Search results for "Canon Law" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Witnesses consider the entire Biblical canon, excluding the Apocrypha ... do not violate what they view as God's law. The Jehovah's Witnesses ...
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  • in 1973, Zahir Shah's brother-in-law, Sardar Daoud Khan launched ... a strict interpretation of Islamic Sharia law and were later implicated ...
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  • aspect of Islam. It informs Muslim conduct, law, faith and practice across ... Although the Qur’an is the primary source of Islamic Law, there ...
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  • Sri Lanka) and taking copies of the Pali canon of Buddhist scripture (the ... Wildlife became protected by the king's law against sport hunting and ...
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  • are illegal and punishable according to the law.” Halliday 1979, 47. ... especially considering that under the 1917 Code of Canon Law a Roman ...
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  • discovering, sexual as well as financial. A law that Parliament enacted in ... In April 1539, a new Parliament passed a law giving the King the rest of ...
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  • Prophets” (Qur’an 33: 40) based on the canon. However, there have been ... caliphs, was an Islamic state in that the law of the land was the sharia ...
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  • and is an important part of the Hindu canon (smṛti). The name Rāmāyaṇa ... duty towards his brother and his sister-in-law while in exile. An infuriated ...
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  • The Alexandrian Canon compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus ... Between 354 B.C.E. and 350 B.C.E., Demosthenes continued practicing ...
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  • On April 7, 1990, the Soviet Union passed a law allowing republics ... legal system is an evolution of Soviet civil law. Defendants are seldom acquitted ...
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  • of the curriculum and the replacement of the "canon" with inferior material. They believe that self-confidence arises not from removing hurdles ...
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  • entitled to the full protection of the law in a city-state. In most city ... "customary distribution," "law"); to nomizein, the gods ...
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  • For instance, from the Pali Canon, see MN 44 [https://www.accesstoinsight ... :Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate ...
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  • Muktika – the final Upanisad of the Hindu canon of 108 texts, cataloging ... exception of his daughter and son-in-law. Sati was unable to bear her ...
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  • (2000) states that ibn Muadh applied “the law of Moses to the followers ... According to Shi'a Islam, Muhammad had appointed his son-in-law ...
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  • have an equal right, an equal claim under law to their own persons and property ... . Kimberle Crenshaw, prominent feminist law theorist, gave the idea a ...
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  • World; Harold Bloom's The Western Canon; Columbia College Core Curriculum. ... was a more powerful force than the law, due to emphasis that conscience ...
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  • form of Urdu was the lingua franca of the law courts of the British administration ... Fārūqī. Āb-e hayāt Shaping the Canon of Urdu Poetry. New Delhi: ...
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  • believe that the Torah ("Divine Law") contains deeper, hidden ... to the full body of Judaism's oral law. Over time, much of the oral ...
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  • are the Proselytes, Godfearers, and Noahide Law; see also Biblical law in ... fathers and the councils and even the canon law of the Church of Rome. ...
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