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means The body of Islamic religious law derived from the Quran and the teachings and example of the Prophet Muhammad, covering worship, ethics, and social conduct alongside legal rulings.

from From Arabic 'shari'a,' meaning 'the path' or, more literally, 'the way to a watering place' — the route a thirsty traveler follows to reach the one spring that sustains life in a desert. The image is deliberate: this isn't a maze of courtroom rules but the single clear way to the source. The root 'sh-r-'' relates to opening onto water, and the word's sense evolved from that literal path to a divinely ordained way of life, long before it became shorthand in Western headlines for 'Islamic law' narrowly conceived.