Amiri Decree

The decree of an Emir or his representatives (Arabic: القرار الأميري), generally in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.

See for example:

  1. Amiri Decree Law No. 13 of 1984 (Bahrain), establishing a High Counsel for Labour Services1
  2. Amiri Decree No. 11/1999 (Qatar) forming a Constitution Drafting Committee2
  3. Amiri Decree No. 3 of 1988 as amended by the Amiri Decree No. 3 of 1996 (Ajman, UAE) creating and granting autonomous status to the Ajman Free Zone3

Famous quotes containing the words amiri and/or decree:

    “It burns the thing
    inside it. And that thing
    screams.”
    —Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    “In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.”
    —Joseph De Maistre (1753–1821)