This huge piece of legislation promulgated in September 1993 represents the culmination of a major project aimed at producing comprehensive unified regulation of all areas of commercial activity. In the introductory chapter to the law, which concerns its application, it is stipulated that commercial matters with regard to which specific federal laws are promulgated shall be subject to the provisions of these laws & to such provisions of the present law as do not conflict with them (Article 3). The main body of the law commences with definitions of what constitutes commercial activity: these persons who shall be deemed to be traders, & the conditions of eligibility to engage in trade. It sets out the requirements of accounting & record keeping which are obligatory for all traders. There is comprehensive legislation of a range of general commercial matters such as commercial houses, trade names, commercial data, commercial obligations & contracts, sale on deferred terms, sale at action, international sales, commercial pledges & deposits in public depositories. Following this there is detailed regulation of several of the most important specific areas of commercial activity including the different forms of commercial agency, commercial representation, brokerage & carriage of goods & persons. The large section of banking operations is systematic & exhaustive, as is the regulation of actions & transactions involving commercial & financial documents. The last section deals with bankruptcy, composition to avert bankruptcy, the procedures & administration of bankruptcy & its consequences. Article 196 states that the establishment of a Stock Exchange will be subject to the agreement of the Council of Ministers & promulgation of a Federal Law regulating the activity of the Exchange. The Law is presented in a comprehensive & consistent manner & is clear & accessible. An invaluable reference to all those who have business interests in or with the United Arab Emirates.
INTRODUCTION: METHODS OF DISSOLUTION Under the Sharia Law, marriage
may be dissolved, during the life-time of the parties thereto: (i) by the act of the
husband or wife (talaq); (ii) by mutual agreement (khula or mubaraat); or (iii) by a
judicial order of separation in a suit by the husband or the wife (tafriq).1 The most
common procedure has been the talaq, which is. 1 These are the forms of
dissolution of marriage that are recognized in the modern legislations on
personal status.
Ahmad Amin (1886-1954) was one of that remarkable cohort of Egyptian intellectuals all born a few years either side of 1890, a group whose prolific literary output largely defined and expressed the dominant liberal trend in Egyptian intellectual and cultural life in the period of the parliamentary monarchy from the 1920s through the 1940s. The autobiographical statements of two members of this group, Salamah Musa and Taha Husayn, have previously been made available in English translations. Now the reader unfamiliar with Arabic has an English version of Amin's autobiography to complement those of Musa and Husayn and to illuminate the cultural trends of a most important period of modern Egyptian and Arab history. -- from http://www.jstor.org (Dec. 10, 2013).
Meditation (al-fikra) is the voyage of the heart in the domains of alterities (
mayadin al-aghydr). 261. Meditation is the lamp of the heart (siraj al-qalb); so
when it goes away, the heart has no illumination. 262. Meditation is of two kinds:
the ...
297 and Supplement, II, 275, s.v. "fikra." 54 So Nykl. Some support is lent to this
translation of yu'-ida 'alaika by the last definition offered by Dozy in the
Supplement, II, 186, s.v. "'wd." But in Abbad., Dozy translates: "Why do sadness
and ...
