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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 Union of the Comoros (Udzima wa Komori (Comorian); Union des Comores (French); Jumhuriyat al Qamar al Muttahidah (Arabic)), based on research produced by the Library of Congress. Under Comoros' Constitution, Islamic law (sharīʿa or fiqh) has legal status.
Contemporary Primary Sources :: Constitutions :: 1442 Jumādā II 1442 / 17 January 2021
Jason Golfinos
French text of the 1977 Fundamental Law of the Republic of the Comoros.
French text of the 1978 Constitution of the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros.
French text of the 1996 Constitution of the Comoros (Constitutional Law of October 20, 1996 of the Federal Islamic Republic of the Comoros).
English translation of the 2001 Constitution of the Union of the Comoros.
English translation of the 2009 Constitution of the Comoros (2001 Constitution of the Union of the Comoros, as amended to 2009).
English translation of the 2014 Constitution of the Comoros (2001 Constitution of the Union of the Comoros, as amended to Decree No. 14-045/PR of 24 March 2014).
English translation of the 2018 Constitution of the Union of the Comoros.