Meanings of sharia courts in English

It follows Ukip's decision to campaign on banning the full-face veil and sharia courts.

Here, clerics apply their own interpretation of Islamic law at sharia courts independent of the state.

The government had hoped that meeting demands for sharia courts would quieten the militants in Swat.

Government officials say they will appoint judges for sharia courts but Mohammad has to deliver on this first.

Al Shabaab grew out of the armed wing of the sharia courts movement but later split with Ahmed.

Aweys founded the al Shabaab, a militant Islamist group and the armed wing of the sharia courts movement.

The Ethiopians entered Somalia to chase a sharia courts movement out of Mogadishu at the end of 2006.

He said the move was made on the grounds that sharia courts of appeal do not have criminal jurisdiction.

In Syria its secret prisons, sharia courts, executions and assassinations of other rebels have provoked the recent powerful backlash.

Ahmed is a moderate Islamist who used to run a sharia courts movement whose fighting wing was al Shabaab.

The report said that Isis's sharia courts in Mosul had also meted out cruel punishments including stoning and amputation.

Aweys moved to Eritrea after Ethiopian forces chased his sharia courts group out of Mogadishu at the start of 2007.

The party said it would explicitly ban sharia law and establish a legal commission to examine the dismantling of sharia courts.

The Lord Chief Justice, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, emphatically ruled out the possibility of sharia courts sitting or deciding penalties.

Certain things happen in sharia courts which do go against the spirit of our laws. Whittle denied that his comments were anti-Islamic.

Although Ahmed is a moderate Islamist who used to lead a sharia courts movement in Somalia, al Shabaab denounces him as anti-Islamic.