Charters and law books of Muslim, African and steppe states: the Constitution of Medina, the Mughal Fatawa Alamgiri, the Ethiopian Fetha Negest, the Kouroukan Fouga of Mali and the Mongol Yassa and Kazakh Zheti Zhargy. A document belongs here when its cited article describes a charter or law book of these regions. It excludes East Asian and European sources. The group is deliberately regional and mixed, because each of these texts would be the only member of a group of its own.
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Constitution of Medina (Wikipedia)
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The Mithaq al-Madina or the Constitution of Medina or the Charter of Medina (Arabic: وثيقة المدينة, romanized: Waṯīqat al-Madīna; or صحیفة المدينة, Ṣaḥīfat al-Madīna; also known as the "Umma Document"), is a constitution that governed the affairs of Medina which formed the basis of the First Islamic State, a multi-religious polity under the Prophet Muhammad's leadership.
Fatawa 'Alamgiri (Wikipedia)
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Fatawa 'Alamgiri, also called Al-Fatawa al-Hindiyyah (Arabic: الفتاوى الهندية; lit.
Fetha Negest (Wikipedia)
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The Fetha Negest (Ge'ez: ፍትሐ ነገሥት, romanized: fətḥa nägäśt, lit.
Kouroukan Fouga (Wikipedia)
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Kouroukan Fouga, or Kurukan Fuga, was the constitution of the Mali Empire created after the Battle of Krina (1235) by an assembly of nobles to create a government for the newly established empire, according to the Epic of Sundiata.
Yassa - Wikipedia
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The Yassa (alternatively Yasa, Yasaq, Jazag or Zasag; Mongolian: Их Засаг, romanized: Ikh Zasag) was the oral law code of the Mongols, gradually built up through the reign of Genghis Khan.
Zheti Zhargy (Wikipedia)
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The Zheti Zhargy (also transliterated as "Jeti Jarği", Kazakh: "Жеті Жарғы", lit. "Seven Charters") was the set of laws introduced in the Kazakh Khanate by Tauke Khan c. 1680-1718.
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