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Islamic Law And American Law: Between Concordance And Dissonance, Mohammed Fadel Jan 2013

Islamic Law And American Law: Between Concordance And Dissonance, Mohammed Fadel

NYLS Law Review

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Torture And Islamic Law, Sadiq Reza Jan 2007

Torture And Islamic Law, Sadiq Reza

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This article considers the relationship between Islamic law and the absence or practice of investigative torture in the countries of today's Muslim world. Torture is forbidden in the constitutions, statutes, and treaties of most Muslim-majority countries, but a number of these countries are regularly named among those in which torture is practiced with apparent impunity. Among these countries are several that profess a commitment to Islamic law as a source of national law, including some that identify Islamic law as the principal source of law and some that go so far as to declare themselves "Islamic states." The status of …


Headscarves In German Public Schools: Religious Minorities Are Welcome In Germany, Unless — God Forbid — They Are Religious, Ruben Seth Fogel Jan 2006

Headscarves In German Public Schools: Religious Minorities Are Welcome In Germany, Unless — God Forbid — They Are Religious, Ruben Seth Fogel

NYLS Law Review

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