia states are [[Zamfara State|Zamfara]], [[Bauchi State|Bauchi]], [[Borno State|Borno]], [[Gombe State|Gombe]], [[Jigawa State|Jigawa]], [[Kaduna State|Kaduna]], [[Kano State|Kano]], [[Katsina State|Katsina]], [[Kebbi State|Kebbi]], [[Niger State|Niger]], [[Sokoto State|Sokoto]] and [[Yobe State|Yobe]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present |url=http://www.lup.nl/do.php?a=process_visitor_download&editorial_id=1562 |publisher=Leiden University Press |page=575 (25) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020031048/http://www.lup.nl/do.php?a=process_visitor_download&editorial_id=1562 |archive-date=20 October 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> |
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Borno, Gombe and Yobe have not yet begun to apply their Sharia Penal Codes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present |url=http://www.lup.nl/do.php?a=process_visitor_download&editorial_id=1562 |publisher=Leiden University Press |page=603 (53) | |
Borno, Gombe and Yobe have not yet begun to apply their Sharia Penal Codes.<ref>{{cite web|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present |url=http://www.lup.nl/do.php?a=process_visitor_download&editorial_id=1562 |publisher=Leiden University Press |page=603 (53) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020031048/http://www.lup.nl/do.php?a=process_visitor_download&editorial_id=1562 |archive-date=20 October 2014 |df=dmy }}</ref> |
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The rest of Nigeria has a mixed legal system of English common law and traditional law.<ref name=wf-legal/> |
The rest of Nigeria has a mixed legal system of English common law and traditional law.<ref name=wf-legal/> |
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===Senegal=== |
===Senegal=== |
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The legal system of Senegal is based on French civil law.<ref name=senegalbrief>{{cite web|title=Customary and Islamic law in Senegal|url=http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20041217123824607|publisher=Legal Briefs (2004)|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006131459/http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20041217123824607|archive-date=2014-10-06| |
The legal system of Senegal is based on French civil law.<ref name=senegalbrief>{{cite web|title=Customary and Islamic law in Senegal|url=http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20041217123824607|publisher=Legal Briefs (2004)|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006131459/http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20041217123824607|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> The 1972 Family Code (''Code de la famille'')<ref>{{cite web|title=Code de la famille Sénégalais|url=http://www.jafbase.fr/docAfrique/Senegal/SenegalFam1.pdf|publisher=JaFBase|accessdate=3 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006080535/http://www.jafbase.fr/docAfrique/Senegal/SenegalFam1.pdf|archive-date=6 October 2014|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> is secular in nature.<ref name=ISITA>{{cite web|last1=Dièye|first1=Abdoulaye|title=Secularism in Senegal: Withstanding the Challenge of Local Realities|url=http://www.bcics.northwestern.edu/documents/workingpapers/ISITA_09-006_Dieye.pdf|publisher=Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa|accessdate=3 October 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605010921/http://www.bcics.northwestern.edu/documents/workingpapers/ISITA_09-006_Dieye.pdf|archive-date=2010-06-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Islamic law is allowed by article 571 of the Family Code only in the case of [[intestate]] successions, and only if the person had demonstrated in life a wish that his succession would be regulated by Islamic law.<ref name=ISITA/> Most succession cases are decided under this provision.<ref name="Hallward-DriemeierHasan2012">{{cite book|author1=Mary Hallward-Driemeier|author2=Tazeen Hasan|title=Empowering Women: Legal Rights and Economic Opportunities in Africa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mv_isUM_vNgC&pg=PA55|date=4 October 2012|publisher=World Bank Publications|isbn=978-0821395349|page=55|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160424132229/https://books.google.com/books?id=mv_isUM_vNgC&pg=PA55|archive-date=24 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> There has been growing political attempts to introduce more sharia regulations.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Dièye|first1=Abdoulaye|title=Secularism in Senegal: Withstanding the Challenge of Local Realities|url=http://www.bcics.northwestern.edu/documents/workingpapers/ISITA_09-006_Dieye.pdf|publisher=Institute for the Study of Islamic Thought in Africa|accessdate=3 October 2014|page=10|date=2009|quote=More recently a personal status code in accordance with the Sharia for Senegalese Muslims instead of the present Family Code was adopted and propagated by the Islamic Committee for the Reform of the Family Code in Senegal.|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100605010921/http://www.bcics.northwestern.edu/documents/workingpapers/ISITA_09-006_Dieye.pdf|archive-date=2010-06-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Sierra Leone=== |
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Sharia was adopted in 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/10/idUSLA575453 |title=Somali cabinet votes to implement sharia law |publisher=Reuters |date=2009-03-10 |accessdate=2013-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023065759/http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/10/idUSLA575453 |archive-date=2012-10-23 | |
Sharia was adopted in 2009.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/10/idUSLA575453 |title=Somali cabinet votes to implement sharia law |publisher=Reuters |date=2009-03-10 |accessdate=2013-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023065759/http://www.reuters.com/article/2009/03/10/idUSLA575453 |archive-date=2012-10-23 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> Article 2 of Somali 2012 Constitution states no law can be enacted that is not compliant with the general principles and objectives of Sharia.<ref>{{cite web|title=UN officials welcome 'historic' approval of new constitution for Somalia|url=https://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42603#.VBxVFSiRvP0|publisher=United Nations News Center (2012)|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170704172956/http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=42603#.VBxVFSiRvP0|archive-date=2017-07-04|url-status=live|df=|date = August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Federal Republic of Somalia – Provisional Constitution |url=http://unpos.unmissions.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=RkJTOSpoMME= |publisher=United Nations (2012) |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402122013/http://unpos.unmissions.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=RkJTOSpoMME%3D |archive-date=2 April 2015 }}</ref> Sharia currently influences all aspects of ''[[Xeer]]'' as well as Somalia's formal legal system.<ref>{{cite book|author1=Abdul Wahid Sh. Qalinle|editor1-last=Johansson Dahre|editor1-first=Ulf|title=Promoting Rule of Law in an Era of 'Re-Islamization" in Somalia, Part IV in Predicaments in the Horn of Africa|publisher=Lund University Press|pages=331–42|url=http://www.sirclund.se/Dokument/10YearSIRCConf2012.pdf#page=331|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170615011416/http://www.sirclund.se/Dokument/10YearSIRCConf2012.pdf#page=331|archive-date=2017-06-15|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Sudan=== |
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Sharia has been declared the chief source of all legislation in Sudan's 1968, 1973 and 1998 Constitutions.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Clark Lombardi|title=Sharia – A or The Chief Source of Legislation|journal=International Law Review|date=2013|volume=28|issue=3|pages=751–53|url=http://www.auilr.org/pdf/28/28.3.3.pdf|publisher=American University|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915030843/http://www.auilr.org/pdf/28/28.3.3.pdf|archive-date=2014-09-15| |
Sharia has been declared the chief source of all legislation in Sudan's 1968, 1973 and 1998 Constitutions.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Clark Lombardi|title=Sharia – A or The Chief Source of Legislation|journal=International Law Review|date=2013|volume=28|issue=3|pages=751–53|url=http://www.auilr.org/pdf/28/28.3.3.pdf|publisher=American University|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915030843/http://www.auilr.org/pdf/28/28.3.3.pdf|archive-date=2014-09-15|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> In 2005, Sudan adopted an interim national constitution; it removed some references to Sharia, but included Sharia-derived criminal, civil and personal legal codes, as well as Sharia-mandated [[hudud]] punishments.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Koendgen|first1=Olaf|editor1-last=Otto|editor1-first=Jan|title=Sharia Incorporated|publisher=Leiden University Press|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=181–230|year=2010}}</ref> The Criminal Act of 1991 prescribes punishments which include forty lashes for drinking alcohol, amputation of the right hand for theft of a certain value and stoning for adultery.<ref name="Otto2010">{{cite book|author=Jan Michiel Otto|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8ep7cX3ma0sC&pg=PA211|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=30 June 2010|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=211–212|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160515175729/https://books.google.com/books?id=8ep7cX3ma0sC&pg=PA211|archive-date=15 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=The Criminal Act 1991|url=http://www.pclrs.org/downloads/bills/Criminal%20Law/Criminal%20Act%201991%20English.pdf|publisher=PCLRS|accessdate=21 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130526165737/http://www.pclrs.org/downloads/bills/Criminal%20Law/Criminal%20Act%201991%20English.pdf|archive-date=2013-05-26|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> However, there is no record of either any amputation or stoning ever having taken place in Sudan.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://mic.com/articles/68431/women-around-the-world-are-being-stoned-to-death-do-you-know-the-facts#.B062VQHfy |title=Women Around the World Are Being Stoned to Death. Do You Know the Facts? |access-date=20 May 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727051443/https://mic.com/articles/68431/women-around-the-world-are-being-stoned-to-death-do-you-know-the-facts#.B062VQHfy |archive-date=27 July 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> |
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===Tanzania=== |
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Islamic law is applicable to Muslims under the Judicature and Applications of Laws Act, empowering courts to apply Islamic law to matters of succession in communities that generally follow Islamic law in matters of personal status and inheritance. Unlike mainland Tanzania, [[Zanzibar]] retains Islamic courts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guide to Tanzanian Legal System and Legal Research|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/tanzania.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202053957/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Tanzania.htm|archive-date=2 February 2013| |
Islamic law is applicable to Muslims under the Judicature and Applications of Laws Act, empowering courts to apply Islamic law to matters of succession in communities that generally follow Islamic law in matters of personal status and inheritance. Unlike mainland Tanzania, [[Zanzibar]] retains Islamic courts.<ref>{{cite web|title=Guide to Tanzanian Legal System and Legal Research|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/tanzania.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202053957/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Tanzania.htm|archive-date=2 February 2013|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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Tunisia has a long secular tradition with a legal system based on French civil law. The [[Code of Personal Status (Tunisia)|Law of Personal Status]], considered a reference in secular family law across the Arab world, bans polygamy and extrajudicial divorce. Sharia courts were abolished in 1956.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/tunisia.htm |title=Tunisia |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211234427/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/tunisia.htm |archive-date=2013-02-11 | |
Tunisia has a long secular tradition with a legal system based on French civil law. The [[Code of Personal Status (Tunisia)|Law of Personal Status]], considered a reference in secular family law across the Arab world, bans polygamy and extrajudicial divorce. Sharia courts were abolished in 1956.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/tunisia.htm |title=Tunisia |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211234427/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/tunisia.htm |archive-date=2013-02-11 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.llrx.com/features/tunisia.htm |title=Features – A Guide to the Tunisian Legal System |publisher=LLRX.com |date=15 September 2002 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130303081950/http://www.llrx.com/features/tunisia.htm |archive-date=2013-03-03 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> Secular inheritance laws are indirectly based on Islamic jurisprudence, with religion never being mentioned in the Code of Personal Status; these laws accord to women half the share of property due to men.<ref>{{cite web|title=Will Tunisian Women Finally Inherit What They Deserve?|url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/07/will-tunisian-women-finally-inherit-what-they-deserve/|publisher=Foreign Policy|accessdate=10 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150110045008/http://foreignpolicy.com/2014/02/07/will-tunisian-women-finally-inherit-what-they-deserve/|archive-date=2015-01-10|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Uganda=== |
===Uganda=== |
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Article 129 (1) (d) of the [[Constitution of Uganda|constitution]] allows the parliament to establish by law "Qadhi’s courts for marriage, divorce, inheritance of property and guardianship".<ref>{{cite web|title=Constitution of Uganda|url=http://www.ec.or.ug/docs/Constitution.pdf|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208232514/http://www.ec.or.ug/docs/Constitution.pdf|archive-date=2013-02-08| |
Article 129 (1) (d) of the [[Constitution of Uganda|constitution]] allows the parliament to establish by law "Qadhi’s courts for marriage, divorce, inheritance of property and guardianship".<ref>{{cite web|title=Constitution of Uganda|url=http://www.ec.or.ug/docs/Constitution.pdf|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130208232514/http://www.ec.or.ug/docs/Constitution.pdf|archive-date=2013-02-08|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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==Americas== |
==Americas== |
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===Canada=== |
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Sharia law is explicitly banned in [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], upheld by a unanimous vote against it in 2005 by the [[National Assembly of Quebec]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Quebec gives thumbs down to Shariah law|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-gives-thumbs-down-to-shariah-law-1.535601|accessdate=10 October 2017|work=CBC News|date=26 May 2005|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009234834/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-gives-thumbs-down-to-shariah-law-1.535601|archive-date=2017-10-09| |
Sharia law is explicitly banned in [[Quebec]], [[Canada]], upheld by a unanimous vote against it in 2005 by the [[National Assembly of Quebec]],<ref>{{cite news|title=Quebec gives thumbs down to Shariah law|url=http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-gives-thumbs-down-to-shariah-law-1.535601|accessdate=10 October 2017|work=CBC News|date=26 May 2005|language=en|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009234834/http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-gives-thumbs-down-to-shariah-law-1.535601|archive-date=2017-10-09|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> while the province of [[Ontario]] allows family law disputes to be arbitrated only under Ontario law.<ref name=CHOKSI-14-3-2012>{{cite web|last1=Choski|first1=Bilal M.|title=Religious Arbitration in Ontario – Making the Case Based on the British Example of the Muslim Arbitration Tribunal|url=https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/970-choksi33upajintll7912012pdf|website=law.upenn.edu|accessdate=10 December 2015|date=14 March 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304072259/https://www.law.upenn.edu/live/files/970-choksi33upajintll7912012pdf|archive-date=2016-03-04|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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In the United States, various states have outlawed sharia, or passed some form of ballot measure which "prohibits the states courts from considering foreign, international or religious law." {{as of|2014}} these include Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee.<ref name=governing>{{cite web|last1=Farmer|first1=Liz|title=Alabama Joins Wave of States Banning Foreign Laws|url=http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-alabama-foreign-law-courts-amendment.html|website=governing.com|accessdate=27 August 2015|date=4 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910024007/http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-alabama-foreign-law-courts-amendment.html|archive-date=2015-09-10| |
In the United States, various states have outlawed sharia, or passed some form of ballot measure which "prohibits the states courts from considering foreign, international or religious law." {{as of|2014}} these include Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee.<ref name=governing>{{cite web|last1=Farmer|first1=Liz|title=Alabama Joins Wave of States Banning Foreign Laws|url=http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-alabama-foreign-law-courts-amendment.html|website=governing.com|accessdate=27 August 2015|date=4 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910024007/http://www.governing.com/topics/elections/gov-alabama-foreign-law-courts-amendment.html|archive-date=2015-09-10|url-status=live|df=}} |
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* Stahnke, Tad and Robert C. Blitt (2005), "The Religion-State Relationship and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Predominantly Muslim Countries." Georgetown Journal of International Law, volume 36, issue 4; also see [http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/index2.html Sharia Law profile by Country] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116095035/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/index2.html |date=2014-01-16 }}, Emory University (2011)</ref> |
* Stahnke, Tad and Robert C. Blitt (2005), "The Religion-State Relationship and the Right to Freedom of Religion or Belief: A Comparative Textual Analysis of the Constitutions of Predominantly Muslim Countries." Georgetown Journal of International Law, volume 36, issue 4; also see [http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/index2.html Sharia Law profile by Country] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140116095035/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/index2.html |date=2014-01-16 }}, Emory University (2011)</ref> |
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Criminal law in Afghanistan continues to be governed in large part by Islamic law. The 1976 Criminal Code introduced a quasi-secular system for all ''[[tazir]]'' offenses, but provided for application of ''[[hudud]]'', ''[[qisas]]'' and ''[[Diya (Islam)|diya]]'' according to the principles of [[Hanafi]] jurisprudence. In practice, as of 2003, the 1976 code was not widely applied, and virtually all courts, including the [[Afghan Supreme Court|Supreme Court of Afghanistan]], relied on Islamic law directly.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lau|first=Martin|title=Afghanistan's Legal System and its Compatibility with International Human Rights Standards|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/48a3f02c0.pdf|publisher=UNHCR|page=21|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608225917/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/48a3f02c0.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-08| |
Criminal law in Afghanistan continues to be governed in large part by Islamic law. The 1976 Criminal Code introduced a quasi-secular system for all ''[[tazir]]'' offenses, but provided for application of ''[[hudud]]'', ''[[qisas]]'' and ''[[Diya (Islam)|diya]]'' according to the principles of [[Hanafi]] jurisprudence. In practice, as of 2003, the 1976 code was not widely applied, and virtually all courts, including the [[Afghan Supreme Court|Supreme Court of Afghanistan]], relied on Islamic law directly.<ref>{{cite web|last=Lau|first=Martin|title=Afghanistan's Legal System and its Compatibility with International Human Rights Standards|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/48a3f02c0.pdf|publisher=UNHCR|page=21|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608225917/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/48a3f02c0.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-08|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Azerbaijan=== |
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The government is declared to be secular in the [[Constitution of Azerbaijan|constitution]].<ref name="cfr-gov-sharia">{{cite web |url=http://www.cfr.org/religion/islam-governing-under-sharia/p8034 |title=Islam: Governing Under Sharia |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203022058/http://www.cfr.org/religion/islam-governing-under-sharia/p8034 |archive-date=2013-02-03 | |
The government is declared to be secular in the [[Constitution of Azerbaijan|constitution]].<ref name="cfr-gov-sharia">{{cite web |url=http://www.cfr.org/religion/islam-governing-under-sharia/p8034 |title=Islam: Governing Under Sharia |publisher=Council on Foreign Relations |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130203022058/http://www.cfr.org/religion/islam-governing-under-sharia/p8034 |archive-date=2013-02-03 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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===Bahrain=== |
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Article 2 of Bahrain's 2002 Constitution as originally adopted, as well as after February 2012 amendment, declares Islamic Sharia is a chief source of legislation.<ref name=clarklombardi/><ref name=bahrainlaw/> Four tiers of ordinary courts have jurisdiction over cases related to civil, administrative and criminal matters, with Court of Cassation the highest civil court in Bahrain; in all matters, the judges are required to resort to Sharia in case legislation is silent or unclear.<ref name=bahrainlaw>{{cite web|title=Chapter III — Relevant Aspects of the Legal System and Description of the Enforcement Structures|url=http://www.govaction.bh/wps/themes/html/EgovBICI/en/pdfs/C3.pdf|publisher=Bahrain Government|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324203829/https://www.govaction.bh/wps/themes/html/EgovBICI/en/pdfs/C3.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-24| |
Article 2 of Bahrain's 2002 Constitution as originally adopted, as well as after February 2012 amendment, declares Islamic Sharia is a chief source of legislation.<ref name=clarklombardi/><ref name=bahrainlaw/> Four tiers of ordinary courts have jurisdiction over cases related to civil, administrative and criminal matters, with Court of Cassation the highest civil court in Bahrain; in all matters, the judges are required to resort to Sharia in case legislation is silent or unclear.<ref name=bahrainlaw>{{cite web|title=Chapter III — Relevant Aspects of the Legal System and Description of the Enforcement Structures|url=http://www.govaction.bh/wps/themes/html/EgovBICI/en/pdfs/C3.pdf|publisher=Bahrain Government|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324203829/https://www.govaction.bh/wps/themes/html/EgovBICI/en/pdfs/C3.pdf|archive-date=2016-03-24|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Sharia courts handle [[personal status]] laws.<ref>{{cite book|author=Gerhard Robbers|title=Encyclopedia of World Constitutions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=M3A-xgf1yM4C&pg=PA73&dq|accessdate=20 August 2013|year=2006|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-0816060788|page=73|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527195011/https://books.google.com/books?id=M3A-xgf1yM4C&pg=PA73&dq|archive-date=27 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Bahrain|url=http://www.freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/Bahrain.pdf|publisher=Freedom House|page=4|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002004344/https://freedomhouse.org/sites/default/files/inline_images/Bahrain.pdf|archive-date=2018-10-02|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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A personal status law was codified in 2009 to regulate personal status matters. It applies only to Sunni Muslims; there is no codified personal status law for Shiites. In a Shari’a court a Muslim woman's testimony is worth half of that of a Muslim man.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bahrain Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Bahrain-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620145410/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Bahrain-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20| |
A personal status law was codified in 2009 to regulate personal status matters. It applies only to Sunni Muslims; there is no codified personal status law for Shiites. In a Shari’a court a Muslim woman's testimony is worth half of that of a Muslim man.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bahrain Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Bahrain-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620145410/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Bahrain-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Bangladesh=== |
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Bangladesh has a secular constitution but Marriage, divorce, alimony and property inheritance are regulated by Sharia for Muslims.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Women and property rights: Who owns Bangladesh? |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/08/women-and-property-rights |magazine=The Economist |type=Blog |date=21 August 2013 |accessdate=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207191111/http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/08/women-and-property-rights |archive-date=2013-12-07 | |
Bangladesh has a secular constitution but Marriage, divorce, alimony and property inheritance are regulated by Sharia for Muslims.<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Women and property rights: Who owns Bangladesh? |url=https://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/08/women-and-property-rights |magazine=The Economist |type=Blog |date=21 August 2013 |accessdate=2 December 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131207191111/http://www.economist.com/blogs/banyan/2013/08/women-and-property-rights |archive-date=2013-12-07 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937 (XXVI of 1937) applies to Muslims in all matters relating to Family Affairs.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/bangladesh.htm |title=A Research Guide to the Legal System of the People's Republic of Bangladesh |website=GlobaLex |publisher=New York University School of Law |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130319151229/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Bangladesh.htm |archive-date=19 March 2013 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> Islamic family law is applied through the regular court system.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/bangladesh.htm |title=Bangladesh |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140621041521/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/bangladesh.htm |archive-date=2014-06-21 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> There are no limitations on interfaith marriages.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA197|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=19 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|page=197|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160603012725/https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA197|archive-date=3 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Brunei=== |
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Sharia courts decide personal status cases or cases relating to religious offences.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/brunei.htm |title=Brunei |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212080911/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/brunei.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 | |
Sharia courts decide personal status cases or cases relating to religious offences.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/brunei.htm |title=Brunei |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212080911/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/brunei.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> Sultan [[Hassanal Bolkiah]] declared in 2011 his wish to establish Islamic criminal law as soon as possible.<ref>{{cite web|title=Islamic Criminal Law in Brunei: Don't delay|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/10/11/islamic-criminal-law-brunei-dont-delay.html|publisher=The Jakarta Post|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305131808/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/10/11/islamic-criminal-law-brunei-dont-delay.html|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> A new penal code enacted in May 2014 will eventually prescribe sharia punishments, including the severing of limbs for property crimes and death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality.<ref name=latimesbrunei>{{cite web|title=Sultan of Brunei imposes harsh Islamic criminal code|url=http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-wn-brunei-sharia-law-20140501-story.html|publisher=Los Angeles Times|accessdate=7 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140506174624/http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-wn-brunei-sharia-law-20140501-story.html|archive-date=2014-05-06|url-status=live|df=|date=May 2014}}</ref> |
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===India=== |
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The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act 1937 directs the application of [[Muslim Personal Law]] to Muslims in a number of different areas, mainly related to family law.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/india.htm |title=India |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116220209/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/india.htm |archive-date=2013-01-16 | |
The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act 1937 directs the application of [[Muslim Personal Law]] to Muslims in a number of different areas, mainly related to family law.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/india.htm |title=India |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116220209/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/india.htm |archive-date=2013-01-16 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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Aceh is the only part of Indonesia to apply Sharia to criminal law. Islamic courts in Aceh had long handled cases of marriage, divorce and inheritance. After special autonomy legislation was passed in 2001, the reach of courts extend to criminal justice.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-east-asia/indonesia/117_islamic_law_and_criminal_justice_in_aceh.ashx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051340/http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-east-asia/indonesia/117_islamic_law_and_criminal_justice_in_aceh.ashx |archive-date=2016-03-04 | |
Aceh is the only part of Indonesia to apply Sharia to criminal law. Islamic courts in Aceh had long handled cases of marriage, divorce and inheritance. After special autonomy legislation was passed in 2001, the reach of courts extend to criminal justice.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-east-asia/indonesia/117_islamic_law_and_criminal_justice_in_aceh.ashx |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304051340/http://www.crisisgroup.org/~/media/Files/asia/south-east-asia/indonesia/117_islamic_law_and_criminal_justice_in_aceh.ashx |archive-date=2016-03-04 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> Offences such as being alone with an unrelated member of the opposite gender, gambling and breaking Islamic dress rules can be punished with a public caning.<ref>{{cite news|title=Aceh passes adultery stoning law|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8254631.stm|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=21 February 2013|date=14 September 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130226082411/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8254631.stm|archive-date=2013-02-26|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> In 2014, the provincial government of [[Aceh]] extended sharia's reach, enacting and enforcing sharia to apply it to non-Muslims as well.<ref>[http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/02/07/aceh-fully-enforces-sharia.html Aceh fully enforces sharia] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180307183758/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/02/07/aceh-fully-enforces-sharia.html |date=2018-03-07 }} The Jakarta Post (7 February 2014)</ref><ref>[https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21596577-politics-much-faith-behind-harder-line-laying-down-gods-law Laying down God's law] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924183938/https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21596577-politics-much-faith-behind-harder-line-laying-down-gods-law |date=2017-09-24 }} The Economist (15 February 2014). See [[Islamic criminal law in Aceh]].</ref> |
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In other parts of Indonesia, religious courts have jurisdiction over civil cases between Muslim spouses on matters concerning marriage, divorce, reconciliation, and alimony. The competence of religious courts is not exclusive, and parties can apply to District Courts for adjudication on basis of [[Roman Dutch law]] or local [[adat]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/indonesia.htm |title=Indonesia |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212080900/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/indonesia.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 | |
In other parts of Indonesia, religious courts have jurisdiction over civil cases between Muslim spouses on matters concerning marriage, divorce, reconciliation, and alimony. The competence of religious courts is not exclusive, and parties can apply to District Courts for adjudication on basis of [[Roman Dutch law]] or local [[adat]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/indonesia.htm |title=Indonesia |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212080900/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/indonesia.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref>{{update after|2014|8|22}} [[Suharto]]’s [[New Order (Indonesia)|New Order]] expanded the reach of Islamic law, first with the 1974 Marriage Act, which assigned jurisdiction over the marriage and divorce of Muslims to the Islamic courts ({{lang-id|peradilan agama}}), and with the 1989 Religious Judicature Act, which elevated Islamic courts by making them a parallel legal system, equal to state courts and gave them jurisdiction over inheritance (''wasiyyah''), gifts (''hibah'') and religious endowments.<ref name=mec/> Muslim litigants could originally choose whether to have inheritance questions decided by the Islamic courts or by the civil courts, but a 2006 amendment eliminated this possibility; the same amendment gave Islamic courts new jurisdiction over property disputes, including financial and economic matters.<ref name=mec/> Muslims seeking a divorce must also file their claim in Islamic courts.<ref name=mec/> The Compilation of Islamic Law 1991 ({{lang-id|Kompilasi Hukum Islam}}) regulates marriage, inheritance, and charitable trusts ([[wakaf]]).<ref name=mec/> Islamic law falls outside the jurisdiction of the [[Constitutional Court of Indonesia|Constitutional Court]].<ref name=mec>{{cite web|author1=Mark E. Cammack|author2=R. Michael Feener|title=The Islamic Legal System In Indonesia|url=http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handle/1773.1/1091/21PRPLJ013.pdf|accessdate=22 August 2014|pages=17–32|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701133616/http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handle/1773.1/1091/21PRPLJ013.pdf|archive-date=2017-07-01|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Since 2006, a number of [[Districts of Indonesia|districts]] have issued local ordinances based on sharia.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indonesia|url=http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2012/indonesia|work=Freedom in the World 2012|publisher=Freedom House|accessdate=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130131081103/http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2012/indonesia|archive-date=2013-01-31|url-status=live|df=|date=17 January 2012}}</ref> |
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===Iran=== |
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Article 167 of the [[Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran|constitution]] states that all judicial rulings must be based upon "authoritative Islamic sources and authentic fatwa".<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA231|accessdate=19 February 2013|date=19 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|page=231|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609184958/https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA231|archive-date=9 June 2016| |
Article 167 of the [[Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran|constitution]] states that all judicial rulings must be based upon "authoritative Islamic sources and authentic fatwa".<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA231|accessdate=19 February 2013|date=19 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|page=231|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160609184958/https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA231|archive-date=9 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Book 2 of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran is entirely devoted to hudud punishments.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/845048 |title=قانون مجازات اسلامی |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180815105408/http://rc.majlis.ir/fa/law/show/845048 |archive-date=2018-08-15 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> Iranian application of sharia has been seen by scholars as highly flexible and directly contradicting traditional interpretations of the sharia.<ref>{{cite book|last=Abrahamian|first=Ervand|title=A History of Modern Iran|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|location=Cambridge, UK; New York|year=2008|isbn=978-0521528917|page=190|quote=They allowed women to study abroad on state scholarships. They even passed bills directly contradicting traditional interpretations of the sharia. They eliminated all distinctions between men and women, between Muslims and non-Muslims, in accepting witnesses in court and awarding monetary compensations for damages. They increased the marriageable age for girls to fifteen (from thirteen). They reopened the judiciary to women. They gave them equal rights in divorce courts and permitted them to have custody rights over children under the age of seven. Never before in the Middle East had a freely elected parliament so blatantly challenged basic tenets of the sharia. What is more, they ratified the UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women – the USA has still refused to ratify this highly egalitarian convention. The liberal cause was further bolstered when Ayatollah Youssef Sanai, one of Khomeini’s favorite disciples, came out in full support of women’s rights. He ruled that the law should not differentiate between the sexes, and that women should have the right to become presidents, chief judges, and even Supreme Leaders.}}</ref> |
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===Iraq=== |
===Iraq=== |
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Article 1 of Civil Code identifies Islamic law as a main source of legislation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/iraq.htm |title=Iraq, Republic of |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date=16 March 1983 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116220220/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/iraq.htm |archive-date=2013-01-16 | |
Article 1 of Civil Code identifies Islamic law as a main source of legislation.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/iraq.htm |title=Iraq, Republic of |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date=16 March 1983 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116220220/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/iraq.htm |archive-date=2013-01-16 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> The 1958 Code, made polygamy extremely difficult, granted child custody to the mother in case of divorce, prohibited repudiation and marriage under the age of 16.<ref name="unesco1"/> In 1995, Iraq introduced Sharia punishment for certain types of criminal offenses.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA238|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=19 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|page=238|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130510035510/http://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA238|archive-date=10 May 2013|url-status=live}}</ref>{{clarify|Reason=The cited source makes only a passing mention of this, and it contradicts other sources which do not regard Iraq's criminal law as being sharia-based.|date=April 2019}} |
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Iraq's legal system is based on French civil law as well as Sunni and Jafari (Shi’ite) interpretations of Sharia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/iraq/islam-and-legal-system/religion-law-and-iraq%E2%80%99s-personal-status-code |title=Religion, Law, and Iraq's Personal Status Code |publisher=[[Islamopedia Online]] |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530225211/http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/iraq/islam-and-legal-system/religion-law-and-iraq%E2%80%99s-personal-status-code |archive-date=30 May 2013 | |
Iraq's legal system is based on French civil law as well as Sunni and Jafari (Shi’ite) interpretations of Sharia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/iraq/islam-and-legal-system/religion-law-and-iraq%E2%80%99s-personal-status-code |title=Religion, Law, and Iraq's Personal Status Code |publisher=[[Islamopedia Online]] |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130530225211/http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/iraq/islam-and-legal-system/religion-law-and-iraq%E2%80%99s-personal-status-code |archive-date=30 May 2013 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> Article 41 of the [[Constitution of Iraq|constitution]] allows for personal status matters (such as marriage, divorce and inheritance) to be governed by the rules of each religious group. The article has not yet been put into effect, and a unified personal status law remains in place that builds on the 1959 personal status code.<ref>{{cite web|title=Iraq Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Iraq-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620180303/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Iraq-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Israel=== |
===Israel=== |
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Islamic law is one of the sources of legislation for Muslim citizens.<ref name="sh"/> Islamic law is binding on personal law issues for Muslim citizens.<ref name="sh">{{cite news|title=Josh Goodman: What Sharia Law in Democracies Tells Us About Islam|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-goodman/post_965_b_744095.html|publisher=HuffPost Religion|date=29 September 2010|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305024952/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-goodman/post_965_b_744095.html|archive-date=2016-03-05| |
Islamic law is one of the sources of legislation for Muslim citizens.<ref name="sh"/> Islamic law is binding on personal law issues for Muslim citizens.<ref name="sh">{{cite news|title=Josh Goodman: What Sharia Law in Democracies Tells Us About Islam|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-goodman/post_965_b_744095.html|publisher=HuffPost Religion|date=29 September 2010|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305024952/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-goodman/post_965_b_744095.html|archive-date=2016-03-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> The Sharia Courts of Israel arose as a continuation of the Ottoman sharia courts, whose jurisdiction was restricted under the [[Mandate for Palestine|British Mandate]]. The Sharia Courts operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice and adjudicate matters relating to marriages, divorce, financial maintenance, legal capacity and guardianship, custody of children, paternity, prevention of domestic violence, conversion to Islam, and inheritance, among others.<ref name="The Sharia Courts"/> |
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===Jordan=== |
===Jordan=== |
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Jordan has [[Sharia]] [[courts]] and civil courts. Sharia courts have jurisdiction over personal status laws, cases concerning [[Diyya|Diya]] (blood money in cases of crime where both parties are Muslims, or one is and both the Muslim and non-Muslim consent to Sharia court's jurisdiction), and matters pertaining to Islamic Waqfs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.yale.edu/rcw/rcw/jurisdictions/asw/jordan/jordan_const_eng.pdf|title=Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of|publisher=Law.yale.edu|page=21|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616070132/http://www.law.yale.edu/rcw/rcw/jurisdictions/asw/jordan/jordan_const_eng.pdf|archive-date=2015-06-16| |
Jordan has [[Sharia]] [[courts]] and civil courts. Sharia courts have jurisdiction over personal status laws, cases concerning [[Diyya|Diya]] (blood money in cases of crime where both parties are Muslims, or one is and both the Muslim and non-Muslim consent to Sharia court's jurisdiction), and matters pertaining to Islamic Waqfs.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.yale.edu/rcw/rcw/jurisdictions/asw/jordan/jordan_const_eng.pdf|title=Jordan, Hashemite Kingdom of|publisher=Law.yale.edu|page=21|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150616070132/http://www.law.yale.edu/rcw/rcw/jurisdictions/asw/jordan/jordan_const_eng.pdf|archive-date=2015-06-16|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> The Family Law in force is the Personal Status Law of 1976, which is based on Islamic law .<ref name="unesco1">{{cite web|title=Women In Personal Status Laws: Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Syria|url=http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/SHS/pdf/Women_in_Personal_Status_Laws.pdf|work=SHS Papers in Women’s Studies/ Gender Research, No. 4|publisher=UNESCO|date=July 2005|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010052503/http://www.unesco.org/new/fileadmin/MULTIMEDIA/HQ/SHS/pdf/Women_in_Personal_Status_Laws.pdf|archive-date=2017-10-10|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> In Sharia courts, the testimony of two women is equal to that of one man.<ref>{{cite web|title=Jordan Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Jordan-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620190921/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Jordan-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Kazakhstan=== |
===Kazakhstan=== |
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Islamic law was in force up until early 1920.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/kazakhstan1.htm |title=UPDATE: Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan |website=GlobaLex |publisher=New York University School of Law |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531140000/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/kazakhstan1.htm |archive-date=31 May 2013 | |
Islamic law was in force up until early 1920.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/kazakhstan1.htm |title=UPDATE: Laws of the Republic of Kazakhstan |website=GlobaLex |publisher=New York University School of Law |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130531140000/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/kazakhstan1.htm |archive-date=31 May 2013 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> The 1995 [[Constitution of Kazakhstan|constitution]] is not based on sharia.<ref name="Brummell2012">{{cite book|author=Paul Brummell|title=Kazakhstan|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CH3PY_LSOlAC&pg=PA21|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=1 March 2012|publisher=Bradt Travel Guides|isbn=978-1841623696|page=21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160502173710/https://books.google.com/books?id=CH3PY_LSOlAC&pg=PA21|archive-date=2 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Kuwait=== |
===Kuwait=== |
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Article 2 of Kuwait's constitution identifies Islamic Sharia as a main source of legislation.<ref name=clarklombardi>{{cite journal|last1=Clark Lombardi|title=Sharia – A or The Chief Source of Legislation|journal=American University International Law Review|date=2013|volume=28|issue=3|pages=733–74|url=http://www.auilr.org/pdf/28/28.3.3.pdf|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915030843/http://www.auilr.org/pdf/28/28.3.3.pdf|archive-date=2014-09-15| |
Article 2 of Kuwait's constitution identifies Islamic Sharia as a main source of legislation.<ref name=clarklombardi>{{cite journal|last1=Clark Lombardi|title=Sharia – A or The Chief Source of Legislation|journal=American University International Law Review|date=2013|volume=28|issue=3|pages=733–74|url=http://www.auilr.org/pdf/28/28.3.3.pdf|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140915030843/http://www.auilr.org/pdf/28/28.3.3.pdf|archive-date=2014-09-15|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Constitution of Kuwait|url=http://www.kuwaitconstitution.org/kuwaitconstitutionenglish.html|publisher=Dustur Dawlat Al-Kuwait, Government of Kuwait (2014)|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180409085030/http://www.kuwaitconstitution.org/kuwaitconstitutionenglish.html|archive-date=2018-04-09|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> According to the [[United Nations]], Kuwait's legal system is a mix of [[British common law]], [[French civil law]], [[Egyptian Civil Code|Egyptian civil law]] and Islamic law.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan023178.pdf?q=kuwait|title=State of Kuwait, Public Administration Profile|page=7|publisher=[[United Nations]]|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180928040556/http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/un/unpan023178.pdf?q=kuwait|archive-date=2018-09-28|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> The sharia-based personal status law for Sunnis is based on the Maliki [[fiqh]] and for Shiites, their own school of Islam regulates personal status.<ref name="kuwaitunicef"/><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/kuwait.htm |title=Kuwait, State of |publisher=Law.emory.edu |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116215642/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/kuwait.htm |archive-date=2013-01-16 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> Before a family court the testimony of a woman is worth half of that of a man.<ref name=kuwaitunicef>{{cite web|title=Kuwait Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Kuwait-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620115915/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Kuwait-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Kuwait blocks internet content prohibited by Sharia.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=8hSbPrABnbsC&pg=PA261&dq|title=Routledge Handbook of Media Law|pages=262–64|author1=Monroe E. Price|author2=Stefaan Verhulst|author3=Libby Morgan|year=2013|isbn=978-1135109004|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160610075721/https://books.google.com/books?id=8hSbPrABnbsC&pg=PA261&dq|archive-date=10 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Kyrgyzstan=== |
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It has a civil law system.<ref name="cfr-gov-sharia"/> |
It has a civil law system.<ref name="cfr-gov-sharia"/> |
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===Lebanon=== |
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Lebanon's legal system is based on a combination of [[Civil law (legal system)|Civil Law]], Islamic law and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] laws.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Lebanese Constitution promulgated on May 23, 1926, with its Amendments|url=http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6675|publisher=[[World Intellectual Property Organization]]|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924184247/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6675|archive-date=2017-09-24| |
Lebanon's legal system is based on a combination of [[Civil law (legal system)|Civil Law]], Islamic law and [[Ottoman Empire|Ottoman]] laws.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Lebanese Constitution promulgated on May 23, 1926, with its Amendments|url=http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6675|publisher=[[World Intellectual Property Organization]]|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170924184247/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=6675|archive-date=2017-09-24|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> There are eighteen official religions in Lebanon, each with its own family law and religious courts. For the application of personal status laws, there are three separate sections: Sunni, Shia and non-Muslim. The Law of 16 July 1962 declares that Islamic law governs personal status laws of Muslims, with Sunni and Ja'afari Shia jurisdiction of Islamic law.<ref name="unesco1"/> |
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===Malaysia=== |
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Schedule 9 of Malaysian constitution recognizes Islamic law as a state subject; in other words, the states of Malaysia have the power to enact and enforce sharia.<ref name=aharding/> Islamic criminal law statutes have been passed at the state level in [[Terengganu]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Otto|first=Jan Michiel|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present|year=2009|publisher=Leiden University Press|location=Leiden|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=504–505|url=http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|quote=In Terengganu, where PAS took over the State government between 1999 and 2004, a hudud law was also passed.|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105224404/http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|archive-date=2013-11-05| |
Schedule 9 of Malaysian constitution recognizes Islamic law as a state subject; in other words, the states of Malaysia have the power to enact and enforce sharia.<ref name=aharding/> Islamic criminal law statutes have been passed at the state level in [[Terengganu]],<ref>{{cite book|last=Otto|first=Jan Michiel|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present|year=2009|publisher=Leiden University Press|location=Leiden|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=504–505|url=http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|quote=In Terengganu, where PAS took over the State government between 1999 and 2004, a hudud law was also passed.|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105224404/http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|archive-date=2013-11-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> [[Kelantan]]<ref>{{cite book|last=Otto|first=Jan Michiel|title=Sharia Incorporated: A Comparative Overview of the Legal Systems of Twelve Muslim Countries in Past and Present|year=2009|publisher=Leiden University Press|location=Leiden|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=504–05|url=http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|quote=On November 25, 1993, the State Legislative Assembly unanimously approved the hudud law.|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131105224404/http://dare.uva.nl/document/221087|archive-date=2013-11-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> and [[Perlis]],<ref>Shad Furuqi (2005), The Malaysian Constitution, the Islamic state and Hudud Laws, Chapter 13 in ''Islam in Southeast Asia'' (Editors: Nathan and Kamali), Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, {{ISBN|978-9812302830}}</ref>{{page needed|date=October 2014}} but as of 2014 none of these laws have been implemented, as they contravene the [[Constitution of Malaysia|Federal Constitution]].<ref name="Swee-HockKesavapany2006">{{cite book|author1=Saw Swee-Hock|author2=K Kesavapany|title=Malaysia: Recent Trends and Challenges|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EHtO7JdRLO0C&pg=PA105|date=January 2006|publisher=Institute of Southeast Asian Studies|isbn=978-9812303394|page=105|quote=this law, being in contravention to the Federal Constitution, has remained inoperative.|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160506035555/https://books.google.com/books?id=EHtO7JdRLO0C&pg=PA105|archive-date=6 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="BearmanPeters2014">{{cite book|author1=Peri Bearman|author2=Professor Rudolph Peters|title=The Ashgate Research Companion to Islamic Law|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iBR7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA240|date=28 August 2014|publisher=Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.|isbn=978-1409438939|page=240|quote=the government of Kelantan admitted to the largely symbolic nature of the law, with the Chief Minister of Kelantan stating a few days after its unanimous passage that it "could not be implemented until the Federal Government of Malaysia makes changes to the Federal Constitution"|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529070726/https://books.google.com/books?id=iBR7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PA240|archive-date=29 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Salim2008">{{cite book|author=Arskal Salim|title=Challenging the Secular State: The Islamization of Law in Modern Indonesia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pnUI036m3tUC&pg=PA176|year=2008|publisher=University of Hawaii Press|isbn=978-0824832377|pages=176|quote=The bill, however, was rejected by the Malaysian federal government on the grounds that it clashed with the federal constitution.|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160522005734/https://books.google.com/books?id=pnUI036m3tUC&pg=PA176|archive-date=22 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In 2007, Malaysia's Federal court ruled that [[apostasy]] matter lay "within the exclusive jurisdiction of Sharia Courts".<ref name=aharding>{{cite book|last1=Harding|first1=Andrew|editor1-last=Otto|editor1-first=Jan|title=Sharia Incorporated|publisher=Leiden University Press|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=491–521|year=2010}}</ref> Malaysian Muslims can be sentenced to [[Caning in Malaysia|caning]] for such offences as drinking beer,<ref>{{cite news|title=Woman in Malaysia Caning Sentence Freed|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125102803820651875|publisher=WSJ.com|accessdate=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710211518/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125102803820651875|archive-date=2015-07-10| |
In 2007, Malaysia's Federal court ruled that [[apostasy]] matter lay "within the exclusive jurisdiction of Sharia Courts".<ref name=aharding>{{cite book|last1=Harding|first1=Andrew|editor1-last=Otto|editor1-first=Jan|title=Sharia Incorporated|publisher=Leiden University Press|isbn=978-9087280574|pages=491–521|year=2010}}</ref> Malaysian Muslims can be sentenced to [[Caning in Malaysia|caning]] for such offences as drinking beer,<ref>{{cite news|title=Woman in Malaysia Caning Sentence Freed|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125102803820651875|publisher=WSJ.com|accessdate=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150710211518/http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB125102803820651875|archive-date=2015-07-10|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> and adultery.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Malaysia begins caning women for adultery|journal=Christian Science Monitor|url=http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0218/Malaysia-begins-caning-women-for-adultery|publisher=CSMonitor.com|accessdate=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130304210827/http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-Pacific/2010/0218/Malaysia-begins-caning-women-for-adultery|archive-date=2013-03-04|url-status=live|df=|date=18 February 2010}}</ref> Several sharia crimes, such as ''khalwat'' (close proximity of unmarried man and woman) are punishable only in Sharia courts of Malaysia. Publishing an Islamic book that is different from official Malaysian version, without permission, is a crime in some states. Other sharia-based criminal laws were enacted with "Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territory) Act of 1997".<ref name=aharding/> |
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Muslims are bound by Sharia on personal matters, while members of other faiths follow civil law. Muslims are required to follow Islamic law in family, property and religious matters.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA198|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=19 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|page=198|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527122002/https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA198|archive-date=27 May 2016| |
Muslims are bound by Sharia on personal matters, while members of other faiths follow civil law. Muslims are required to follow Islamic law in family, property and religious matters.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA198|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=19 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|page=198|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160527122002/https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA198|archive-date=27 May 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> In 1988 the [[Constitution of Malaysia|constitution]] was amended to state that civil courts cannot hear matters that fall within the jurisdiction of Sharia courts.<ref>{{cite news |last=Pak |first=Jennifer |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-14630851 |title=Malaysia's parallel judicial systems come up against legal challenges |publisher=BBC News |date=5 September 2011 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130202083826/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-14630851 |archive-date=2013-02-02 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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===Maldives=== |
===Maldives=== |
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Article 15 of the Act Number 1/81 (Penal Code) allows for [[hudud]] punishments.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maldives Penal Code|url=http://www.agoffice.gov.mv/pdf/sublawe/PC1.pdf|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607090225/http://www.agoffice.gov.mv/pdf/sublawe/PC1.pdf|archive-date=2013-06-07| |
Article 15 of the Act Number 1/81 (Penal Code) allows for [[hudud]] punishments.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maldives Penal Code|url=http://www.agoffice.gov.mv/pdf/sublawe/PC1.pdf|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130607090225/http://www.agoffice.gov.mv/pdf/sublawe/PC1.pdf|archive-date=2013-06-07|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Article 156 of the [[Constitution of the Maldives|constitution]] states that law includes the norms and provisions of sharia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/maldives.htm |title=Maldives |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date=16 March 1983 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130211221153/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/maldives.htm |archive-date=2013-02-11 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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===Myanmar=== |
===Myanmar=== |
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In [[Myanmar]], sharia has been applied for personal status issues since colonial times, under section 13 of Burma Law Act, 1898.<ref name="burmlib"/> Court precedents also decided that [[Waqf]] matters are to be decided under Islamic law. The 1952 Myanmar Muslim Dissolution of Marriage Act states that a Muslim woman has the right to divorce her husband with appropriate cause.<ref name="burmlib"/> Matters relating to sharia family law are decided by civil courts.<ref name="burmlib">{{cite web |last1=Aung |first1=Marlar Than |title=Current Legal Framework of Islamic Family Law in Myanmar |url=http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/Marlar_Than_Aung-Current_Legal_Framework_of_Islamic_Family_Law_in_Myanmar.pdf |accessdate=13 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113160648/http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/Marlar_Than_Aung-Current_Legal_Framework_of_Islamic_Family_Law_in_Myanmar.pdf |archive-date=2018-11-13 | |
In [[Myanmar]], sharia has been applied for personal status issues since colonial times, under section 13 of Burma Law Act, 1898.<ref name="burmlib"/> Court precedents also decided that [[Waqf]] matters are to be decided under Islamic law. The 1952 Myanmar Muslim Dissolution of Marriage Act states that a Muslim woman has the right to divorce her husband with appropriate cause.<ref name="burmlib"/> Matters relating to sharia family law are decided by civil courts.<ref name="burmlib">{{cite web |last1=Aung |first1=Marlar Than |title=Current Legal Framework of Islamic Family Law in Myanmar |url=http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/Marlar_Than_Aung-Current_Legal_Framework_of_Islamic_Family_Law_in_Myanmar.pdf |accessdate=13 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181113160648/http://www.burmalibrary.org/docs21/Marlar_Than_Aung-Current_Legal_Framework_of_Islamic_Family_Law_in_Myanmar.pdf |archive-date=2018-11-13 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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===Oman=== |
===Oman=== |
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Islamic Sharia is the basis for legislation in Oman per Article 2 of its Constitution, and promulgated as Sultani Decree 101/1996.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mechantaf|first1=Khalil|title=The Legal System and Research in the Sultanate of Oman|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Oman.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015012919/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/oman.htm|archive-date=2016-10-15| |
Islamic Sharia is the basis for legislation in Oman per Article 2 of its Constitution, and promulgated as Sultani Decree 101/1996.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Mechantaf|first1=Khalil|title=The Legal System and Research in the Sultanate of Oman|url=http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/Oman.htm|website=GlobaLex|publisher=New York University School of Law|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161015012919/http://www.nyulawglobal.org/globalex/oman.htm|archive-date=2016-10-15|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> The Personal Statute (Family) Law issued by Royal Decree 97/32 codified provisions of Sharia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mofa.gov.om/mofanew/index.asp?id=18 |title=Sultanate of Oman |publisher=Ministry of Foreign Affairs |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505064242/http://www.mofa.gov.om/mofanew/index.asp?id=18 |archive-date=2008-05-05 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> Sharia Court Departments within the civil court system are responsible for personal status matters.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2012/oman |title=Oman |publisher=Freedom House |date= 17 January 2012|accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121025073322/http://www.freedomhouse.org/report/freedom-world/2012/oman |archive-date=2012-10-25 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> A 2008 law stipulates that the testimonies of men and women before a court are equal.<ref>{{cite web|title=Oman Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Oman-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620174153/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Oman-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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Oman's criminal law is based on a combination of Sharia and English common law.<ref name="Newman2010">{{cite book|author=Graeme R. Newman|title=Crime and Punishment around the World [4 volumes]: [Four Volumes]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uK6bR9byVIC&pg=PA336|date=19 October 2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0313351341|pages=336–37|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617131202/https://books.google.com/books?id=2uK6bR9byVIC&pg=PA336|archive-date=17 June 2016| |
Oman's criminal law is based on a combination of Sharia and English common law.<ref name="Newman2010">{{cite book|author=Graeme R. Newman|title=Crime and Punishment around the World [4 volumes]: [Four Volumes]|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2uK6bR9byVIC&pg=PA336|date=19 October 2010|publisher=ABC-CLIO|isbn=978-0313351341|pages=336–37|access-date=12 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160617131202/https://books.google.com/books?id=2uK6bR9byVIC&pg=PA336|archive-date=17 June 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Omani commercial law is largely based on Sharia; Article 5 of its Law of Commerce defaults to primacy of Sharia in cases of confusion, silence or conflict. |
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===Pakistan=== |
===Pakistan=== |
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Until 1978 Islamic law was largely restricted to personal status issues. [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia ul Haq]] introduced Sharia courts and made far reaching changes in the criminal justice system.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/pakistan/islam-and-legal-system |title=Islam and the Legal System |publisher=[[Islamopedia Online]] |date= |accessdate=2013-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104170613/http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/pakistan/islam-and-legal-system |archive-date=4 November 2012 | |
Until 1978 Islamic law was largely restricted to personal status issues. [[Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq|Zia ul Haq]] introduced Sharia courts and made far reaching changes in the criminal justice system.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/pakistan/islam-and-legal-system |title=Islam and the Legal System |publisher=[[Islamopedia Online]] |date= |accessdate=2013-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104170613/http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/pakistan/islam-and-legal-system |archive-date=4 November 2012 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> Articles 203a to 203j of the [[Constitution of Pakistan|constitution]] establish a sharia court with the power to judge any law or government actions to be against Islam, and to review court cases for adherence to Islamic law. |
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The penal code includes elements of sharia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA200|accessdate=2013-02-18|date=2008-05-19|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|page=200|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826105313/https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA200|archive-date=26 August 2016| |
The penal code includes elements of sharia.<ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA200|accessdate=2013-02-18|date=2008-05-19|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|page=200|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160826105313/https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA200|archive-date=26 August 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> Under article 5, section 2 of the [[Hudood Ordinance|Ordinance No. VII of 1979]], whoever is guilty of [[zina]], "if he or she is a [[muhsan]], be stoned to death at a public place; or if he or she is not a muhsan, be punished, at a public place, with whipping numbering one hundred stripes".<ref>{{cite web|title=The Offence of Zina (Enforcement of Hudood) Ordinance (VII of 1979)|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4db999952.pdf|publisher=UNHCR|accessdate=21 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170608213615/http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/pdfid/4db999952.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-08|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Under a [[Women's Protection Bill|2006 law]], rape cases can be heard under civil as well as Islamic law.<ref>{{cite news|title=Pakistan votes to amend rape laws|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6148590.stm|publisher=BBC News|accessdate=21 February 2013|date=2006-11-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121114173029/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6148590.stm|archive-date=2012-11-14|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Philippines=== |
===Philippines=== |
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There are sharia trial and circuit trial courts in [[Mindanao]], which is home to the country's significant [[Islam in the Philippines|Filipino Muslim]] minority.<ref name="Group">{{cite book|author=Oxford Business Group|title=The Report: The Philippines 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k10wHwlXvgMC&pg=PA14|accessdate=19 February 2013|publisher=Oxford Business Group|isbn=978-1907065118|page=14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012223452/http://books.google.com/books?id=k10wHwlXvgMC&pg=PA14|archive-date=12 October 2013| |
There are sharia trial and circuit trial courts in [[Mindanao]], which is home to the country's significant [[Islam in the Philippines|Filipino Muslim]] minority.<ref name="Group">{{cite book|author=Oxford Business Group|title=The Report: The Philippines 2010|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k10wHwlXvgMC&pg=PA14|accessdate=19 February 2013|publisher=Oxford Business Group|isbn=978-1907065118|page=14|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012223452/http://books.google.com/books?id=k10wHwlXvgMC&pg=PA14|archive-date=12 October 2013|url-status=live}}</ref> Sharia District Courts (SDCs) and Sharia Circuit Courts (SCCs) were created in 1977 through Presidential Decree 1083, which is also known as the Code of Muslim Personal Laws.<ref>{{cite web|title=A primer on the Philippine Sharia courts|url=http://www.muslimmindanao.ph/shari%27a/code_muslim.pdf|publisher=Asian Institute of Journalism and Communication|accessdate=19 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820052012/http://www.muslimmindanao.ph/shari%27a/code_muslim.pdf|archive-date=2013-08-20|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Islamic law only applies to civil cases involving all Muslims nationwide. |
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Cases are handled in the [[Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao]] and a couple of Mindanao provinces that are not part of ARMM by both sharia district and circuit courts, organised into five sharia districts. Outside these areas, sharia-related cases are processed in civil courts under a session from the five sharia districts.<ref>[http://www.chanrobles.com/presidentialdecreeno1083.htm Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111000009/http://www.chanrobles.com/presidentialdecreeno1083.htm |date=2018-11-11 }}.</ref> All other cases, including criminal ones, are dealt with by local civil courts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Analysis: Mindanao's uncertain road to peace |url=http://www.irinnews.org/report/96627/analysis-mindanao-s-uncertain-road-to-peace |publisher=IRIN News |accessdate=14 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107224011/http://www.irinnews.org/report/96627/analysis-mindanao-s-uncertain-road-to-peace |archive-date=2015-01-07 | |
Cases are handled in the [[Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao]] and a couple of Mindanao provinces that are not part of ARMM by both sharia district and circuit courts, organised into five sharia districts. Outside these areas, sharia-related cases are processed in civil courts under a session from the five sharia districts.<ref>[http://www.chanrobles.com/presidentialdecreeno1083.htm Code of Muslim Personal Laws of the Philippines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111000009/http://www.chanrobles.com/presidentialdecreeno1083.htm |date=2018-11-11 }}.</ref> All other cases, including criminal ones, are dealt with by local civil courts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Analysis: Mindanao's uncertain road to peace |url=http://www.irinnews.org/report/96627/analysis-mindanao-s-uncertain-road-to-peace |publisher=IRIN News |accessdate=14 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150107224011/http://www.irinnews.org/report/96627/analysis-mindanao-s-uncertain-road-to-peace |archive-date=2015-01-07 |url-status=live |df= |date=24 October 2012 }}</ref> |
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===Qatar=== |
===Qatar=== |
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[[Sharia]] is the main source of Qatari legislation according to Qatar's Constitution.<ref name="con">{{cite web|title=The Permanent Constitution of the State of Qatar|url=http://www.almeezan.qa/LawArticles.aspx?LawArticleID=25754&LawId=2284&language=en|publisher=Government of Qatar|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006075128/http://www.almeezan.qa/LawArticles.aspx?LawArticleID=25754&LawId=2284&language=en|archive-date=2014-10-06| |
[[Sharia]] is the main source of Qatari legislation according to Qatar's Constitution.<ref name="con">{{cite web|title=The Permanent Constitution of the State of Qatar|url=http://www.almeezan.qa/LawArticles.aspx?LawArticleID=25754&LawId=2284&language=en|publisher=Government of Qatar|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006075128/http://www.almeezan.qa/LawArticles.aspx?LawArticleID=25754&LawId=2284&language=en|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref><ref name=qat1>{{cite web|title=Constitution of Qatar|url=http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=9626|quote=According to Article 1: Qatar is an independent Arab country. Islam is its religion and Islamic law is the main source of its legislation.|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006153437/http://www.wipo.int/wipolex/en/details.jsp?id=9626|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Islamic law is applied to laws pertaining to [[family law]], [[inheritance]], and several [[criminal law|criminal acts]] (including adultery, robbery and murder). In some cases in Sharia-based [[family court]]s, a female's testimony is worth half a man's and in some cases a female witness is not accepted at all.<ref>{{cite web|title=Qatar Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Qatar-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140629121154/http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Qatar-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2014-06-29|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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[[Flogging]] is used in Qatar as a punishment for alcohol consumption or illicit sexual relations.<ref name="amne" /> Article 88 of Qatar's criminal code declares the punishment for adultery is [[flagellation|100 lashes]].<ref name="flog" /> Adultery is punishable by death when a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man are involved.<ref name="flog" /> In 2006, a [[Filipino people|Filipino]] woman was sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery.<ref name="flog">{{cite web|title=Filipino woman gets 100 lashes for giving birth in Qatar|url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/9758/news/nation/filipino-woman-gets-100-lashes-for-giving-birth-in-qatar|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006073504/http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/9758/news/nation/filipino-woman-gets-100-lashes-for-giving-birth-in-qatar|archive-date=2014-10-06| |
[[Flogging]] is used in Qatar as a punishment for alcohol consumption or illicit sexual relations.<ref name="amne" /> Article 88 of Qatar's criminal code declares the punishment for adultery is [[flagellation|100 lashes]].<ref name="flog" /> Adultery is punishable by death when a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man are involved.<ref name="flog" /> In 2006, a [[Filipino people|Filipino]] woman was sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery.<ref name="flog">{{cite web|title=Filipino woman gets 100 lashes for giving birth in Qatar|url=http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/9758/news/nation/filipino-woman-gets-100-lashes-for-giving-birth-in-qatar|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006073504/http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/9758/news/nation/filipino-woman-gets-100-lashes-for-giving-birth-in-qatar|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> In 2012, six expatriates were sentenced to floggings of either 40 or 100 lashes.<ref name="amne">{{cite web|title=Amnesty International Annual Report 2012 – Qatar|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/region/qatar/report-2012#section-27-6|publisher=Amnesty International|accessdate=19 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724102826/http://www.amnesty.org/en/region/qatar/report-2012#section-27-6|archive-date=2014-07-24|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> More recently in April 2013, a Muslim expatriate was sentenced to 40 lashes for alcohol consumption.<ref>{{cite web|title=Qatar sentences man to 40 lashes for drinking alcohol|url=http://www.arabianbusiness.com/qatar-sentences-man-40-lashes-for-drinking-alcohol-498986.html|publisher=Arabian Business|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006120716/http://www.arabianbusiness.com/qatar-sentences-man-40-lashes-for-drinking-alcohol-498986.html|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Qatar sentences man to lashes for drinking alcohol|url=http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/15593|publisher=Al Akhbar|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006143325/http://english.al-akhbar.com/node/15593|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Qatar court orders lashing of Muslim barber over drinking alcohol|url=http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/22/Qatar-to-lash-Muslim-barber-over-drinking-alcohol-.htm|publisher=Al Arabiya|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629120550/http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2013/04/22/Qatar-to-lash-Muslim-barber-over-drinking-alcohol-.htm|archive-date=2017-06-29|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> In June 2014, a Muslim expatriate was sentenced to 40 lashes for consuming alcohol and driving under the influence.<ref>{{cite web|title=Indian expat sentenced to 40 lashes in Qatar for drink-driving|url=http://www.arabianbusiness.com/indian-expat-sentenced-40-lashes-in-qatar-for-drink-driving-552601.html|publisher=Arabian Business|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006115210/http://www.arabianbusiness.com/indian-expat-sentenced-40-lashes-in-qatar-for-drink-driving-552601.html|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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[[Judicial corporal punishment]] is common in Qatar due to the [[Hanbali|Hanbali interpretation]] of Islamic law. Article 1 of the Law No. 11 Of 2004 (Penal Code) allows for the application of "Sharia provisions" for the crimes of theft, adultery, defamation, drinking alcohol and apostasy if either the suspect or the victim is a Muslim.<ref>{{cite web|title=Law No. (11) of 2004 Penal Code|url=http://www.qfiu.gov.qa/files/Law%2023%20for%20the%20year2004-E.pdf|publisher=Qatar Financial Information Unit|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602114011/http://www.qfiu.gov.qa/files/Law%2023%20for%20the%20year2004-E.pdf|archive-date=2013-06-02| |
[[Judicial corporal punishment]] is common in Qatar due to the [[Hanbali|Hanbali interpretation]] of Islamic law. Article 1 of the Law No. 11 Of 2004 (Penal Code) allows for the application of "Sharia provisions" for the crimes of theft, adultery, defamation, drinking alcohol and apostasy if either the suspect or the victim is a Muslim.<ref>{{cite web|title=Law No. (11) of 2004 Penal Code|url=http://www.qfiu.gov.qa/files/Law%2023%20for%20the%20year2004-E.pdf|publisher=Qatar Financial Information Unit|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602114011/http://www.qfiu.gov.qa/files/Law%2023%20for%20the%20year2004-E.pdf|archive-date=2013-06-02|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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===Saudi Arabia=== |
===Saudi Arabia=== |
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Saudi criminal law is based entirely on sharia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ukinsaudiarabia.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/when-things-go-wrong/Prison-Information |title=Prison Information Pack – Saudi Arabia |publisher=Ukinsaudiarabia.fco.gov.uk |date=9 April 2012 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111071307/http://ukinsaudiarabia.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/when-things-go-wrong/Prison-Information |archive-date=2012-01-11 | |
Saudi criminal law is based entirely on sharia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://ukinsaudiarabia.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/when-things-go-wrong/Prison-Information |title=Prison Information Pack – Saudi Arabia |publisher=Ukinsaudiarabia.fco.gov.uk |date=9 April 2012 |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120111071307/http://ukinsaudiarabia.fco.gov.uk/en/help-for-british-nationals/when-things-go-wrong/Prison-Information |archive-date=2012-01-11 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> No codified personal status law exists, which means that judges in courts rule based on their own interpretations of sharia.<ref>{{cite web|title=MENA Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/REGIONAL-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|accessdate=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605134725/http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/REGIONAL-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2012-06-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> See [[Legal system of Saudi Arabia]] |
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===Singapore=== |
===Singapore=== |
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Sharia courts may hear and determine actions in which all parties are Muslims or in which parties involved were married under Muslim law. Court has jurisdiction over cases related to marriage, divorce, betrothal, nullity of marriage, judicial separation, division of property on divorce, payment of dowry, maintenance, and [[Mut'ah|muta]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/singapore.htm |title=Singapore |publisher=Law.emory.edu |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212052632/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/singapore.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 | |
Sharia courts may hear and determine actions in which all parties are Muslims or in which parties involved were married under Muslim law. Court has jurisdiction over cases related to marriage, divorce, betrothal, nullity of marriage, judicial separation, division of property on divorce, payment of dowry, maintenance, and [[Mut'ah|muta]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/singapore.htm |title=Singapore |publisher=Law.emory.edu |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212052632/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/singapore.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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===Sri Lanka=== |
===Sri Lanka=== |
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Private matters of Muslims are governed by Muslim Law, including marriage, divorce custody and maintenance. Muslim law principles have been codified in the Act No. 13 of 1951 Marriage and Divorce (Muslim) Act; Act No. 10 of 1931 Muslim Intestate Succession Ordinance and Act No. 51 of 1956 Muslim Mosques and Charitable Trusts or Wakfs Act.<ref>{{cite news|title=Muslim Law in Sri Lanka|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/01/27/fea10.asp|accessdate=19 February 2013|newspaper=Sri Lanka Daily News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311141624/http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/01/27/fea10.asp|archive-date=2013-03-11| |
Private matters of Muslims are governed by Muslim Law, including marriage, divorce custody and maintenance. Muslim law principles have been codified in the Act No. 13 of 1951 Marriage and Divorce (Muslim) Act; Act No. 10 of 1931 Muslim Intestate Succession Ordinance and Act No. 51 of 1956 Muslim Mosques and Charitable Trusts or Wakfs Act.<ref>{{cite news|title=Muslim Law in Sri Lanka|url=http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/01/27/fea10.asp|accessdate=19 February 2013|newspaper=Sri Lanka Daily News|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130311141624/http://www.dailynews.lk/2012/01/27/fea10.asp|archive-date=2013-03-11|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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===Syria=== |
===Syria=== |
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Article 3 of the 1973 [[Constitution of Syria|Syrian constitution]] declares Islamic jurisprudence one of Syria's main sources of legislation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/syria.htm|title=Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)|publisher=Law.emory.edu|accessdate=21 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125091656/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/syria.htm|archive-date=2014-01-25| |
Article 3 of the 1973 [[Constitution of Syria|Syrian constitution]] declares Islamic jurisprudence one of Syria's main sources of legislation.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/syria.htm|title=Syria (Syrian Arab Republic)|publisher=Law.emory.edu|accessdate=21 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125091656/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/syria.htm|archive-date=2014-01-25|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> The Personal Status Law 59 of 1953 (amended by Law 34 of 1975) is essentially a codified Islamic law.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syria|url=http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/Syria_APS.doc|publisher=Carnegie Endowment for International Peace|page=13|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171009204530/http://carnegieendowment.org/files/Syria_APS.doc|archive-date=2017-10-09|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> The Code of Personal Status is applied to Muslims by Sharia courts.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/syria.htm |title=Syria (Syrian Arab Republic) |publisher=Law.emory.edu |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140125091656/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/syria.htm |archive-date=2014-01-25 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> In Sharia courts, a woman's testimony is worth only half of a man's.<ref>{{cite web|title=Syria Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Syria-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181111000138/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/Syria-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2018-11-11|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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===Tajikistan=== |
===Tajikistan=== |
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The government is declared to be secular in the [[Constitution of Tajikistan|constitution]].<ref name="cfr-gov-sharia"/> |
The government is declared to be secular in the [[Constitution of Tajikistan|constitution]].<ref name="cfr-gov-sharia"/> |
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===Thailand=== |
===Thailand=== |
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[[File:Sharia law in Thailand.png|thumb|Sharia provinces in Thailand]] |
[[File:Sharia law in Thailand.png|thumb|Sharia provinces in Thailand]] |
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In [[Yala Province|Yala]], [[Narathiwat Province|Narathiwat]], [[Pattani Province|Pattani]] and [[Songkhla Province|Songkhla]] provinces, Islamic law is allowed for settling family and inheritance issues under a 1946 law.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thailand May Extend Shariah Law in Violence-Ridden Muslim South|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ay7noiDdsTm0|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=22 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309121719/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ay7noiDdsTm0|archive-date=2013-03-09| |
In [[Yala Province|Yala]], [[Narathiwat Province|Narathiwat]], [[Pattani Province|Pattani]] and [[Songkhla Province|Songkhla]] provinces, Islamic law is allowed for settling family and inheritance issues under a 1946 law.<ref>{{cite news|title=Thailand May Extend Shariah Law in Violence-Ridden Muslim South|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ay7noiDdsTm0|publisher=Bloomberg L.P.|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=22 June 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130309121719/http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=ay7noiDdsTm0|archive-date=2013-03-09|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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The remaining provinces of Thailand have a civil law system with common law influences.<ref name=wf-legal/> |
The remaining provinces of Thailand have a civil law system with common law influences.<ref name=wf-legal/> |
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===Turkey=== |
===Turkey=== |
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As part of [[Atatürk's Reforms]], sharia was abolished in April 1924, with the ''Law Regarding the Abolition of Islamic Law Courts and Amendments Regarding the Court Organization''.<ref name="Grigoriadis2012">{{cite book|author=Ioannis N. Grigoriadis|title=Instilling Religion in Greek and Turkish Nationalism: A "Sacred Synthesis"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAWLUF8Hsb8C&pg=PA63|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=30 October 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1137301192|page=63|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425010303/https://books.google.com/books?id=IAWLUF8Hsb8C&pg=PA63|archive-date=25 April 2016| |
As part of [[Atatürk's Reforms]], sharia was abolished in April 1924, with the ''Law Regarding the Abolition of Islamic Law Courts and Amendments Regarding the Court Organization''.<ref name="Grigoriadis2012">{{cite book|author=Ioannis N. Grigoriadis|title=Instilling Religion in Greek and Turkish Nationalism: A "Sacred Synthesis"|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IAWLUF8Hsb8C&pg=PA63|accessdate=18 February 2013|date=30 October 2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=978-1137301192|page=63|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160425010303/https://books.google.com/books?id=IAWLUF8Hsb8C&pg=PA63|archive-date=25 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Turkmenistan=== |
===Turkmenistan=== |
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Article 11 of the [[Constitution of Turkmenistan|constitution]] declares that religious groups are separate from the state and the state educational system. But the legal system is civil law with Islamic influences <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Government/Legal-system |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405090026/http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Government/Legal-system |archive-date=2018-04-05 | |
Article 11 of the [[Constitution of Turkmenistan|constitution]] declares that religious groups are separate from the state and the state educational system. But the legal system is civil law with Islamic influences <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Government/Legal-system |title=Archived copy |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180405090026/http://www.nationmaster.com/country-info/stats/Government/Legal-system |archive-date=2018-04-05 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Jonathan Fox|title=A World Survey of Religion and the State|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA276|accessdate=19 February 2013|date=19 May 2008|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-1139472593|pages=146–48|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160428010356/https://books.google.com/books?id=rE0NcgxNaKEC&pg=PA276|archive-date=28 April 2016|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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The court system comprises Sharia courts and civil courts. [[Judicial corporal punishment]] is a legal form of punishment in UAE due to the Sharia courts. [[Flogging]] is used in UAE as a punishment for criminal offences such as [[adultery]], premarital sex and prostitution.<ref name=fanack>{{cite web|url=http://fanack.com/en/countries/uae/administration-politics/torture-and-flogging/ |title=Torture and flogging|publisher=Fanack |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006131138/http://fanack.com/en/countries/uae/administration-politics/torture-and-flogging/ |archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref> In most emirates, floggings of Muslims are frequent, especially for adultery, prostitution and drunkenness, with sentences ranging from 80 to 200 lashes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corpun.com/counaej.htm|title=UAE: Judicial corporal punishment by flogging|publisher=World Corporal Punishment Research|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010155118/http://www.corpun.com/counaej.htm|archive-date=2017-10-10| |
The court system comprises Sharia courts and civil courts. [[Judicial corporal punishment]] is a legal form of punishment in UAE due to the Sharia courts. [[Flogging]] is used in UAE as a punishment for criminal offences such as [[adultery]], premarital sex and prostitution.<ref name=fanack>{{cite web|url=http://fanack.com/en/countries/uae/administration-politics/torture-and-flogging/ |title=Torture and flogging|publisher=Fanack |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006131138/http://fanack.com/en/countries/uae/administration-politics/torture-and-flogging/ |archive-date=6 October 2014}}</ref> In most emirates, floggings of Muslims are frequent, especially for adultery, prostitution and drunkenness, with sentences ranging from 80 to 200 lashes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.corpun.com/counaej.htm|title=UAE: Judicial corporal punishment by flogging|publisher=World Corporal Punishment Research|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171010155118/http://www.corpun.com/counaej.htm|archive-date=2017-10-10|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/asia_pacific/uae.html|title=United Arab Emirates|publisher=Crime and Society|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150529050919/http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/faculty/rwinslow/asia_pacific/uae.html|archive-date=2015-05-29|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> Between 2007 and 2013, many people were sentenced to 100 lashes.<ref name=fanack/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://7daysindubai.com/news-14918/ |title=Pregnant maid to get 100 lashes after being found guilty of illegal affair |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006151535/http://7daysindubai.com/news-14918/ |archive-date=6 October 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=281982|title=Teenager to be lashed for adultery|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150714193225/http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/NewsDetails.aspx?storyid=281982|archive-date=2015-07-14|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/illicit-lovers-sentenced-to-100-lashes-each-1.712261|title=Illicit lovers sentenced to 100 lashes each|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131018070417/http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/illicit-lovers-sentenced-to-100-lashes-each-1.712261|archive-date=2013-10-18|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref name="khaleejtimes.com">{{cite web|url=http://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/inside.asp?xfile=/data/courtroundup/2013/September/courtroundup_September33.xml§ion=courtroundup|title=Two women sentenced to death for adultery|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006082800/http://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/inside.asp?xfile=%2Fdata%2Fcourtroundup%2F2013%2FSeptember%2Fcourtroundup_September33.xml§ion=courtroundup|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/courts/prison-for-couple-who-conceived-outside-of-wedlock|title=Prison for couple who conceived outside of wedlock|quote=KA, 19, Emirati, was sentenced to six months in prison. Her would-be husband, AM, Omani, was sentenced to 100 lashes and one year in prison.|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629150617/http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/courts/prison-for-couple-who-conceived-outside-of-wedlock|archive-date=2017-06-29|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/adulterer-to-be-lashed-jailed-in-sharjah-1.624274|title=Adulterer to be lashed, jailed in Sharjah|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131017232012/http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/adulterer-to-be-lashed-jailed-in-sharjah-1.624274|archive-date=2013-10-17|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/06/the-court-in-abu-dhabi-ruled-today-that-the-18-year-old-emirati-woman-who-accused-six-men-of-gang-rape-will-serve-a-one-year.html|title=DUBAI: Alleged victim of gang rape sentenced to one year in prison|quote=At that point, she was facing a penalty for extramarital sex, which is 100 lashes and a minimum of three years in prison.|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821161906/http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2010/06/the-court-in-abu-dhabi-ruled-today-that-the-18-year-old-emirati-woman-who-accused-six-men-of-gang-rape-will-serve-a-one-year.html|archive-date=2018-08-21|url-status=live|df=|date=17 June 2010}}</ref> Moreover, in 2010 and 2012, several Muslims were sentenced to 80 lashes for alcohol consumption.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/man-to-get-80-lashes-for-drinking-alcohol-1.585233|year=2010|title=Man to get 80 lashes for drinking alcohol|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100505090127/http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/crime/man-to-get-80-lashes-for-drinking-alcohol-1.585233|archive-date=2010-05-05|url-status=live|df=}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/courts/man-appeals-80-lashes-for-drinking-alcohol-in-abu-dhabi|year=2012|title=Man appeals 80 lashes for drinking alcohol in Abu Dhabi|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629144704/http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/courts/man-appeals-80-lashes-for-drinking-alcohol-in-abu-dhabi|archive-date=2017-06-29|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Under UAE law, premarital sex is punishable by 100 lashes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/woman-denies-affair-after-hearing-she-faces-stoning|title=Woman denies affair after hearing she faces stoning|quote=Under the same law, premarital sex is punishable by 100 lashes.|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629151050/http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/woman-denies-affair-after-hearing-she-faces-stoning|archive-date=2017-06-29|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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[[Stoning]] is a legal form of judicial punishment in UAE. In 2006, an [[Expatriates in the United Arab Emirates|expatriate]] was sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE25/005/2006/en|title=UAE: Death by stoning/ flogging|publisher=[[Amnesty]]|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006093215/http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE25/005/2006/en|archive-date=2014-10-06| |
[[Stoning]] is a legal form of judicial punishment in UAE. In 2006, an [[Expatriates in the United Arab Emirates|expatriate]] was sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE25/005/2006/en|title=UAE: Death by stoning/ flogging|publisher=[[Amnesty]]|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006093215/http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/MDE25/005/2006/en|archive-date=2014-10-06|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> Between 2009 and 2013, several people were sentenced to death by stoning.<ref name="khaleejtimes.com"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-man-faces-stoning-in-uae-for-incest-1090813|title=Man faces stoning in UAE for incest|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821191933/https://www.dnaindia.com/world/report-man-faces-stoning-in-uae-for-incest-1090813|archive-date=2018-08-21|url-status=live|df=|date=14 April 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/woman-denies-affair-after-hearing-she-faces-stoning|title=Woman denies affair after hearing she faces stoning|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629151050/http://www.thenational.ae/news/uae-news/woman-denies-affair-after-hearing-she-faces-stoning|archive-date=2017-06-29|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> In May 2014, an Asian housemaid was sentenced to death by stoning in [[Abu Dhabi]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://emirateswoman.com/2014/05/05/woman-sentenced-death-stoning-abu-dhabi/#.VB2jLPldVfA|title=Woman Sentenced to Death by Stoning in UAE|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150930135248/http://emirateswoman.com/2014/05/05/woman-sentenced-death-stoning-abu-dhabi/#.VB2jLPldVfA|archive-date=2015-09-30|url-status=live|df=|date=5 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.qatarliving.com/news/posts/asian-housemaid-gets-death-adultery-abu-dhabi|title=Asian housemaid gets death for adultery in Abu Dhabi|date=4 May 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://7daysindubai.com/expat-faces-death-stoning-admitting-court-cheating-husband/ |title=Expat faces death by stoning after admitting in court to cheating on husband |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141006154624/http://7daysindubai.com/expat-faces-death-stoning-admitting-court-cheating-husband/ |archive-date=6 October 2014 }}</ref> Islamic law dictates the [[Family law|personal status law]], which regulate matters such as marriage, divorce and child custody. The Sharia-based personal status law is applied to Muslims and sometimes non-Muslims.<ref name=lia/> |
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Non-Muslim expatriates are liable to Sharia rulings on marriage, divorce and child custody.<ref name=lia>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28638553|title=Britons 'liable to Sharia divorces' in UAE|publisher=BBC|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018115621/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28638553|archive-date=2017-10-18| |
Non-Muslim expatriates are liable to Sharia rulings on marriage, divorce and child custody.<ref name=lia>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28638553|title=Britons 'liable to Sharia divorces' in UAE|publisher=BBC|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171018115621/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28638553|archive-date=2017-10-18|url-status=live|df=|work=BBC News|date=5 August 2014|last1=Parmar|first1=Sheetal}}</ref> Sharia courts have exclusive jurisdiction to hear family disputes, including matters involving divorce, inheritances, child custody, child abuse and guardianship of minors. Sharia courts may also hear appeals of certain criminal cases including rape, robbery, and related crimes.<ref name="uae-court"/> |
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[[Apostasy]] is a crime [[punishable by death]] in the UAE. UAE incorporates [[hudud]] crimes of Sharia into its Penal Code – apostasy being one of them.<ref name=shar>Butti Sultan Butti Ali Al-Muhairi (1996), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3381546 The Islamisation of Laws in the UAE: The Case of the Penal Code] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519105215/http://www.jstor.org/stable/3381546 |date=2017-05-19 }}, Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1996), pp. 350–71</ref> Article 1 and Article 66 of UAE's Penal Code requires hudud crimes to be punished with the death penalty,<ref name=shar/><ref>Al-Muhairi (1997), Conclusion to the Series of Articles on the UAE Penal Law. Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4</ref> therefore apostasy is punishable by death in the UAE. Emirati women must receive permission from male guardian to remarry.<ref name=maleguardian>{{cite web |title=Divorcees, widows concerned about receiving 'permission' before remarrying |url=http://www.thenational.ae/uae/courts/divorcees-widows-concerned-about-receiving-permission-before-remarrying#ixzz3F1sb6IYa |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629144850/http://www.thenational.ae/uae/courts/divorcees-widows-concerned-about-receiving-permission-before-remarrying#ixzz3F1sb6IYa |archive-date=2017-06-29 | |
[[Apostasy]] is a crime [[punishable by death]] in the UAE. UAE incorporates [[hudud]] crimes of Sharia into its Penal Code – apostasy being one of them.<ref name=shar>Butti Sultan Butti Ali Al-Muhairi (1996), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/3381546 The Islamisation of Laws in the UAE: The Case of the Penal Code] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170519105215/http://www.jstor.org/stable/3381546 |date=2017-05-19 }}, Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1996), pp. 350–71</ref> Article 1 and Article 66 of UAE's Penal Code requires hudud crimes to be punished with the death penalty,<ref name=shar/><ref>Al-Muhairi (1997), Conclusion to the Series of Articles on the UAE Penal Law. Arab Law Quarterly, Vol. 12, No. 4</ref> therefore apostasy is punishable by death in the UAE. Emirati women must receive permission from male guardian to remarry.<ref name=maleguardian>{{cite web |title=Divorcees, widows concerned about receiving 'permission' before remarrying |url=http://www.thenational.ae/uae/courts/divorcees-widows-concerned-about-receiving-permission-before-remarrying#ixzz3F1sb6IYa |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629144850/http://www.thenational.ae/uae/courts/divorcees-widows-concerned-about-receiving-permission-before-remarrying#ixzz3F1sb6IYa |archive-date=2017-06-29 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> The requirement is derived from Sharia, and has been federal law since 2005.<ref name=maleguardian/> |
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Included in Federal law No. 28 is that men may unilaterally divorce their wives, however for a woman to get divorced she must apply for a court order. Women may also lose their right to maintenance is they refuse to have sexual relations with her husband without a lawful excuse. In 2010 the Federal Supreme Court provided an amendment to the law stating sanctioning the beating and punishment of women by men provided there is no physical mark left on the woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates|title=World Report 2017: Rights Trends in United Arab Emirates|last=Avenue|first=Human Rights Watch {{!}} 350 Fifth|last2=York|first2=34th Floor {{!}} New|date=2017-01-12|website=Human Rights Watch|language=en|access-date=2019-01-02|last3=t 1.212.290.4700|first3=NY 10118-3299 USA {{!}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117213001/https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates|archive-date=17 January 2019| |
Included in Federal law No. 28 is that men may unilaterally divorce their wives, however for a woman to get divorced she must apply for a court order. Women may also lose their right to maintenance is they refuse to have sexual relations with her husband without a lawful excuse. In 2010 the Federal Supreme Court provided an amendment to the law stating sanctioning the beating and punishment of women by men provided there is no physical mark left on the woman.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates|title=World Report 2017: Rights Trends in United Arab Emirates|last=Avenue|first=Human Rights Watch {{!}} 350 Fifth|last2=York|first2=34th Floor {{!}} New|date=2017-01-12|website=Human Rights Watch|language=en|access-date=2019-01-02|last3=t 1.212.290.4700|first3=NY 10118-3299 USA {{!}}|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190117213001/https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2017/country-chapters/united-arab-emirates|archive-date=17 January 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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In all emirates, it is illegal for Muslim women to marry non-Muslims.<ref name=religiousfreedom/> In the UAE, a marriage union between a Muslim woman and non-Muslim man is punishable by law, since it is considered a form of "[[fornication]]".<ref name=religiousfreedom>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127360.htm|title=United Arab Emirates|work=U.S. Department of State|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119170719/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127360.htm|archive-date=2012-01-19| |
In all emirates, it is illegal for Muslim women to marry non-Muslims.<ref name=religiousfreedom/> In the UAE, a marriage union between a Muslim woman and non-Muslim man is punishable by law, since it is considered a form of "[[fornication]]".<ref name=religiousfreedom>{{cite web|url=https://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127360.htm|title=United Arab Emirates|work=U.S. Department of State|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120119170719/http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2009/127360.htm|archive-date=2012-01-19|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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[[Dubai]] and [[Ras Al Khaimah]] are not part of the federal judicial system.<ref name="uae-court">{{cite web|title=The UAE Court System |url=http://dubai.usconsulate.gov/emergency_uae_court.html |publisher=Consulate General of the United States Dubai, UAE | |
[[Dubai]] and [[Ras Al Khaimah]] are not part of the federal judicial system.<ref name="uae-court">{{cite web|title=The UAE Court System |url=http://dubai.usconsulate.gov/emergency_uae_court.html |publisher=Consulate General of the United States Dubai, UAE |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151022020506/http://dubai.usconsulate.gov/emergency_uae_court.html |archive-date=22 October 2015 }}</ref> |
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In 2018, a British court recognized sharia law in a divorce ruling in 2018, noting that a Muslim couple married under sharia law will also be recognized under British law and that the woman may claim her share of assets in a divorce<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/01/british-court-recognises-sharia-law-landmark-divorce-case/|title=British court recognises sharia law in landmark divorce case|last=McCann|first=Kate|date=2018-08-01|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2019-01-02|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103004839/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/01/british-court-recognises-sharia-law-landmark-divorce-case/|archive-date=3 January 2019| |
In 2018, a British court recognized sharia law in a divorce ruling in 2018, noting that a Muslim couple married under sharia law will also be recognized under British law and that the woman may claim her share of assets in a divorce.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/01/british-court-recognises-sharia-law-landmark-divorce-case/|title=British court recognises sharia law in landmark divorce case|last=McCann|first=Kate|date=2018-08-01|work=The Telegraph|access-date=2019-01-02|language=en-GB|issn=0307-1235|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190103004839/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/08/01/british-court-recognises-sharia-law-landmark-divorce-case/|archive-date=3 January 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> |
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===Uzbekistan=== |
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It has a civil law system.<ref name=wf-legal/> |
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===Yemen=== |
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Law 20/1992 regulates personal status. The [[Constitution of Yemen|constitution]] mentions sharia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/yemen/islam-and-legal-system/islam-and-law-after-unification-debates-and-challenges |title=Islam and Law After Unification: Debates and Challenges |publisher=Islamopedia Online |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711051922/http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/yemen/islam-and-legal-system/islam-and-law-after-unification-debates-and-challenges |archive-date=11 July 2015 | |
Law 20/1992 regulates personal status. The [[Constitution of Yemen|constitution]] mentions sharia.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/yemen/islam-and-legal-system/islam-and-law-after-unification-debates-and-challenges |title=Islam and Law After Unification: Debates and Challenges |publisher=Islamopedia Online |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150711051922/http://www.islamopediaonline.org/country-profile/yemen/islam-and-legal-system/islam-and-law-after-unification-debates-and-challenges |archive-date=11 July 2015 |url-status=dead |df= }}</ref> Penal law provides for application of hadd penalties for certain crimes, although the extent of implementation is unclear.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/yemen.htm |title=Yemen, Republic of |publisher=Law.emory.edu |date= |accessdate=18 February 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130212064852/http://www.law.emory.edu/ifl/legal/yemen.htm |archive-date=2013-02-12 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> Article 263 of the 1994 penal code states that "the adulterer and adulteress without suspicion or coercion are punished with whipping by one hundred strokes as a penalty if not married. [...] If the adulterer or the adulteress are married, they are punished by stoning them to death."<ref>{{cite web|title=Republican Decree, By Law No. 12 for 1994, Concerning Crimes and Penalties|url=http://www.unhcr.org/refworld/docid/3fec62f17.html|publisher=UNHCR Refworld|accessdate=21 February 2013}}</ref> |
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Under certain conditions, Sharia rules on [[domestic relations]] are recognized by German courts based on [[conflict of marriage laws|private international law]] if no party has German citizenship. The outcome must not violate the principles of the German legal system according to the [[ordre public]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/daz/mag/igd/en9650179.htm |title=Sharia Courts in Western Democracies? – An Interview with Manfred Brocker |date=November 2012 |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004192955/http://www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/daz/mag/igd/en9650179.htm |archive-date=2018-10-04 | |
Under certain conditions, Sharia rules on [[domestic relations]] are recognized by German courts based on [[conflict of marriage laws|private international law]] if no party has German citizenship. The outcome must not violate the principles of the German legal system according to the [[ordre public]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/daz/mag/igd/en9650179.htm |title=Sharia Courts in Western Democracies? – An Interview with Manfred Brocker |date=November 2012 |access-date=2018-11-13 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181004192955/http://www.goethe.de/lhr/prj/daz/mag/igd/en9650179.htm |archive-date=2018-10-04 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref> |
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===Greece=== |
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In [[Western Thrace]], under the terms of the 1920 [[Treaty of Sevres]] and 1923 [[Treaty of Lausanne]], sharia courts historically had exclusive jurisdiction over the Muslim population in issues related to family law.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lecourrierdiplomatique.eu/2017/02/sharia-law-thrace/ |title=Sharia Law in Thrace |last=Macris |first=P.C. |work=Le Courrier Diplomatique |date=2017-02-18 |accessdate=2017-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201062025/http://www.lecourrierdiplomatique.eu/2017/02/sharia-law-thrace/ |archive-date=2017-12-01 | |
In [[Western Thrace]], under the terms of the 1920 [[Treaty of Sevres]] and 1923 [[Treaty of Lausanne]], sharia courts historically had exclusive jurisdiction over the Muslim population in issues related to family law.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lecourrierdiplomatique.eu/2017/02/sharia-law-thrace/ |title=Sharia Law in Thrace |last=Macris |first=P.C. |work=Le Courrier Diplomatique |date=2017-02-18 |accessdate=2017-11-30 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201062025/http://www.lecourrierdiplomatique.eu/2017/02/sharia-law-thrace/ |archive-date=2017-12-01 |url-status=live |df= }}</ref><ref name=stategreece>{{cite web|title=Greece|url=https://2009-2017.state.gov/documents/organization/171697.pdf|publisher=U.S. Department of State|accessdate=16 January 2015|pages=2–4|df=}}</ref> Since 2018, Muslims in the region have been given the choice of registering a civil marriage and pursuing civil cases in the national court system.<ref>{{cite news|title=Greece Scraps Compulsory Shariah for Muslim Minority|author=Niki Kitsantonis|newspaper=The New York Times|date=Jan 10, 2018|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/world/europe/greece-shariah-law.html|access-date=16 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190416212547/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/10/world/europe/greece-shariah-law.html|archive-date=16 April 2019|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name=stategreece/> The Treaty of Lausanne also allows for the establishment of [[waqf]]s.<ref name=stategreece/> |
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In other parts of Greece, all people are subjected exclusively to the provisions of the civil code, regardless of their religion.<ref name=acadgreece>{{cite web|last1=Kakoulidou|first1=Eirini|title=The application of Shari'ah in the Greek area of Western Thrace|url=https://www.academia.edu/3287627|publisher=Academia.edu|accessdate=16 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428075238/http://www.academia.edu/3287627/The_application_of_Shari_ah_in_the_Greek_area_of_Western_Thrace_Protecting_the_religious_freedom_of_the_Muslim_minority_or_dismantling_the_Greek_Constitution|archive-date=28 April 2015| |
In other parts of Greece, all people are subjected exclusively to the provisions of the civil code, regardless of their religion.<ref name=acadgreece>{{cite web|last1=Kakoulidou|first1=Eirini|title=The application of Shari'ah in the Greek area of Western Thrace|url=https://www.academia.edu/3287627|publisher=Academia.edu|accessdate=16 January 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150428075238/http://www.academia.edu/3287627/The_application_of_Shari_ah_in_the_Greek_area_of_Western_Thrace_Protecting_the_religious_freedom_of_the_Muslim_minority_or_dismantling_the_Greek_Constitution|archive-date=28 April 2015|url-status=dead|df=}}</ref> |
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===United Kingdom=== |
===United Kingdom=== |
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[[England and Wales]]: Sharia councils, which have no legal status and no legal jurisdiction, are consulted by many Muslims as a source of religious guidance and as an instance granting religious divorces.<ref>{{cite web|website=UK Government|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678478/6.4152_HO_CPFG_Report_into_Sharia_Law_in_the_UK_WEB.pdf|title=The independent review into the application of sharia law in England and Wales|year=2018|page=4|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002202500/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678478/6.4152_HO_CPFG_Report_into_Sharia_Law_in_the_UK_WEB.pdf|archive-date=2018-10-02| |
[[England and Wales]]: Sharia councils, which have no legal status and no legal jurisdiction, are consulted by many Muslims as a source of religious guidance and as an instance granting religious divorces.<ref>{{cite web|website=UK Government|url=https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678478/6.4152_HO_CPFG_Report_into_Sharia_Law_in_the_UK_WEB.pdf|title=The independent review into the application of sharia law in England and Wales|year=2018|page=4|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181002202500/https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/678478/6.4152_HO_CPFG_Report_into_Sharia_Law_in_the_UK_WEB.pdf|archive-date=2018-10-02|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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==Territories with limited recognition== |
==Territories with limited recognition== |
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===Palestine=== |
===Palestine=== |
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The Egyptian personal status law of 1954 is applied. The personal status law is based on Islamic law and regulates matters related to inheritance, marriage, divorce and child custody. Shari’a courts hear cases related to personal status. The testimony of a woman is worth only half of that of a man in cases related to marriage, divorce and child custody.<ref name="opt">{{cite web|title=Occupied Palestinian Territory Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/oPT-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620154451/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/oPT-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20| |
The Egyptian personal status law of 1954 is applied. The personal status law is based on Islamic law and regulates matters related to inheritance, marriage, divorce and child custody. Shari’a courts hear cases related to personal status. The testimony of a woman is worth only half of that of a man in cases related to marriage, divorce and child custody.<ref name="opt">{{cite web|title=Occupied Palestinian Territory Gender Equality Profile|url=http://www.unicef.org/gender/files/oPT-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|publisher=UNICEF|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620154451/https://www.unicef.org/gender/files/oPT-Gender-Eqaulity-Profile-2011.pdf|archive-date=2017-06-20|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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It has a secular legal system with heavy influence of modern-day Turkish laws. Info about whether civil or common law applies remains very vague.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/main/polsyst/constitution/|title=The Constitution of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus|work=cypnet.co.uk|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525163715/http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/main/polsyst/constitution/|archive-date=2011-05-25| |
It has a secular legal system with heavy influence of modern-day Turkish laws. Info about whether civil or common law applies remains very vague.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/main/polsyst/constitution/|title=The Constitution of the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus|work=cypnet.co.uk|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110525163715/http://www.cypnet.co.uk/ncyprus/main/polsyst/constitution/|archive-date=2011-05-25|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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Islamic and customary law apply.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.somalilandlaw.com/introduction_to_somaliland_law.html|title=Introduction to Somaliland Law|work=somalilandlaw.com|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427130121/http://www.somalilandlaw.com/introduction_to_somaliland_law.html|archive-date=2018-04-27| |
Islamic and customary law apply.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.somalilandlaw.com/introduction_to_somaliland_law.html|title=Introduction to Somaliland Law|work=somalilandlaw.com|access-date=2018-11-13|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180427130121/http://www.somalilandlaw.com/introduction_to_somaliland_law.html|archive-date=2018-04-27|url-status=live|df=}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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Revision as of 20:10, 18 September 2019
Since the early Islamic states of the eighth and ninth centuries, Islamic law (also known as sharia) always existed alongside other normative systems.[1]
Historically, sharia was interpreted by independent jurists (muftis), based on Islamic scriptural sources and various legal methodologies.[2] In the modern era, statutes inspired by European codes replaced traditional laws in most parts of the Muslim world, with classical sharia rules retained mainly in personal status (family) laws.[2][3] These laws were codified by legislative bodies which sought to modernize them without abandoning their foundations in traditional jurisprudence.[2][4] The Islamic revival of the late 20th century brought along calls by Islamist movements for full implementation of sharia, including hudud corporal punishments, such as stoning, which in some cases resulted in traditionalist legal reform.[2][4] Some countries with Muslim minorities use sharia-based laws to regulate marriage, inheritance and other personal affairs of their Muslim population.
Historical background
Sharia is a religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition.[5] Traditional theory of Islamic jurisprudence recognizes four sources of sharia: the Quran, sunnah (authentic hadith), qiyas (analogical reasoning), and ijma (juridical consensus).[6] Different legal schools—of which the most prominent are Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi'i, Hanbali and Jafari—developed methodologies for deriving sharia rulings from scriptural sources.[7][2] Traditional jurisprudence (fiqh) distinguishes two principal branches of law, ʿibādāt (rituals) and muʿāmalāt (social relations), which together comprise a wide range of topics.[7][8] Thus, some areas of sharia overlap with the Western notion of law while others correspond more broadly to living life in accordance with God’s will.[2]
Classical jurisprudence was elaborated by private religious scholars, largely through legal opinions (fatwas) issued by qualified jurists (muftis). It was historically applied in sharia courts by ruler-appointed judges, who dealt mainly with civil disputes and community affairs.[7][8] Sultanic courts, the police and market inspectors administered criminal justice, which was influenced by sharia but not bound by its rules.[9][8] Non-Muslim (dhimmi) communities had legal autonomy to adjudicate their internal affairs.[2] Over the centuries, Sunni muftis were gradually incorporated into state bureaucracies,[10] and fiqh was complemented by various economic, criminal and administrative laws issued by Muslim rulers.[11] The Ottoman civil code of 1869–1876 was the first partial attempt to codify sharia.[4]
In the modern era, traditional laws in the Muslim world have been widely replaced by statutes inspired by European models.[2][12] Judicial procedures and legal education were likewise brought in line with European practice.[2] While the constitutions of most Muslim-majority states contain references to sharia, its classical rules were largely retained only in personal status (family) laws.[2] Legislators who codified these laws sought to modernize them without abandoning their foundations in traditional jurisprudence.[2][4] The Islamic revival of the late 20th century brought along calls by Islamist movements for full implementation of sharia, including hudud corporal punishments, such as stoning. In some cases, this resulted in traditionalist legal reform, while other countries witnessed juridical reinterpretation of sharia advocated by progressive reformers.[2][4][13] While hudud punishments hold symbolic importance for their proponents and have attracted international attention, in countries where they make part of the legal system, they have been used infrequently or not at all, and their application has varied depending on local political climate.[2][14]
Some Muslim-minority countries recognize the use of sharia-based family laws for their Muslim populations.[15][16] The adoption and demand for sharia in the legal system of nations with significant Muslim-minorities is an active topic of international debate.[17] Reintroducing sharia in Muslim-majority nations has been described as "a longstanding goal for Islamist movements",[18] and attempts to introduce or expand sharia have been accompanied by controversy,[19] violence,[20] and even warfare.[21]
Types of legal systems
The legal systems of Muslim countries may be grouped as: mixed systems, classical sharia systems, and secular systems.[22]
Classical sharia systems
Under this system, shared by a small minority of modern countries, classical sharia is formally equated with national law and to a great extent provides its substance. The state has a ruler who functions as the highest judiciary and may promulgate and modify laws in some legal domains, but traditional religious scholars (ulama) play a decisive role in interpreting sharia. The classical sharia system is exemplified by Saudi Arabia and some other Gulf states. Iran shares many of the same features, but also possesses characteristics of mixed legal systems, such as a parliament and codified laws.[22]
Secular systems
Secular systems are those where sharia plays no role in the nation's legal system and religious interference in state affairs, politics, and law is not permitted. Turkey has been an example of a Muslim-majority nation with a secular system, although its secularism has recently come under intense pressure. Several states in West Africa and Central Asia also describe themselves as secular.[22]
Mixed systems
Most Muslim countries have mixed legal systems that postulate a constitution and Rule of Law, while also allowing rules of traditional Islamic jurisprudence to influence certain areas of national law. These systems possess large bodies of codified laws, which may be based on European or Indian codes. In these systems, the central legislative role is played by politicians and modern jurists rather than traditional religious scholars. Pakistan, Egypt, Malaysia, and Nigeria are examples of states having mixed systems.[22] Some countries with Muslim minorities, such as Israel, also have mixed systems that administer Islamic law for their Muslim population.[23]
Domains of application
Constitutional law
Most Muslim-majority countries incorporate sharia at some level in their legal framework. Their constitutions commonly refer to sharia as a source or the main source of law, though these references are not in themselves indicative of how much the legal system is influenced by sharia, and whether the influence has a traditionalist or modernist character.[2][8] The same constitutions usually also refer to universal principles such as democracy and human rights, leaving it up to legislators and the judiciary to work out how these norms are to be reconciled in practice.[24] Conversely, some countries (e.g., Algeria), whose constitution does not mention sharia, possess sharia-based family laws.[8] Nisrine Abiad identifies Bahrain, Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia as states with "strong constitutional consequences" of sharia "on the organization and functioning of power".[25]
Family law
Except for secular systems, Muslim-majority countries possess sharia-based family laws (marriage, inheritance, etc). These laws generally reflect influence of various modern-era reforms and tend to be characterized by ambiguity, with traditional and modernist interpretations often manifesting themselves in the same country, both in legislation and court decisions. In some countries (e.g., Nigeria), people can choose whether to pursue a case in a sharia or secular court.[24]
Criminal law
Countries in the Muslim world generally have criminal codes influenced by French law or common law, and in some cases a combination of Western legal traditions. Saudi Arabia has never adopted a criminal code and Saudi judges still follow traditional Hanbali jurisprudence. In the course of Islamization campaigns, several countries (Libya, Pakistan, Iran, Sudan, Mauritania, and Yemen) inserted Islamic criminal laws into their penal codes, which were otherwise based on Western models. In some countries only hudud penalties were added, while others also enacted provisions for qisas (law of retaliation) and diya (monetary compensation). Iran subsequently issued a new "Islamic Penal Code". The criminal codes of Afghanistan and United Arab Emirates contain a general provision that certain crimes are to be punished according to Islamic law, without specifying the penalties. Some Nigerian states have also enacted Islamic criminal laws. Laws in the Indonesian province of Aceh provide for application of discretionary (ta'zir) punishments for violation of Islamic norms, but explicitly exclude hudud and qisas.[26] Brunei has been implementing a "Sharia Penal Code", which includes provisions for stoning and amputation, in stages since 2014.[27][28] The countries where hudud penalties are legal do not use stoning and amputation routinely, and generally apply other punishments instead.[2][24][29]
Map

- Countries and members of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation where sharia plays no official role in the judicial system.
- Countries where sharia plays a role in adjudicating personal status issues (such as marriage, divorce, inheritance, and child custody).
- Countries where sharia plays a role in adjudicating personal status issues as well as criminal cases.
- Countries with regional variations in the application of sharia.
Africa
Algeria
Article 222 of the Family Code of 1984 specifies sharia as the residuary source of laws.[30] According to the U.S. State Department, the sharia-derived family code treats women as minors under the legal guardianship of a husband or male relative, though in practice the implied restrictions are not uniformly enforced.[31]
Benin
It has a civil law system with influences from customary law.[32]
Burkina Faso
It has a civil law system.[32]
Cameroon
It has a mixed legal system of English common law, French civil law, and customary law.[32]
Chad
After gaining independence from France, Chad retained the French legal system.[33]
Comoros
The legal system is based on both Sharia and remnants of the French legal code.[34] According to the article 229-7 of the Penal Code, any Muslim who makes use of products forbidden by Islamic law can be punished by imprisonment of up to six months.[35]
Cote d'Ivoire
It has a civil law system.[32]
Djibouti
The Family Code is mainly derived from Islamic law and regulates personal status matters such as marriage, divorce, child custody and inheritance.[36] Sharia does not apply to criminal law.[37]
Egypt
Article 2 of Egypt's 2014 Constitution declares the principles of Islamic sharia to be the main source of legislation.[38] Egypt's law and enforcement system are in flux since its 2011 Revolution;[39] however, the declaration of Sharia's primacy in Article 2 is a potential ground for unconstitutionality of any secular laws in Egyptian legal code.[40] Sharia courts and qadis are run and licensed by the Ministry of Justice.[41] The personal status law that regulates matters such as marriage, divorce and child custody is governed by sharia. In a family court, a woman’s testimony is worth half of a man’s testimony.[42]
Eritrea
Sharia courts entertain cases dealing with marriage, inheritance and family of Muslims.[43]
Ethiopia
Sharia courts have jurisdiction on cases regarding marriage, divorce, maintenance, guardianship of minors (only if both parties are Muslims). Also included are cases concerning waqfs, gifts, succession, or wills, provided that donor is a Muslim or deceased was a Muslim at time of death.[44]
Gabon
It has a mixed legal system of French civil law and customary law.[32]
The Gambia
Article 7 of the constitution identifies sharia as source of law in matters of personal status and inheritance among members of communities to which it applies.[45]
Ghana
Ghana is a secular state. Any other laws inconsistent with the national constitution are deemed null and void. No religious laws are applied in civil or criminal cases .[46]
Guinea-Bissau
It has a mixed legal system of civil law and customary law.[32]
Guinea
It has a civil law system.[47]
Kenya
Islamic law is applied by Kadhis' Courts where "all the parties profess the Muslim religion".[48] Under article 170, section 5 of the constitution, the jurisdiction of Kadhis’ court is limited to matters relating to "personal status, marriage, divorce or inheritance in proceedings in which all the parties profess the Muslim religion and submit to the jurisdiction of the Kadhi’s courts".[49]
Libya
Qaddafi merged civil and sharia courts in 1973. Civil courts now employ sharia judges who sit in regular courts of appeal and specialise in sharia appellate cases.[50] The personal status laws are derived from Islamic law.[51]
Mali
It has a civil law system influenced by customary law.[32] In urban areas, positive law is common. In rural areas the customary law usually dominates. Local rural versions of sharia are the predominant sources for customary law.[52] Article 25 in Title II of Mali's constitution declares it to be a secular state.[53]
Mauritania
The Penal Code contains Sharia crimes such as heresy, apostasy, atheism, refusal to pray, adultery and alcohol consumption. Punishments include lapidation, amputation and flagellation.[54]
Mauritius
Muslim Personal Laws apply to Muslims. Polygamy is legal but the government will not officially recognize a polygamous marriage.[55][56]
Morocco
In 1956, a Code of Personal Status (Mudawana) was issued, based on dominant Maliki school of Sharia jurisprudence. Regional Sharia courts also hear personal status cases on appeal.[57] In matters of family law, a woman’s testimony is worth only half of that of a man.[58] With 2003 reforms of its criminal law, Article 222 of its new criminal code is derived from Islamic law; Articles 220–221, 268–272 of its criminal law similarly codify those activities as crimes that are prohibited under Sharia.[59] Morocco adopted a new constitution in 2011; Article 41 of this constitution granted sole power to the Superior Council of the Ulemas to guide its laws through Fatwas from principles, precepts and designs of Islam.[60][61]
Mozambique
Paula Rainha states that, "Mozambique’s legal system can be considered civil law based (at least the formal legal system) and legislation is the primary source of law."[62]
Niger
It has not adopted any elements of Islamic law.[63]
Nigeria

Sharia states: Until 1999, Islamic law applied primarily to civil matters, but twelve of Nigeria’s thirty-six states have since extended Sharia to criminal matters.[64] Sharia courts can order amputations, and a few have been carried out.[65] The twelve sharia states are Zamfara, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Niger, Sokoto and Yobe.[66]
Borno, Gombe and Yobe have not yet begun to apply their Sharia Penal Codes.[67]
The rest of Nigeria has a mixed legal system of English common law and traditional law.[32]
Senegal
The legal system of Senegal is based on French civil law.[68] The 1972 Family Code (Code de la famille)[69] is secular in nature.[70] Islamic law is allowed by article 571 of the Family Code only in the case of intestate successions, and only if the person had demonstrated in life a wish that his succession would be regulated by Islamic law.[70] Most succession cases are decided under this provision.[71] There has been growing political attempts to introduce more sharia regulations.[72]
Sierra Leone
It has a common law system influenced by customary law.[32]
Somalia
Sharia was adopted in 2009.[73] Article 2 of Somali 2012 Constitution states no law can be enacted that is not compliant with the general principles and objectives of Sharia.[74][75] Sharia currently influences all aspects of Xeer as well as Somalia's formal legal system.[76]
Sudan
Sharia has been declared the chief source of all legislation in Sudan's 1968, 1973 and 1998 Constitutions.[77] In 2005, Sudan adopted an interim national constitution; it removed some references to Sharia, but included Sharia-derived criminal, civil and personal legal codes, as well as Sharia-mandated hudud punishments.[78] The Criminal Act of 1991 prescribes punishments which include forty lashes for drinking alcohol, amputation of the right hand for theft of a certain value and stoning for adultery.[79][80] However, there is no record of either any amputation or stoning ever having taken place in Sudan.[81]
Tanzania
Islamic law is applicable to Muslims under the Judicature and Applications of Laws Act, empowering courts to apply Islamic law to matters of succession in communities that generally follow Islamic law in matters of personal status and inheritance. Unlike mainland Tanzania, Zanzibar retains Islamic courts.[82]
Togo
It has a customary law system.[32]
Tunisia
Tunisia has a long secular tradition with a legal system based on French civil law. The Law of Personal Status, considered a reference in secular family law across the Arab world, bans polygamy and extrajudicial divorce. Sharia courts were abolished in 1956.[83][84] Secular inheritance laws are indirectly based on Islamic jurisprudence, with religion never being mentioned in the Code of Personal Status; these laws accord to women half the share of property due to men.[85]
Uganda
Article 129 (1) (d) of the constitution allows the parliament to establish by law "Qadhi’s courts for marriage, divorce, inheritance of property and guardianship".[86]
Americas
Canada
Sharia law is explicitly banned in Quebec, Canada, upheld by a unanimous vote against it in 2005 by the National Assembly of Quebec,[87] while the province of Ontario allows family law disputes to be arbitrated only under Ontario law.[88]
Guyana
The country has a common law system.[32]
Suriname
The country has a civil law system.[32]
United States
In the United States, various states have outlawed sharia, or passed some form of ballot measure which "prohibits the states courts from considering foreign, international or religious law." As of 2014[update] these include Alabama, Arizona, Kansas, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Dakota and Tennessee.[89]
Asia
Afghanistan
Criminal law in Afghanistan continues to be governed in large part by Islamic law. The 1976 Criminal Code introduced a quasi-secular system for all tazir offenses, but provided for application of hudud, qisas and diya according to the principles of Hanafi jurisprudence. In practice, as of 2003, the 1976 code was not widely applied, and virtually all courts, including the Supreme Court of Afghanistan, relied on Islamic law directly.[90]
Azerbaijan
The government is declared to be secular in the constitution.[47]
Bahrain
Article 2 of Bahrain's 2002 Constitution as originally adopted, as well as after February 2012 amendment, declares Islamic Sharia is a chief source of legislation.[91][92] Four tiers of ordinary courts have jurisdiction over cases related to civil, administrative and criminal matters, with Court of Cassation the highest civil court in Bahrain; in all matters, the judges are required to resort to Sharia in case legislation is silent or unclear.[92] Sharia courts handle personal status laws.[93][94]
A personal status law was codified in 2009 to regulate personal status matters. It applies only to Sunni Muslims; there is no codified personal status law for Shiites. In a Shari’a court a Muslim woman's testimony is worth half of that of a Muslim man.[95]
Bangladesh
Bangladesh has a secular constitution but Marriage, divorce, alimony and property inheritance are regulated by Sharia for Muslims.[96] The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act, 1937 (XXVI of 1937) applies to Muslims in all matters relating to Family Affairs.[97] Islamic family law is applied through the regular court system.[98] There are no limitations on interfaith marriages.[99]
Brunei
Sharia courts decide personal status cases or cases relating to religious offences.[100] Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah declared in 2011 his wish to establish Islamic criminal law as soon as possible.[101] A new penal code enacted in May 2014 will eventually prescribe sharia punishments, including the severing of limbs for property crimes and death by stoning for adultery and homosexuality.[102]
India
The Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Application Act 1937 directs the application of Muslim Personal Law to Muslims in a number of different areas, mainly related to family law.[103]
Indonesia
Aceh is the only part of Indonesia to apply Sharia to criminal law. Islamic courts in Aceh had long handled cases of marriage, divorce and inheritance. After special autonomy legislation was passed in 2001, the reach of courts extend to criminal justice.[104] Offences such as being alone with an unrelated member of the opposite gender, gambling and breaking Islamic dress rules can be punished with a public caning.[105] In 2014, the provincial government of Aceh extended sharia's reach, enacting and enforcing sharia to apply it to non-Muslims as well.[106][107]
In other parts of Indonesia, religious courts have jurisdiction over civil cases between Muslim spouses on matters concerning marriage, divorce, reconciliation, and alimony. The competence of religious courts is not exclusive, and parties can apply to District Courts for adjudication on basis of Roman Dutch law or local adat.[108][needs update] Suharto’s New Order expanded the reach of Islamic law, first with the 1974 Marriage Act, which assigned jurisdiction over the marriage and divorce of Muslims to the Islamic courts (Template:Lang-id), and with the 1989 Religious Judicature Act, which elevated Islamic courts by making them a parallel legal system, equal to state courts and gave them jurisdiction over inheritance (wasiyyah), gifts (hibah) and religious endowments.[109] Muslim litigants could originally choose whether to have inheritance questions decided by the Islamic courts or by the civil courts, but a 2006 amendment eliminated this possibility; the same amendment gave Islamic courts new jurisdiction over property disputes, including financial and economic matters.[109] Muslims seeking a divorce must also file their claim in Islamic courts.[109] The Compilation of Islamic Law 1991 (Template:Lang-id) regulates marriage, inheritance, and charitable trusts (wakaf).[109] Islamic law falls outside the jurisdiction of the Constitutional Court.[109] Since 2006, a number of districts have issued local ordinances based on sharia.[110]
Iran
Article 167 of the constitution states that all judicial rulings must be based upon "authoritative Islamic sources and authentic fatwa".[111] Book 2 of the Islamic Penal Code of Iran is entirely devoted to hudud punishments.[112] Iranian application of sharia has been seen by scholars as highly flexible and directly contradicting traditional interpretations of the sharia.[113]
Iraq
Article 1 of Civil Code identifies Islamic law as a main source of legislation.[114] The 1958 Code, made polygamy extremely difficult, granted child custody to the mother in case of divorce, prohibited repudiation and marriage under the age of 16.[115] In 1995, Iraq introduced Sharia punishment for certain types of criminal offenses.[116][clarification needed]
Iraq's legal system is based on French civil law as well as Sunni and Jafari (Shi’ite) interpretations of Sharia.[117] Article 41 of the constitution allows for personal status matters (such as marriage, divorce and inheritance) to be governed by the rules of each religious group. The article has not yet been put into effect, and a unified personal status law remains in place that builds on the 1959 personal status code.[118]
Israel
Islamic law is one of the sources of legislation for Muslim citizens.[119] Islamic law is binding on personal law issues for Muslim citizens.[119] The Sharia Courts of Israel arose as a continuation of the Ottoman sharia courts, whose jurisdiction was restricted under the British Mandate. The Sharia Courts operate under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice and adjudicate matters relating to marriages, divorce, financial maintenance, legal capacity and guardianship, custody of children, paternity, prevention of domestic violence, conversion to Islam, and inheritance, among others.[23]
Jordan
Jordan has Sharia courts and civil courts. Sharia courts have jurisdiction over personal status laws, cases concerning Diya (blood money in cases of crime where both parties are Muslims, or one is and both the Muslim and non-Muslim consent to Sharia court's jurisdiction), and matters pertaining to Islamic Waqfs.[120] The Family Law in force is the Personal Status Law of 1976, which is based on Islamic law .[115] In Sharia courts, the testimony of two women is equal to that of one man.[121]
Kazakhstan
Islamic law was in force up until early 1920.[122] The 1995 constitution is not based on sharia.[123]
Kuwait
Article 2 of Kuwait's constitution identifies Islamic Sharia as a main source of legislation.[91][124] According to the United Nations, Kuwait's legal system is a mix of British common law, French civil law, Egyptian civil law and Islamic law.[125] The sharia-based personal status law for Sunnis is based on the Maliki fiqh and for Shiites, their own school of Islam regulates personal status.[126][127] Before a family court the testimony of a woman is worth half of that of a man.[126] Kuwait blocks internet content prohibited by Sharia.[128]
Kyrgyzstan
It has a civil law system.[47]
Lebanon
Lebanon's legal system is based on a combination of Civil Law, Islamic law and Ottoman laws.[129] There are eighteen official religions in Lebanon, each with its own family law and religious courts. For the application of personal status laws, there are three separate sections: Sunni, Shia and non-Muslim. The Law of 16 July 1962 declares that Islamic law governs personal status laws of Muslims, with Sunni and Ja'afari Shia jurisdiction of Islamic law.[115]
Malaysia
Schedule 9 of Malaysian constitution recognizes Islamic law as a state subject; in other words, the states of Malaysia have the power to enact and enforce sharia.[130] Islamic criminal law statutes have been passed at the state level in Terengganu,[131] Kelantan[132] and Perlis,[133][page needed] but as of 2014 none of these laws have been implemented, as they contravene the Federal Constitution.[134][135][136]
In 2007, Malaysia's Federal court ruled that apostasy matter lay "within the exclusive jurisdiction of Sharia Courts".[130] Malaysian Muslims can be sentenced to caning for such offences as drinking beer,[137] and adultery.[138] Several sharia crimes, such as khalwat (close proximity of unmarried man and woman) are punishable only in Sharia courts of Malaysia. Publishing an Islamic book that is different from official Malaysian version, without permission, is a crime in some states. Other sharia-based criminal laws were enacted with "Syariah Criminal Offences (Federal Territory) Act of 1997".[130]
Muslims are bound by Sharia on personal matters, while members of other faiths follow civil law. Muslims are required to follow Islamic law in family, property and religious matters.[139] In 1988 the constitution was amended to state that civil courts cannot hear matters that fall within the jurisdiction of Sharia courts.[140]
Maldives
Article 15 of the Act Number 1/81 (Penal Code) allows for hudud punishments.[141] Article 156 of the constitution states that law includes the norms and provisions of sharia.[142]
Myanmar
In Myanmar, sharia has been applied for personal status issues since colonial times, under section 13 of Burma Law Act, 1898.[143] Court precedents also decided that Waqf matters are to be decided under Islamic law. The 1952 Myanmar Muslim Dissolution of Marriage Act states that a Muslim woman has the right to divorce her husband with appropriate cause.[143] Matters relating to sharia family law are decided by civil courts.[143]
Oman
Islamic Sharia is the basis for legislation in Oman per Article 2 of its Constitution, and promulgated as Sultani Decree 101/1996.[144] The Personal Statute (Family) Law issued by Royal Decree 97/32 codified provisions of Sharia.[145] Sharia Court Departments within the civil court system are responsible for personal status matters.[146] A 2008 law stipulates that the testimonies of men and women before a court are equal.[147]
Oman's criminal law is based on a combination of Sharia and English common law.[148] Omani commercial law is largely based on Sharia; Article 5 of its Law of Commerce defaults to primacy of Sharia in cases of confusion, silence or conflict.
Pakistan
Until 1978 Islamic law was largely restricted to personal status issues. Zia ul Haq introduced Sharia courts and made far reaching changes in the criminal justice system.[149] Articles 203a to 203j of the constitution establish a sharia court with the power to judge any law or government actions to be against Islam, and to review court cases for adherence to Islamic law.
The penal code includes elements of sharia.[150] Under article 5, section 2 of the Ordinance No. VII of 1979, whoever is guilty of zina, "if he or she is a muhsan, be stoned to death at a public place; or if he or she is not a muhsan, be punished, at a public place, with whipping numbering one hundred stripes".[151] Under a 2006 law, rape cases can be heard under civil as well as Islamic law.[152]
Philippines
There are sharia trial and circuit trial courts in Mindanao, which is home to the country's significant Filipino Muslim minority.[153] Sharia District Courts (SDCs) and Sharia Circuit Courts (SCCs) were created in 1977 through Presidential Decree 1083, which is also known as the Code of Muslim Personal Laws.[154] Islamic law only applies to civil cases involving all Muslims nationwide.
Cases are handled in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao and a couple of Mindanao provinces that are not part of ARMM by both sharia district and circuit courts, organised into five sharia districts. Outside these areas, sharia-related cases are processed in civil courts under a session from the five sharia districts.[155] All other cases, including criminal ones, are dealt with by local civil courts.[156]
Qatar
Sharia is the main source of Qatari legislation according to Qatar's Constitution.[157][158] Islamic law is applied to laws pertaining to family law, inheritance, and several criminal acts (including adultery, robbery and murder). In some cases in Sharia-based family courts, a female's testimony is worth half a man's and in some cases a female witness is not accepted at all.[159]
Flogging is used in Qatar as a punishment for alcohol consumption or illicit sexual relations.[160] Article 88 of Qatar's criminal code declares the punishment for adultery is 100 lashes.[161] Adultery is punishable by death when a Muslim woman and a non-Muslim man are involved.[161] In 2006, a Filipino woman was sentenced to 100 lashes for adultery.[161] In 2012, six expatriates were sentenced to floggings of either 40 or 100 lashes.[160] More recently in April 2013, a Muslim expatriate was sentenced to 40 lashes for alcohol consumption.[162][163][164] In June 2014, a Muslim expatriate was sentenced to 40 lashes for consuming alcohol and driving under the influence.[165]
Judicial corporal punishment is common in Qatar due to the Hanbali interpretation of Islamic law. Article 1 of the Law No. 11 Of 2004 (Penal Code) allows for the application of "Sharia provisions" for the crimes of theft, adultery, defamation, drinking alcohol and apostasy if either the suspect or the victim is a Muslim.[166]
Saudi Arabia
Saudi criminal law is based entirely on sharia.[167] No codified personal status law exists, which means that judges in courts rule based on their own interpretations of sharia.[168] See Legal system of Saudi Arabia
Singapore
Sharia courts may hear and determine actions in which all parties are Muslims or in which parties involved were married under Muslim law. Court has jurisdiction over cases related to marriage, divorce, betrothal, nullity of marriage, judicial separation, division of property on divorce, payment of dowry, maintenance, and muta.[169]
Sri Lanka
Private matters of Muslims are governed by Muslim Law, including marriage, divorce custody and maintenance. Muslim law principles have been codified in the Act No. 13 of 1951 Marriage and Divorce (Muslim) Act; Act No. 10 of 1931 Muslim Intestate Succession Ordinance and Act No. 51 of 1956 Muslim Mosques and Charitable Trusts or Wakfs Act.[170]
Syria
Article 3 of the 1973 Syrian constitution declares Islamic jurisprudence one of Syria's main sources of legislation.[171] The Personal Status Law 59 of 1953 (amended by Law 34 of 1975) is essentially a codified Islamic law.[172] The Code of Personal Status is applied to Muslims by Sharia courts.[173] In Sharia courts, a woman's testimony is worth only half of a man's.[174]
Tajikistan
The government is declared to be secular in the constitution.[47]
Thailand

In Yala, Narathiwat, Pattani and Songkhla provinces, Islamic law is allowed for settling family and inheritance issues under a 1946 law.[175]
The remaining provinces of Thailand have a civil law system with common law influences.[32]
Turkey
As part of Atatürk's Reforms, sharia was abolished in April 1924, with the Law Regarding the Abolition of Islamic Law Courts and Amendments Regarding the Court Organization.[176]
Turkmenistan
Article 11 of the constitution declares that religious groups are separate from the state and the state educational system. But the legal system is civil law with Islamic influences [177][178]
United Arab Emirates

The court system comprises Sharia courts and civil courts. Judicial corporal punishment is a legal form of punishment in UAE due to the Sharia courts. Flogging is used in UAE as a punishment for criminal offences such as adultery, premarital sex and prostitution.[179] In most emirates, floggings of Muslims are frequent, especially for adultery, prostitution and drunkenness, with sentences ranging from 80 to 200 lashes.[180][181] Between 2007 and 2013, many people were sentenced to 100 lashes.[179][182][183][184][185][186][187][188] Moreover, in 2010 and 2012, several Muslims were sentenced to 80 lashes for alcohol consumption.[189][190] Under UAE law, premarital sex is punishable by 100 lashes.[191]
Stoning is a legal form of judicial punishment in UAE. In 2006, an expatriate was sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery.[192] Between 2009 and 2013, several people were sentenced to death by stoning.[185][193][194] In May 2014, an Asian housemaid was sentenced to death by stoning in Abu Dhabi.[195][196][197] Islamic law dictates the personal status law, which regulate matters such as marriage, divorce and child custody. The Sharia-based personal status law is applied to Muslims and sometimes non-Muslims.[198]
Non-Muslim expatriates are liable to Sharia rulings on marriage, divorce and child custody.[198] Sharia courts have exclusive jurisdiction to hear family disputes, including matters involving divorce, inheritances, child custody, child abuse and guardianship of minors. Sharia courts may also hear appeals of certain criminal cases including rape, robbery, and related crimes.[199]
Apostasy is a crime punishable by death in the UAE. UAE incorporates hudud crimes of Sharia into its Penal Code – apostasy being one of them.[200] Article 1 and Article 66 of UAE's Penal Code requires hudud crimes to be punished with the death penalty,[200][201] therefore apostasy is punishable by death in the UAE. Emirati women must receive permission from male guardian to remarry.[202] The requirement is derived from Sharia, and has been federal law since 2005.[202]
Included in Federal law No. 28 is that men may unilaterally divorce their wives, however for a woman to get divorced she must apply for a court order. Women may also lose their right to maintenance is they refuse to have sexual relations with her husband without a lawful excuse. In 2010 the Federal Supreme Court provided an amendment to the law stating sanctioning the beating and punishment of women by men provided there is no physical mark left on the woman.[203]
In all emirates, it is illegal for Muslim women to marry non-Muslims.[204] In the UAE, a marriage union between a Muslim woman and non-Muslim man is punishable by law, since it is considered a form of "fornication".[204]
Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah are not part of the federal judicial system.[199]
In 2018, a British court recognized sharia law in a divorce ruling in 2018, noting that a Muslim couple married under sharia law will also be recognized under British law and that the woman may claim her share of assets in a divorce.[205]
Uzbekistan
It has a civil law system.[32]
Yemen
Law 20/1992 regulates personal status. The constitution mentions sharia.[206] Penal law provides for application of hadd penalties for certain crimes, although the extent of implementation is unclear.[207] Article 263 of the 1994 penal code states that "the adulterer and adulteress without suspicion or coercion are punished with whipping by one hundred strokes as a penalty if not married. [...] If the adulterer or the adulteress are married, they are punished by stoning them to death."[208]
Europe
Bosnia and Herzegovina
It has a civil law system.[32]
Germany
Under certain conditions, Sharia rules on domestic relations are recognized by German courts based on private international law if no party has German citizenship. The outcome must not violate the principles of the German legal system according to the ordre public.[209]
Greece
In Western Thrace, under the terms of the 1920 Treaty of Sevres and 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, sharia courts historically had exclusive jurisdiction over the Muslim population in issues related to family law.[210][211] Since 2018, Muslims in the region have been given the choice of registering a civil marriage and pursuing civil cases in the national court system.[212][211] The Treaty of Lausanne also allows for the establishment of waqfs.[211]
In other parts of Greece, all people are subjected exclusively to the provisions of the civil code, regardless of their religion.[213]
United Kingdom
England and Wales: Sharia councils, which have no legal status and no legal jurisdiction, are consulted by many Muslims as a source of religious guidance and as an instance granting religious divorces.[214]
Territories with limited recognition
Palestine
The Egyptian personal status law of 1954 is applied. The personal status law is based on Islamic law and regulates matters related to inheritance, marriage, divorce and child custody. Shari’a courts hear cases related to personal status. The testimony of a woman is worth only half of that of a man in cases related to marriage, divorce and child custody.[215]
Kosovo
Civil law system.[32]
Northern Cyprus
It has a secular legal system with heavy influence of modern-day Turkish laws. Info about whether civil or common law applies remains very vague.[216]
Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic
Local qadis (sharia judges) have jurisdiction over personal status and family law issues.[217]
Somaliland
Islamic and customary law apply.[218]
See also
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In Terengganu, where PAS took over the State government between 1999 and 2004, a hudud law was also passed.
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