The Question of Sharia - Is it good for Islam after all?
- Sharia, - or Islamic law, influences the legal code in most Muslim countries. A movement to allow sharia to govern personal status law, a set of regulations that pertain to marriage, divorce, inheritance, and custody, is even expanding into the West.
The Sharia Muslims speak of today is very different from the Sharia that existed during the time of the Prophet. The four dominant Sunni Islamic schools of thought—Hanbali, Maliki, Shafi'i, and Hanafi—did not even exist during Muhammad's reign. Like the contested doctrine of Quranic abrogation, the schools of thought were all developed centuries later after the Prophet's death by religious scholars and men. Mere fallible bearded men, rarely women in case you haven't noticed.
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