He hoped that the democracy which would one day emerge in Iran would be one based on Islamic ethics and spirituality.
It's based on the Islamic calendar, which is about 11 days shorter than the Gregorian calendar, which, B.T.W., is our calendar, which means that every year Ramadan begins 11 days earlier than the year before.
A statement signed by eleven rebel groups based largely in the north of the country – among them the al-Qa'ida-linked Jabhat al-Nusra – denounced the "unrepresentative" Syrian National Coalition (SNC) and called for the opposition to reorganise under "an Islamic framework based on sharia [Islamic law]".
He also maintained tight security over the areas he controlled and established a court system based on Sharīʿah (Islamic law).
Saudi Arabia's justice system is based on Sharia Islamic law and its judges are clerics from the kingdom's ultra conservative Wahhabi school of Sunni Islam.
The challenge, he said, is to end the conflict before "the opportunity to create a system of governance not based on militant Islamic law is lost".
Afghani argued that Muslims needed a new interpretation of the Koran suited to modern times, and he sought to impose limits on the powers of Muslim rulers with constitutions based on updated Islamic principles.
The ancient Babylonians had developed complex mathematical techniques to record the stars, the Greeks systemised the organisation of knowledge based on logic, Islamic scholars wrote astronomical and medical texts and Chinese inventors recorded recipes for gunpowder.
Swedish politicians don't like the idea that their courts would be asked to enforce marriage laws based on, say, Islamic sharia.The threat of vetoes from Sweden and like-minded countries has blocked Rome III.
The principal Islamist militia, known as Ansar Dine, or Defenders of the Faith, has imposed harsh Shariah law based on strict Islamic tenets and enforced it with public killings, stonings and amputations.
