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Vol. 26, No. 2: Full Issue Denver Journal of International Law & Policy Volume 26 Number 2 Winter Article 10 May 2020 Vol. 26, no. 2: Full Issue Denver Journal International Law & Policy Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.du.edu/djilp Recommended Citation 26 Denv. J. Int'l L. & Pol'y (1997). This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by the University of Denver Sturm College of Law at Digital Commons @ DU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Denver Journal of International Law & Policy by an authorized editor of Digital Commons @ DU. For more information, please contact [email protected],dig- [email protected]. DENVER JOURNAL OF INTERNATIONAL LAW AND POLICY VOLUME 26 1997-1998 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy VOLUME 26 NUMBER 2 WINTER 1997-1998 ARTICLES WHAT'S IN A NAME?: LAW, RELIGION, AND IsLAMIC NAMES ....................... KM. Sharma 151 ISRAEL'S NUCLEAR STRATEGY AMBIGUITY: DISCLosuRE DOCTRINE ................ Louis Rene Beres 209 PEACE BY OTHER MEANS: USING REWARDS IN UN EFFORTS TO END CONFLICTS ........................ Edward A Amley, Jr. 235 RESCHEDULINGS AS THE GROUNDwORK FOR SECONDARY MARKETS IN SOVEREIGN DEBT ........................ Ross P. Buckley 299 BOOK NOTES ................................................ 311 Denver Journal of International Law and Policy VOLUME 26 NUMBER 2 WINTER 1997-1998 BOARD OF EDITORS MIKE MAUSETH Editor-in-Chief JAN KNEISEL NICOLLE FLEURY Senior Editor Executive Editor CHRISTOPHER M. GERLACH MICHAEL BUCHANAN NAN SMITH SCRANTON DAVID WHITING Managing Editors Business Editors FARHEEN HUSSAIN Book Review Editor NAN SMITH SCRANTON AMY ECKERT Symposium Editor Special Edition Editor Articles Editors ROBIN BOWERS TIMOTHY A. KRUYER DAVID KATALINAS SCOTT MADSEN MEMBERS LISA BAUSCH DAVID HARSTON MANOO MOFIDI DEAN CHAPLA JEFFREY HOLAPPE BRANDI PUMMELL CAROLINE COOLEY CATHLEEN HOPFE MARLA C. REICHEL MEG CURRY HEATHER HUNT SARAH SCOFIELD GEOFFREY DEWEESE ROB Huss STEPHEN ToKARz ALISON DOUGHERTY JOE IRWIN TRENT TRANI FRANK FANNON KRISTEN KOENIG CHRIsTYNE VACHON MELANIE GILBERT JASON KWAN GEOFF WILLIAMS MEREDITH McDONALD FACULTY ADVISOR VED P. NANDA ADVISORY BOARD YONAH ALEXANDER GEORGE CODDING, JR. MYRES S. McDoUGAL THEODORE L. BANKS JONATHAN C.S. Cox MAURICE B. MITCHELL M. CHERIF BASSIOUNI ARGHYRIOS A. FATOuROS JOHN NORTON MOORE UPENDRA BAm EDWARD GORDON JAMES A.R. NAFZIGER WILLIAM M. BEANEY JOHN L. HARGROVE GLADYS OPPENHEIMER JOHN BETz DONALD W. HOAGLAND EKKEHART MULLER-RAPPARD HAROLD S. BLOOMENTHAL FREDERIC L. KIRGIS WILLIAM M. REISMAN MURRAY BLUMENTHAL RALPH B. LAKE DANIEL L. RITCHIE ZACK V. CHAYET DENNIS 0. LYNCH LEONARD v.B. SUTPON DOMINIQUE CARREAU ROBERT B. YEGGE ALFRED J. COCO WILLIAM F. ZARANKA Website: www.du.edu/ilj/home.htm WHAT'S IN A NAME?: Law, Religion, and Islamic Names K.M. SHARMA" I. INTRODUCTION: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF A NAME "What's in a name? that which we call a rose/ By any other name would smell as sweet." These memorable and oft-misunderstood lines of Juliet's speech' in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, an outpouring of B.A., M.A., LL.B., Diploma in Labor Laws, LL.M. (Rajasthan); LL.M., S.J.D. (Harvard); Faculty of Law, University of New South Wales, Sydney, N.S.W., Australia. The author gratefully acknowledges the perceptive comments of his colleague, Professor George Win- terton, who very graciously reviewed an earlier draft of this paper. 1. Since Juliet was referring specifically to surnames, her tardiness may perhaps be understandable. The practice of surnames developed at the end of the fourteenth century in England when it became essential to distinguish between the several "Johns" and "Marys" in the same community. Hitherto a person's given name was the most important one, given at baptism, and could only be changed at confirmation. PERCY H. REANEY, THE ORIGIN OF ENGLISH SURNAMES 83 (1967); G.S. Arnold, Personal Names, 15 YALE L.J. 227, 227 (1905). Thus, in Juliet's time, since surnames were comparative latecomers, they were accorded somewhat less respect, though first names of all kinds had been in vogue from the most distant times in history. The play involves the tale of two young in- nocent lovers unnecessarily dying for love through misunderstandings and because of the really alive and deadly feud between their families (the Montagues and the Capulets). It does not seem to concern Romeo that Juliet is of the opposing faction, but Juliet speaks at last of the feud (though she does not know that Romeo is listening): O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love, And I'll no longer be a Capulet. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ROMEO AND JULIET act. 2, sc. 2, 11. 33-36 (1594-95) [hereinafter ROMEO AND JULIET], in THE ANNOTATED SHAKESPEARE 1604, 1627 (A.L. Rowse ed., Greenwich House 1984) [hereinafter ANNOTATED SHAKESPEARE]. "Wherefore" means "why" and Juliet of Capulet is asking the absent Romeo of Montague why he is called "Montague." Oh, if only he weren't. All she can lament is his cursed clan-name: 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy; Thou art thyself, though [you were] not a Montague. What's Montague? it is nor hand, nor foot, Nor arm, nor face, nor any other part Belonging to a man. 0, be some other name! What's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet; So Romeo would, were he not Romeo call'd, Retain that dear perfection which he owes Without that title. Romeo, doff thy name, DENV. J. INT'L L. & POLY VOL. 26:2 romantic agony, should not be taken to mean that the versatile Bard was a flimsy etymologist oblivious to the importance of the "naming game" or the legal implications thereof.2 In fact, naming a newborn child, except in cases where family tradition or the desire to propitiate wealthy relatives or to honor some favorite relative or godparent take precedence over personal wishes, is one of the important parental du- ties and is a matter usually of considerable thought. 3 Moreover, contro- versies over legitimate and illegitimate children's names, particularly surnames involving familial autonomy, divorced spouses or de facto couples, and equal treatment, are arising today with much greater fre- quency than before as century-old naming practices collide with modern sensitivities about children's best interests and women's rights. Specifi- cally, the traditional deference to a father's prerogative to name his children the way he likes, unless forfeited by misconduct or neglect, has been seriously questioned as being completely out-of-tune with current social mores and gender-justice-oriented realities. A recent tastefully produced book 4 reminds us that the first thing that Allah taught Adam was all the names of all the things. Many Qur'anic verses (aayats), personal acts and sayings of the Prophet And for that name which is no part of thee Take all myself. ROMEO AND JULIET, supra, at 11. 38-48; ANNOTATED SHAKESPEARE, supra, at 1627. Ro- meo makes himself known and somewhat dramatically denounces his name, saying: I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be now baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo. ROMEO AND JULIET, supra, at 11. 49-51; ANNOTATED SHAKESPEARE, supra, at 1627. Ro- meo's and Juliet's fateful outcome attests, however, to the problems that arise as a result of a system based on customs and traditions attached to surnames. 2. References to "Name" and "Names" occur frequently in Shakespeare's plays. For a select sampling, see app. I. 3. For an examination of the various views of some philosophers, logicians, and lin- guistics on the protean functions of names, see FARHANG ZABEEH, WHAT IS IN A NAME?: AN INQUIRY INTO THE SEMANTICS AND PRAGMATICS OF PROPER NAMES (1968). 4. SALAHUDDIN AHMED, MUSLIM NAMES - WITH QUOTATIONS FROM THE QUR'AN: A FACET OF MUSLIM CULTURE (Ahmed Publishers, Sydney, Australia, 1997, Pp. ix+307) [hereinafter AHMED]; see infra notes 40-49 and the accompanying text for some comments on this book; see generally THE HOLY QUR-AN ENGLISH TRANSLATION OF THE MEANINGS AND COMMENTARY (Ustadh Abdullah Yusuf Ali trans.; the Presidency of Islamic Re- searches, Ifta, Call and Guidance rev. & ed., Holy Qur-iin Printing Complex, Al-Madinah Al-Munawarah, 1410 H [1990], under the auspices of the Ministry of Hajj and Endow- ment, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia) [hereinafter ENGLISH TRANSLATION] (most references to Qur'anic texts in this Article are to this monumental work, though, some capitaliza- tions have been omitted); THE MEANING OF THE GLORIOUS KORAN (Marmaduke Pickthall trans., Dorset Press, New York, n.d.). 1998 WHAT'S IN A NAME? Muhammad (hadith)5 and those of his Companions constitute a major source of Islamic law and religion, extolling the importance of carefully selecting beautiful names for one's children, 6 - for on the Day of Resur- rection everyone will be summoned by their names and the names of their fathers. For example, when the wife of Imraan gave birth to a daughter who later became the mother of Prophet 'Isa, she told Allah: "I have named her Maryam." 7 This indicates the importance of naming a child soon after its birth. Many Muslims are not aware of the true meaning or bearing on Islamic heritage of their names, particularly be- cause of their unfamiliarity, or only a superficial acquaintance with Arabic or Persian. Furthermore, the extremely complex vocabulary of the Arabic language results in multiple meanings and subtle nuances; thus, Muslims oftentimes end up selecting names which are bereft of any real meaning, or have no relation to the existing stock of names. Names go in and out of fashion for reasons that can be recorded, but there are always fastidious individuals in India who complain that they are tired of Rajiv or Sanjay or Priyanka or whatever may be the vogue name of the year, and that they want something novel.
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