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Hukm
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Hukm
In Islamic law, a judicial ruling or decision made by one with authority. The term's plural form, ahkam, refers more specifically to rules derived from fiqh, or Islamic jurisprudence.


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For example, the celebrated works of those Muslim scholars who are generally placed in the category of purely religious thought, esoteric or exoteric, like the Mathnawi of Maulana Rumi, the Ihya' of Imam Ghazali, and the Qawaa'id al Ahkam of 'Izz al-Din Al-Sulami contain significant and profound insights relevant to human society and its universal problems.
i (explaining that "[t]he first source of this code has been taken from Majallat Al Ahkam Al 'Adliyya, which was the Civil Code that was compiled for the Ottoman Empire").
3 BP134 The Ahkam, rule of life and action, surrounds the essence of knowledge in the Qur'an in a way that combines the moral and material worth and realization of life in an inseparable whole, explains Choudbury (economics, U.
 
 
 
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