REL STD 5A Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Female Genital Mutilation, Fiqh, Rashidun
23 Nov 2015
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Islamic law: fiqh = jurisprudence, conclusion of fiqhj = sharia, sharia = law, involves everything. Behavior, public and private : differs via country different sharia in different places (ex) the degree to which women are veiled. Africa: female circumcision: there is no one school of law, no one sharia. Protected guidance from god: shia saints are revered. Feasts and holidays: remember the martyred shia saints: sunni, successor can be old friends of muhammad, majority, ~85, save reverence for god. Reverence for sainthood is like idolatry: sufi, mystics, trouble. Do not need book or church because have direct access to god: saints and shrines. Based on whether or how much the religion should change in a modern world. Jihadist: ultimate conservatives, purists , don"t change sharia for modern world or adapt to western ideas. Strict pre-modern sharia laws: embrace violence as religious duty.
