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Special Collections :: Country Profiles :: Dhū al-Ḥijja 1438 / September 2017
Nazow Tarakai
This Country Profile provides a basic overview of the legal history and institutional structures of the State of Kuwait (Dawlat al Kuwayt), based on research produced by GlobaLex at NYU Law School and the Library of Congress. Under Kuwait's Constitution, Islamic law (sharīʿa or fiqh) is a principle source of legislation.
Contemporary Primary Sources :: Constitutions :: 1412 / 1992
Kuwait, Posted by Bushra Hamid, 16 April 2017
Constitution for Kuwait in English, published with the permission of Constitute.
Special Collections :: 2 Shaʿbān 1438 / 27 April 2017
Nathan J. Brown, Posted by Sharon Tai, 02 May 2017
Religion appears in the constitutions of the Arab world, almost all with Muslim majorities, in a variety of ways. But aside from ensuring a public role for religion, these states are far from theocratic and show considerable though subtle diversity within them.
Contemporary Primary Sources :: Constitutions :: 1442 Jumādā II 1442 / 20 January 2021
Jason Golfinos
Original Arabic text of the 1962 Constitution of the State of Kuwait.
English translation of the 1962 Constitution of the State of Kuwait.
Original Arabic text of the 1992 Constitution of Kuwait (1962 Constitution of the State of Kuwait, as amended to and reinstated in 1992).
English translation of the 1992 Constitution of Kuwait (1962 Constitution of the State of Kuwait, as amended to and reinstated in 1992).
Contemporary Primary Sources :: 1418 / 1998
Kuwait Ministry of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs, Edited by Intisar Rabb, Posted by Intisar Rabb, 08 July 2022
The Mawsūʿa fiqhiyya [Encyclopedia of Islamic Law] (Kuwait 1998) documents several mainstream positions in classical Sunnī Islamic law on abortion.