shariʽa
noun
sha·riʽa
variants
or
or less commonly
or
or
or sheri
or sheria
or sheriat
-ēət
ˈshär
shəˈrē
shəˈrēə
-ēət
plural -s
often capitalized
: the body of formally established sacred law in Islam based primarily on Allah's commandments found in the Koran and revealed through the sunna of Muhammad, governing in theory not only religious matters but regulating as well political, economic, civil, criminal, ethical, social, and domestic affairs in Muslim countries, and commonly in practice being supplemented by the customary law of a region compare adat
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