The town has been in control of Islamic courts since early 2006.

This is in an effort to respond to the Islamic courts.

They have created a system of street justice, complete with underground Islamic courts.

Not all of the new local laws are enforced by special Islamic courts.

The paper contained the charges and sentence of an Islamic court.

"We support the Islamic courts because they support peace," he said.

Islamic courts enforce sharia law in certain areas of responsibility.

She, too, had disappeared in the revolution, condemned by an Islamic court for adultery, which left only the son.

He has close ties to the Islamic courts - with their own police and jails - that were established in recent years.

A qadi is a judge in an Islamic court.