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Jordan has Sharia courts and civil courts. Sharia courts have jurisdiction over personal status laws, cases concerning Diya (blood money in cases of crime where both parties are Muslims, or one is and both the Muslim and non-Muslim consent to Sharia court's jurisdiction), and matters pertaining to Islamic Waqfs. [122]
The Shari'a courts of the West Bank and the Jordanian-administered Shari'a court in East Jerusalem are governed under Jordanian law, especially the Law of Shar'i Procedure of 1959. Included within the Shari'a courts jurisdiction are waqf (religious endowments), family law, personal status issues, and petitions for diya (monetary damages for ...
Islamic court or Islamic courts may refer to: Islamic court, a court that follows Sharia. Sharia courts, in the judiciary of Saudi Arabia; Syariah Court, in Malaysia; Islamic Revolutionary Court, a special system of courts in the Islamic Republic of Iran; Islamic Courts Union, in Somalia
On January 20, 2006, a Shari'a court received an apostasy complaint against Mahmoud Abdel Rahman Mohammad Eleker, a convert from Islam to Christianity. On April 14, 2006, the complainant, the convert's brother-in-law, dropped the charges after the convert's wife renounced in the presence of a lawyer any claims she might have to an inheritance ...
The politics of Jordan takes place in a framework of a parliamentary monarchy, whereby the Prime Minister of Jordan is head of government, and of a multi-party system.Jordan is a constitutional monarchy based on the constitution promulgated on January 8, 1952.
The Palace of Justice (Arabic: قصر العدل, romanized: Qasr al-Adl) is a significant judicial building located in Amman, the capital city of Jordan.This prominent structure serves as the primary headquarters for the judiciary in Amman and houses various courts and legal departments.
Jordan has no apostasy law but the petitioners sought that she be declared an apostate, and divorced from her husband. The court eventually ruled that it had no jurisdiction in the matter. On appeal in 1990, the sharia court of appeal, which had agreed to hear the section of the petition relating to divorce on the grounds of alleged apostasy ...
The dhimmi communities living in Islamic states usually had their own laws independent from the Sharia law, such as the Jews who had their own Halakha courts. [ 131 ] Dhimmis were allowed to operate their own courts following their own legal systems.