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Full-Text Articles in Islamic Studies
Collaborative Constructions: Designing High School History Curriculum With The Lost & Found Game Series, Owen Gottlieb, Shawn Clybor
Collaborative Constructions: Designing High School History Curriculum With The Lost & Found Game Series, Owen Gottlieb, Shawn Clybor
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This chapter addresses design research and iterative curriculum design for the Lost & Found games series. The Lost & Found card-to-mobile series is set in Fustat (Old Cairo) in the twelfth century and focuses on religious laws of the period. The first two games focus on Moses Maimonides’ Mishneh Torah, a key Jewish law code. A new expansion module which was in development at the time of the fieldwork described in this article that introduces Islamic laws of the period, and a mobile prototype of the initial strategy game has been developed with support National Endowment for the Humanities. The …
Zinā In The Criminal Legislation Act (1999-2000): An Evaluation Of The Implication For Muslim Women's Right In Nigeria, Paul Orerhime Akpomie
Zinā In The Criminal Legislation Act (1999-2000): An Evaluation Of The Implication For Muslim Women's Right In Nigeria, Paul Orerhime Akpomie
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The research engages in an exploration of human rights in Islam. Human rights issues are then contrasted with international law positions. The data gotten is then used for investigating women’s human rights issues in Shariʾa penal tradition regarding zinā (adultery) in Nigeria. The re-emergence of Sharia penal codes adopted by 12 Northern states in Nigeria in 1999 as an operative Islamic law has sparked concerns about rulings amounting to stoning to death in several cases of zinā. These events raised concerns about Shariʾa penal traditions’ legality and relationship with other legal traditions operational in Nigeria, a secular political space. …
Punishment For Drinking Alcohol Between Islamic Sharia And Lebanese Law, Jaber Alhassan
Punishment For Drinking Alcohol Between Islamic Sharia And Lebanese Law, Jaber Alhassan
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This study aimed to find similarities and differences between Islamic law and Lebanese law regarding the penalty for drinking alcohol. To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher dealt with the topic of punishment, its concept, the concept of drunkenness, and the concept of drunkenness. The penalty for drinking it, and determining criminal responsibility in Sharia and Lebanese law. In this study, the researcher used the comparative descriptive inductive approach by referring to the original sources of Islamic law and books on positive law in general an
nd the Lebanese in particular, and some judicial rulings related to the …
Muslims In Prison: Advancing The Rule Of Law Through Litigation Praxis, Spearit
Muslims In Prison: Advancing The Rule Of Law Through Litigation Praxis, Spearit
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Islamic ideas about justice and equality directly informed the development of prison law jurisprudence in the United States. Since the early 1960s, when federal courts began to hear claims by state prisoner-petitioners, Muslims began to look to courts to establish Islam in prison and inaugurated an ongoing campaign for civil rights. The trend is significant when considering Muslims represent a relatively small percentage of the American population. Decades of persistent litigation by Muslims in courts have been integral to developing the prisoners’ rights movement in America. The Muslim impact on prison law and culture is an underappreciated phenomenon that involves …