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This is the decree promulgating the 1963 Moroccan Penal Code.

This decree declared that the Protectorate of Morocco government would recognize the ability for Berbers to retain their own laws and customs.

This section of al-Jarīda al-Rasmiyya officially promulgates the first two books of the Moroccan Personal Status Code, the Mudawwana. The first book presents the stipulations concerning marriage, including issues such as the contract, dowry, and inhibitors (like number of wives). The second book deals with the dissolution of marriage, thus addressing conditions of repudiation, women’s repudiation, and the ʿidda (the woman’s waiting period until she may remarry).

This is a memorandum (circulaire) issued by the shari'a board of the Central Bank of Morocco (Bank al-Maghrib) in January 2017. The document contains fatwas pertaining to Islamic financial instruments such as murābaḥa and regulations concerning its practice and penalties. 

This is the official decree promulgating the 1965 Moroccan Court Unification Law (Law 3.64)

Represents al-Andalus under Muslim rule in the 10th century CE.

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 ʿArafat is the location of the most important part of the Ḥajj pilgrimage, where pilgrims spend a day supplicating and praying to God.

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Biography of Mālikī jurist, theologian, and judge ʿIyāḍ b. Mūsā (476/1088–544/1149), known as al-Qāḍī ʿIyāḍ.

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Represents important locations of religious significance in the city of Mecca and locations important to the Ḥajj pilgrimage.

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The location visited by pilgrims during the Ḥajj where the Stoning of the Devil ritual takes place.

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This source is part of the Online Companion to the print edition al-Muwaṭṭaʾ, the Royal Moroccan Edition: The Recension of Yaḥyā Ibn Yaḥyā al-Laythī (Harvard Series in Islamic Law), edited and translated by Mohammad Fadel and Connell Monette (PIL/HUP, 2019).

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Represents important religious sites in the two most religiously significant cities of Islam, Mecca, where the Ḥajj pilgrimage is performed, and Medina, where the Prophet is buried and where Mālik taught the Muwaṭṭa’

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Represents the outlay of the city of Jerusalem (al-Quds) under the Umayyads, ʿAbbāsids, and Fāṭimids, including the Dome of the Rock, and important holy site in Islam.

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Represents North Africa under Muslim rule in the 8th century CE.

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Represents the extent of the ʿAbbāsid Caliphate.

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Represents the territory of the Umayyads and the Emirate in Spain, the time when the Mālikī school flourished and came to dominate in the region.

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Represents North Africa under Muslim rule in the 10th century CE, where the Mālikī school proliferated.

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Represents the extent of the Umayyads in Spain, under whom the Mālikī school came to flourish and dominate in the region.

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 Represents the extent of the Umayyad Caliphate between 622 and 750 CE.

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Biography of Mālikī jurist and theologian Abū ʿUmar Yūsuf b. ʿAbd Allāh b. Muḥammad b. ʿAbd al-Barr (368/978–463/1071), known as Ibn ʿAbd al-Barr.

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Biography of Mālikī jurist Yaḥyā b. Yaḥyā al-Laythī (152/769–234/848).

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Interactive map showing the geographical extent of the Ummayyad Caliphate, including significant urban centers from the Iberian Peninsula to the Arabian Peninsula. The map likewise indicates significant historical and religious sites in the Hejaz (modern-day Western Saudi Arabia, including Mecca and Medina), including battle sites like Badr and Khaybar as well as geographical demarcations of the Hajj such as Yalamlam and Dhãt al-'Irq.

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This is the official decree in which the Protectorate Morocco regime conferred limited property rights to the tribal councils (jama'as).

This is the official decree promulgating the 1962 Moroccan Constitution (Morocco's first constitution).

[Sharifian Decree of May 16, 1930] 919 Jarīda Rasmiyya 1322 (June 6, 1930): As the famous “Berber Decree,” this conferred official legitimacy to the Berber jamaʿas and their chiefs for civil matters (Article One), while Article Six notoriously called for all penal matters within Berber jurisdictions to be adjudicated in French courts. Although this Decree became renowned for the intense reaction it provoked in the nascent nationalist milieu, most of its stipulations (including Article Six) were never implemented.