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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima] I  recently stumbled on an excerpt of aTED talk by Lesley Hazleton: A "tourist" reads the Koran". I think it sums up very well most misunderstandings that people have about the Quran. I haven't watched the full talk yet which is about 90minutes but will definitely do so. I for one, appreciated the sincerity, and humor in her approach.  Here's the excerpt:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y2Or0LlO6g#t=560
Now, as far as Shariah law is concerned, it is fluid and  decentralized.The Muslim scholar Hamza Yusuf commented that ‘reducing Shariah down to the punishments is like reducing the US judicial system down to the electric chair’.  Any scholar with enough years of study can issue a fatwa (opinion) and it is not binding on anyone other than the one who chooses to follow it.  Shariah considers context, time and place in its rulings. It is not uniform, what is considered an obligation/binding on one person may be prohibited for another. Rulings are made on a  case-by-case basis. The principles behind Shariah remain the same but the applications are widely varied depending on a lot of different things including time, place, ect. [b]The only people who attempted to formalize and codify shariah were the British with their colonies when they created the ‘Anglo-Muhammadan Law’ in an attempt to better control the law [/b]. Because of the very nature of Shariah law, a simplistic comparison to other legal systems will for the most part always be misleading. In fact, most Muslims have a very basic understanding of Shariah law, and that is another problem as well.....[/quote]

This is so incredibly FALSE.  What about Umdat al Salik, the official Sunni manual of Sharia law?  It is certified by al-Azhar and is the official Sharia manual of the Muslim Brotherhood.  It also includes the slight differences of Sharia interpretation of the different madh'habs.  The English translation, Reliance of the Traveller, however, does not include the section on slavery.   [/quote]

Not. The danger is not radical Islam, it is radical ignorance. Umdat al Salik better known as Reliance of the Traveler in English is a manual of Fiqh for the Shaffi school of Jurisprudence. You do know that there are 4 schools of jurisprudence in Islam?  UMdat al Salik is not Shariah, it is a manual on shariah and there are many other manuals of shariah. You did know that right? Shariah in itself is fluid, the PRINCIPLES behind it remain the same but the APPLICATIONS are widely varied. There is no such thing as an "official sunni sharia" book. Seriously? [/quote]

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