Sharia

n. (Islam) code of law based on the Koran; holy laws of the Islam which cover aspects of day-to-day life

This article is about Islamic religious law. For the fictional character in One Thousand and One Nights see Shahryar. Sharia (Arabic: ) is the dynamic body of Islamic religious law. The term means "way" or "path to the water source"; it is the legal framework within which the public and some private aspects of life are regulated for those living in a legal system based on Muslim principles of jurisprudence.
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Noun
1. 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"
(synonym) shariah, shariah law, sharia law, Islamic law
(hypernym) law, jurisprudence
(hyponym) hudud, hudood
(class) halal

(1) Historically, the term "Sharia" refers to all the elements of a proper--i.e., righteous--Islamic life; these include proper moral behavior, proper respect towards Allah, correct belief, proper personal piety, and so on. In other words, it means the right way to life one's life as a Moslem. (2) In more recent times, it has come to refer to a much narrower notion, that of "Islamic Law." This usage is quite common in the Western press.