Topics of Islamic Law
Shari'ah law can be organized in different ways and Professor Abdur Rahman I. Doi, author of Shari'ah: The Islamic Law has divided Shari'ah content into five main branches:
- Family relations
- Crime and punishment
- Inheritance and disposal of property
- The economic system
- External and other relations
"Reliance of the Traveller", an English translation of a fourteenth century CE reference on the Shafi'i school of fiqh written by Ahmad ibn Naqib al-Misri, organizes sharia law into the following topics:
- Purification
- Prayer
- Funeral prayer
- Taxes
- Fasting
- Pilgrimage
- Trade
- Inheritance
- Marriage
- Divorce
- Justice
In some areas, there are substantial differences in the law between different schools of fiqh, countries, cultures and schools of thought.
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