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Al-Islam.Org: Digital Islamic Library

Al-Islam.Org is a special project of the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islamic Library Project (DILP). It aims to digitise and present on the Internet quality Islamic resources, related to the history, law, religious practice, and society of the Islamic religion and the Muslim peoples with particular emphasis on Twelver Shia Islamic school of thought. It is divided into a number of subject areas where users can find links to articles, papers, presentations and reports. Topics of interest to social scientists include: Islamic law, Islamic philosophy and Islam and politics.

Association of Muslim Lawyers

Website of the Association of Muslim Lawyers (AML), a United Kingdom based organisation concerned with issues relating to Muslims in the UK and internationally. The site introduces the aims and objects of the AML and gives details of the Executive Committee and events organised by the Association. The AML journal 'The Muslim Lawyer' is published occasionally and can be viewed on the site back to 1998. The site also includes a page of links to related organisations.

Understanding Islam

Website of the organisation Understanding Islam which aims to explain the principles of Islam, provide background information and answers to questions and criticisms. The site includes questions and answers, articles and discussions arranged into subject headings such as social issues, political issues, penal law, sources of Islam and the Qur'an. Within these sections there are discussions of the law relating to marriage, divorce, children and inheritance citing the Qur'an and Sunnah (example set by the prophet Mohammed) as sources of Islamic law.

Islamic Family Law Project

The Islamic Family Law Project website is based at Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia. The Project surveyed the application of Islamic family law in a selection of countries and explored the possibilities for reform. A regional breakdown of Islamic countries around the world is given on the site, with a profile of each region consisting of historical and religious background, family issues, legal practices and institutions and a list of references.

Researching Islamic law: Malaysian sources

Online guide to Islamic law in Malaysia, by Shaikh Mohamed Noordin, a law librarian based in Kuala Lumpur. The guide was published in 2009 (and updated in 2021) on New York University's Globalex website. It covers the establishment of Islamic law in Malaysia and the Islamic law tradition. There is a section on sources of Islamic law and examples of Malaysian legislation, focusing on Islamic family law, procedural law, criminal law and financial law.

Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999-2006: A Sourcebook

Web version of "Sharia Implementation in Northern Nigeria 1999-2006: A Sourcebook", by Philip Ostien. The book was published by Spectrum Books in 2007 and provided here on the website of the University of Bayreuth in Germany. The book is arranged into five volumes with the following headings: historical background; Sharia Implementation Committee reports and related white papers; sanitizing society; Sharia penal and criminal procedure codes and two famous cases. Each section is subdivided into chapters.

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