Definition of Shariat

1. sharia [n -S] - See also: sharia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shariat

sharer
sharers
shares
sharest
shareth
shareware
sharewares
sharewort
shari'a
sharia
sharia law
shariah
shariah law
shariahs
sharias
shariat (current term)
shariats
sharif
sharifian
sharifs
sharing
sharings
shark
shark-jumping
shark-liver oil
shark attack
shark bait
shark fin
shark fin soup
shark fin soups

Literary usage of Shariat

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Double Jeopardy: Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan by Asia Watch Committee (U.S.), Asia Watch Committee (U.S. (1992)
"Important sections of the shariat Act provide that: * The shariat...shall be the supreme law of Pakistan, provided that the political system and present ..."

2. Life in the Moslem East by Pierre Ponafidine (1911)
"... Unchangeableness of Persian Social Life—The Koran's Principle of an " Eye for an Eye "—Who Can, According to the shariat, be Appointed as Judge—shariat ..."

3. The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus by John Frederick Baddeley (1908)
"According to Mussulman mystics Islam consists of three parts—shariat (= the Law), Tarikat (= the Path), Hakikat (= the Truth)—the one worldly, the other two ..."

4. The Russian Conquest of the Caucasus by John Frederick Baddeley (1908)
"According to Mussulman mystics Islam consists of three parts—shariat (= the Law), Tarikat (= the Path), Hakikat (= the Truth)—the one worldly, the other two ..."

5. A Gift for Muslim Women by Muḥammad ʻĀshiq Ilāhī (2001)
"... though in this case willingness of the woman would be a necessary condition of Nikah. Facility given by shariat ..."

6. Pakistan: A Country Study edited by Peter R. Blood (1996)
"A later decision by the Federal shariat Court has made defiling the name of the Prophet Muhammad punishable by a mandatory death penalty. ..."

7. A Brief Account of the Countries Adjoining the Lake of Tiberias, the Jordan by Ulrich Jasper Seetzen, Palestine Association of London (1810)
"... and said it was a place in ruins, in the valley of shariat ... which flows'from the north, falls into the shariat- ..."

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