Sharia – HISTORY, CONCEPTS & CONFLICTS

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• Quran & Hadith – Sharia

  QURAN “Then We put you on an ordained way concerning the matter; so follow it, and do not follow the inclinations of those who do not know” – Qur’an 45:18 Muslims, of all colours and hues, thus follow...

• One Approach – Sharia

  Brief Background The proposal of Imam Shafi'i, as suggested in his ar-Risalah, has lasted for more than a 1000 years now. Despite the heated reception of his works by his contemporaries, the later ule...

• Sources of Sharia – Sharia

  During more than 1400 years of its history, Shari'ah had evolved slowly and imperceptibly - despite what is taught to Muslim children and despite their critic's paranoia of 'static Islam of the 7th-ce...

• Usul al-Fiqh – Sharia

  In the 9th century, al-Shafi’i formally laid down the rule that Ahadeeth must be the 2nd source of the Divine Law. However, the resistance from other jurists lasted a few centuries. When the Hadeeth (...

• Methodology – Sharia

  If you haven't yet, review this first. And I imagine you have already read the section on Schools and Sects. If rules are the path to human comfort and progress, the methodology in deriving those rule...

• Shi’a – Sharia

  The label Shi'a was invented a few decades after the death of the Prophet, by an opposition group to the government of the day. Similarly, the term Sunni was invented in the 10th-11th century CE by th...