Introduction                ‘The literal meaning of sharia is ‘the road to watering hold’,                 the clear, right or straight path to be followed. In Islam, it                 came to mean the divinely mandated path, the straight path,                 the straight path to Islam, that Muslim were to follow,…

The Pre-Islamic Period The place where Islam was born is Arabian Peninsula. This country has a land of one million square miles (or 625,000 squares Kms) which is mainly dominated by desert and steppe areas. It was inhibited by Bedawin tribes who were nomads and pastoralists. They were moving from…