RELG 203 Lecture 1: Week 13-1 Lecture Notes
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Sharia refers to the system of law that emerged in the context of islam. Essentially, the concept of sharia is derived from the idea that law is not something that can be derived from human intention. No legal threat for those who violate the law - lie in court. The notion that law derives from the divine realm. From the perspective of political monotheism, sharia - like ecclesial law in the church of the torah in judaism - allows for the direct connection between the daily lives of. As we have seen several times, the speci c structure of a particular form of islam is found in the conjunction between the quran on the one hand and the hadith that are accepted on the other way. Up until muhammad, authority goes one way. After muhammad, everything around the quran has changed - constructed authority out what people remembered. Depends on how you understand the hadith tradition.
