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Against his fellow Mâlikîs, whom he casts as sloppy in their juristic thinking, al-Qarâfî insisted that these phrases had absolutely no legal effect whatsoever today.

Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

Against his fellow Mâlikîs, whom he casts as sloppy in their juristic thinking, al-Qarâfî insisted that these phrases had absolutely no legal effect whatsoever today.

Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

Al-Qarâfî was himself a follower of the school of Mâlik.

Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

This kind of thinking takes me back to graduate school and an old friend of mine, a 13th century Egyptian jurist, Shihâb al-Dîn al-Qarâfî (on whom I wrote my dissertation).

Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

For example, Mâlik, who lived several centuries before al-Qarâfî, had indicated that certain phrases when uttered constituted a declaration of divorce.

Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

In this light, al-Qarâfî insisted, it was patently wrong to hold contemporary societies to conclusions reached by the jurists of the past contemplating the realities of the past.

Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010

Zio, an economics student at Qar Younis University in Benghazi, also was lying in a hospital bed, with a swollen face and his head and hands wrapped in white bandages.

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"It's hard to believe that these requirements were issued in our age," she told a mixed audience at Qar Younes University's school of medicine here, as students armed with hunting rifles and AK47s registered participants outside.

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Iraq is looking at the Balad air base in Salahaddin Province north of Baghdad and then the Ali air base in Nassiriya, Dhi Qar Province, in southern Iraq.

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Al-Qarâfî noted that the problem of taking sharia to be the equivalent of the contents of books was a problem even for trained jurists.

Sherman A. Jackson: Sharia in America: How Religious Laws Change Sherman A. Jackson 2010