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The Shari'ah: Misreadings And Misinterpretations, Abdulmajeed Bolade Bello Dr.
The Shari'ah: Misreadings And Misinterpretations, Abdulmajeed Bolade Bello Dr.
abdulmajeed bolade bello dr.
Almost the whole of the present Northern Nigeria was firmly entrenched in the Sokoto Caliphate and Shari'ah in its totality was the applicable law in all courts. Through hundred of years of application, the Shari'ah supplanted the customary rules of part of Nigeria. The paper argues that if Shari'ah is a body of laws which Allah prescribed for His servants and explained by Muhammad, the Shari'ah is the life of Islam itself. And under democratic constitution, Shari'ah is both human and religious right of Muslim in the society. Paper shows that the Shari'ah govern the entire life of all Muslims, …
The Reopening Of The Islamic Code: The Second Era Of Ijtihad, Ali Khan
The Reopening Of The Islamic Code: The Second Era Of Ijtihad, Ali Khan
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Resisting radical proposals for change, most Muslim communities are refusing to discard the entire past.Although some Islamic regimes have experimented with secularism - and Turkey has officially adopted non-amendable constitutional secularism - most Islamic nations reject the secular model of law under which legislative authority is reposed in institutions divorced from religion and law is separated from the principles of the Quran and the Sunna - the Basic Code. Mainstream Muslim scholars and jurists from across the world seem to have reached a near-consensus that, although the Basic Code cannot be abandoned, it must be re-interpreted to establish legal systems …