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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. |