Definition of "sharia" [sharia]

• Alternative form of shari'a. (noun)

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• "The average American hears the word sharia and thinks only of the stoning of adulterers."
• "The term "sharia" is much broader than that, though."
• "And when certain states impose what they refer to as sharia or when certain Muslim activists demand its recognition alongside secular jurisdictions, they are usually referring not to a universal and fixed code established once for all but to some particular concretisation of it at the hands of a tradition of jurists."