2007-07-30 13:28:36 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Sharia is the body of Islamic law. The term means "way" or "path to the water source"; it is the legal framework within which the public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles of jurisprudence.
2007-07-30 20:33:27 · answer #1 · answered by Zain 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Shariah is the law system of a religion for the community. All messengers of God brought such a system to govern the people in a way that would suite the laws of God. The Shariah varied only a little between the different messengers. The most famous Shariahs you will have heard of is that of Prophet's Moses and Muhammed (PBUT).
2007-07-30 13:46:25 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Shariat (Shariah /Shariath) law (popularly known as Muslim Personal Law in India) is an Islamic term, which "designates the rules and regulations governing the lives of Muslims, derived mainly from Quran and Hadith (Encyclopaedia of Islam- Lieden Brill). Quran is the main source book of Islamic laws but this law "as it is known and practiced today was compiled more than a hundred years after the death of the Prophet" (Muslim Politics in India by S.K.Ghosh, 1987, page 46). "The broad outline of the Shariat was, no doubt, drawn from Quran, but for details and the newer issues which arose from time to time, in differing circumstances recourse had to be made to sources other than the Quran like the Prophetic traditions or practice (Sunna), consensus (ijma), and lastly creative interpretation (Iztihad)"
2007-07-30 13:43:29 · answer #3 · answered by russiancatsima 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋