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beyond sharia law". Mail & Guardian. 9 July 2009. Retrieved 9 January 2016. "Women's Legal Trust v President of the Republic of South Africa and Others...

Sharia means Islamic law based on Islamic concepts based from Quran and Hadith. Since the early Islamic states of the eighth and ninth centuries, Sharia...

Sharia, Sharī'ah, Shari'a, Shariah or Syariah (Arabic: شريعة, lit. 'path (to water)') is a body of religious law that forms a part of the Islamic tradition...

The applicability of Sharia law was restricted in 2018, when a law was passed eliminating the mandatory enforcement of the Sharia Law, and limiting its powers...

In Islam, human sexuality is governed by Islamic law, also known as Sharia. Accordingly, sexual violation is regarded as a violation of moral and divine...

Africa's fifty-six sovereign states range widely in their history and structure, and their laws are variously defined by customary law, religious law...

states in Africa, claims Sharia as the main source of its legislation, yet its penal and civil codes are based largely on French law. Muslims in Africa mostly...

by the law only if sold to persons over the age of 18 in registered stores. It is an offense to host a pornographic web site in South Africa because...

Abidin that include Sharia or Islamic law courses as requirements for admission and graduation. Malaysian law graduates from universities in the UK, Australia...

other Africa countries where Sharia courts exist to handle the personal laws of the Muslim population. In terms of gender equality, sharia law has a different...

grounds of being "mentally unfit" (an exemption from execution under sharia law) to stand trial by the Afghan court after intervention by the president...

marriages. The Supreme Court also ruled that Muslim marriages performed under Sharia law are valid. Sudan Togo Tanzania Uganda Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic...

supreme law of the country. There are four distinct legal systems in Nigeria, which include English law, Common law, Customary law, and Sharia Law. English...

an accused or force them into exile. The accused in Yemen is subject to Islamic law (Sharia). Sharia, according to some interpretations, prescribes death...

compensation in Islamic law) and spare the life of the accused. If this was rejected an execution would be carried out. By early 2001, the Duduble run Sharia courts...

women in law and in practice states that: "Adultery as a criminal offence violates women’s human rights". In Muslim countries that follow Sharia law for...

21st century, still in use in some religious communities. Sharia law based on Islamic principles is used as the primary legal system in several countries...

equivalent to monogamous marriages. All twelve states are governed by Sharia law. The states, which are all northern, include the states of Bauchi, Borno...

Jamaat is a hub in South Africa that spreads throughout South and East Africa. Graduates of South African madrassas spend their time in the path of the...

Nigeria is governed under Sharia law, while the rest of the country is governed under secular law. Merchants from North Africa and the Senegalese basin...