Islamic Culture - Islamic Law in Modern Society

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Islamic Culture
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1ISLAMIC CULTURE
Islamic Law in Modern Society
Introduction
Coulson (2017) states that Islamic law is one of the greatest laws of the world. It was
responsible to influence the legal systems of the religion of Islam where the traditional
Islamic law is termed as “Sharia”. Sharia in Islamic language means following the right path
and the people who did not follow the right path was subjected to punishments. According to
the sharia law the Muslims are expected to abide by the rules of Islam which include
believing in Allah and working according to his wishes. The primary source of the Islamic
law is the holy boom of the Muslims, the Qur’an and Hadith (Yilmaz 2016).The following
essay deals with this concept of Islam religion and how the Muslims abide by them in the
present day scenario.
Discussion
However according to Kuran (2013), after globalisation and modernism the traditional
laws of the Islamic religion have been abandoned and the modern European laws and legal
models have influenced the Islamic culture to a great extent. There have been modifications
in the legislative codes of the Islam without alterations in the traditionalism. The colonialism
under the British rule had influenced the changes in the criminal laws and the commercial
laws of the Muslims (Lavish 2017). For example, in the 20th century, the legal codes had been
revised by the Egyptian scholar Abd El-Razzak El-Sanhuri (Miller, Ziad-Miller and Elamin
2014). He had an argument that the Islamic legal heritage needed a reformation based on the
contemporary societal rules but without any form of alternation with the traditional laws.
Miller, Ziad-Miller and Elamin (2014) also states that he drafted the legal codes of Iraq in the
year 1951 following the European laws. His new drafted legal code included both the