Not Sunnis and not Shi’is, the Ibāḍī Muslims of Oman and some areas of North Africa form a “third branch” of Islam, with their own version of the Sharīʿa law. The development of this law displays many interconnections with the political history of the Ibāḍīs, which spanned from an independent sultanate in Oman, through minority status under Sunni rule in Tunisia and Libya, to isolated desert communities in Algerian Sahara. This article gives an overview over such interconnections between the political (state authority) and the legal, through history and in contemporary North Africa, with some examples of legal discussions from the “Ibāḍī renaissance” (nahḍa) in the twentieth-century Saharan oasis of Mzab. Ni suníes ni chiíes, los musulmane...
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With the 2004 reforms on the Moroccan Personal Status Law, the Moroccan Family Code (Mudawwanah) is ...
Starting from the second half of the last century, a great emphasis has been put on Shari’a as a ce...
La Ribera d’Ebre (Tarragona) es una de las comarcas conquistadas por el conde barcelonés Ramón Beren...
This paper aims at analyzing the role of the second Ibāḍī imām, Abū ‘Ubayda Muslim b. Abī Karīma al-...
International audienceThe first monograph devoted to the legal status of religious minorities status...
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This articles approaches the notion of an Islamic social contract from the perspective of the Berber...
In Africa slaves were thought as less than human and, even when they embraced Islam - Sunni and neve...
International audienceIn the last twenty years, the history of Ibadism has experienced real breakthr...
In spite of a long-standing interest in the Ibadi community and its historical, social, religious an...
The historiography of the early development of Islamic law, the Sharia, is highly contentious both a...
Medinan law is the model upon which the Maghribi courts built their legal systems. The purpose of t...
I intend to analyze the challenges that the presence of a hegemonic Christian power posed to Islamic...
Aborda o Direito Islâmico da Shari’a. Analisa as reformas legais modernas que alteraram a restrição ...
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