sharia law

Questions about sharia law

What does sharia law mean?

sharia law means "the code of law derived from the Koran and from the teachings and example of Mohammed".

What is another word for sharia law?

Close synonyms include shariah, shariah law, sharia, Islamic law. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sharia law a common word?

sharia law is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.