Sharia Law - Topics of Islamic Law

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:

  1. Family relations
  2. Crime and punishment
  3. Inheritance and disposal of property
  4. The economic system
  5. 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:

  1. Purification
  2. Prayer
  3. Funeral prayer
  4. Taxes
  5. Fasting
  6. Pilgrimage
  7. Trade
  8. Inheritance
  9. Marriage
  10. Divorce
  11. 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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