Islamic Law and the State
The concepts of sovereignty and legal personality in Islamic Law and Western Law are fundamentally different. Under Islamic law sovereignty belongs to Allah and the ruler is the agent of the Ummah. His function is to implement, rather than make the law. Western law assigns sovereignty to the state....
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Language: | en_ca |
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2011
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1807/31429 |