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Title:The Sharia according to Nimeiri
Author:Anonymous
Year:1985
Periodical:Horn of Africa
Volume:8
Issue:1
Pages:32-38
Language:English
Geographic term:Sudan
Subjects:Islamic law
criminal law
Religion and Witchcraft
Law, Human Rights and Violence
Politics and Government
Shari'a
Abstract:Abridged translation of one of ex-President Nimeiri's recent addresses - originally in Arabic - delivered during the First International Islamic Conference, held in the Sudan in October 1984. Comments by President Nimeiri and by Hassan al Turabi, presidential adviser and a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, on amputations and the sharia, made in interviews recorded in the Sudan in mid-1984 by a Thames television team from London, have been included in a box. A memorandum to Nimeiri soon after the proclamation of 'Sharia', written by the African Nationalists' Front, a Southern student organisation at the University of Khartoum, expressing outrage at any possibility of Islamic laws being imposed on nonMuslims, is reproduced on p. 61-63, and on p. 64-66 a pastoral letter from Archbishop Gabriel Zubeir Wako to all the Christian faithful in the Archdiocese of Khartoum, 'On the new penal code'. Finally, on p. 67-71, a copy of a penal code promulgated by the Sudan People's Liberation Army in 1983 and intended to be applied not only to their own forces but in all anticipated 'liberated' areas.
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