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Also known as: Islamic law, Syariah law, sharīʿah
Written by
Ahmed El Shamsy
Associate Professor, University of Chicago. His publications include The Canonization of Islamic Law: A Social and Intellectual History (2013).
Ahmed El Shamsy,
Noel James Coulson
Professor of Oriental Laws, University of London, 1967–86. Author of A History of Islamic Law.
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sharīʿah
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Abū al-Aʿlā al-Mawdūdī

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sharia, the fundamental religious concept of Islam—namely, its law. The religious law of Islam is seen as the expression of God’s command for Muslims and, in application, constitutes a system of duties that are incumbent upon all Muslims by virtue of their religious belief. Known as the sharīʿah (literally, “path leading to the watering place”), the law represents a divinely ordained path of conduct that guides Muslims toward a practical expression of religious conviction in this world and the goal of divine favour in the world to come. In classical form, the sharia differs from Western systems of law in ...(100 of 6345 words)

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