Tag: shariah
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Nation & World
Finding ‘a solution to closed doors’
A Harvard Divinity School panel explored the workings of Shariah law and the rights of women under its rules, in part through the eyes of its first female judge.
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Nation & World
A warning from inside Tunisia
A Tunisian constitutional expert said Sept. 17 that recent violence, coupled with moves by the ruling Islamist Ennahda party to enshrine religion in the nation’s new constitution, are a bad sign for a pluralistic, democratic future.
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Nation & World
The human side of Shariah
A scholar at Harvard Divinity School examines the humanity in the Islamic legal system of Shariah.
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Nation & World
Overseas, violence against women
In some Muslim societies, the tension between genders can lapse into violence. Some Radcliffe Fellows can tell that tale.