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shari·ah

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. shariah, shariah law, sharia, sharia law, Islamic lawnoun

    the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed

    "sharia is only applicable to Muslims"; "under Islamic law there is no separation of church and state"

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  1. shariah

    Shariah is the Islamic legal system derived from the Quran (the holy book of Islam) and Hadith (teachings and practices of Prophet Muhammad). It covers various aspects of daily life including religious rituals, morality, business and financial transactions, criminal and civil law, and social issues. It is considered the divine law of Allah (God) and can vary in interpretation and application among different Islamic communities or cultures.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of shariah in Chaldean Numerology is: 9

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of shariah in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of shariah in a Sentence

  1. Christopher Chivvis:

    It appears likely that this was an attack by the Islamic State but we have to remember that there are also other possibilities, it could have been Ansar al Shariah in Tunisia, which is a local group. It could have been al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb.

  2. Hamza Nmeie:

    There, we learned this ideology of jihad, we were told that there was no country in the world that was properly ruled by shariah. This was all new for me, but in Syria, I saw and heard even more extreme things than I had heard in Belgium.

  3. Falah Russell-IdealRatings:

    We are in the infancy of Shariah-compliant investing in this country.

  4. United States:

    It would be extremely out of the ordinary for them not do this for a senior leader like al-Asiri, especially because his group in Yemen are putting out all sorts of statements all the time, every time a senior leader within al-Qaeda or its affiliate in Yemen has been killed, they have been quick to put out a statement. It's seen as a religious necessity from a Shariah point of view.

  5. Kiri Kankhwende:

    Since then, the government has called for a 100 percent Islamic nation with a constitution based wholly on Shariah law.

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