Islamic Courts Union

Target entity: Islamic Courts Union
Context triple: [Somali Civil War, hasParticipant, Islamic Courts Union]

• A. Muslim Judicial Council
  The Muslim Judicial Council is a prominent South African Islamic religious authority that provides leadership, guidance, and representation for Muslim communities in the country.
• B. International Islamic Fiqh Academy
  The International Islamic Fiqh Academy is a leading scholarly body that issues collective Islamic legal opinions and guidance on contemporary issues for member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
• C. Supreme Muslim Council
  The Supreme Muslim Council was a leading religious and political body in Mandatory Palestine that played a central role in organizing and representing Palestinian Muslim interests during the early 20th-century national movement.
• D. Ijma
  Ijma is an Islamic legal principle referring to the consensus of qualified scholars on a religious or legal issue, serving as a source of Sharia alongside the Quran and Sunnah.
• E. Ahmadiyya
  Ahmadiyya is an Islamic reformist movement founded in British India in the late 19th century that emphasizes peaceful propagation of Islam, rejection of violent jihad, and belief in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as the promised messiah and mahdi.
• F. None of above. chosen
• G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.

Target entity: Islamic Courts Union
Target entity description: The Islamic Courts Union was a coalition of Islamist sharia courts that emerged as a powerful political and military force in Somalia in the mid-2000s, briefly controlling much of the country including the capital, Mogadishu.

• A. Muslim Judicial Council
  The Muslim Judicial Council is a prominent South African Islamic religious authority that provides leadership, guidance, and representation for Muslim communities in the country.
• B. International Islamic Fiqh Academy
  The International Islamic Fiqh Academy is a leading scholarly body that issues collective Islamic legal opinions and guidance on contemporary issues for member states of the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.
• C. Supreme Muslim Council
  The Supreme Muslim Council was a leading religious and political body in Mandatory Palestine that played a central role in organizing and representing Palestinian Muslim interests during the early 20th-century national movement.
• D. Ijma
  Ijma is an Islamic legal principle referring to the consensus of qualified scholars on a religious or legal issue, serving as a source of Sharia alongside the Quran and Sunnah.
• E. Ahmadiyya
  Ahmadiyya is an Islamic reformist movement founded in British India in the late 19th century that emphasizes peaceful propagation of Islam, rejection of violent jihad, and belief in Mirza Ghulam Ahmad as the promised messiah and mahdi.
• F. None of above. chosen