Sharia
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Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law derived primarily from the Quran and the teachings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad, guiding both personal conduct and aspects of public and legal life in Muslim communities.
All labels observed (19)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Sharia canonical | 36 |
| Islamic law | 20 |
| Islamic law (Sharia) | 10 |
| Sharia law | 3 |
| Islamic law (sharia) | 2 |
| Shariah | 2 |
| Ijma | 1 |
| Islamic Sharia | 1 |
| Islamic law (Shariah) | 1 |
| Malaysian Islamic law | 1 |
| Sharia (divine law in principle) | 1 |
| Sharia (historical) | 1 |
| Sharia (personal and customary matters) | 1 |
| Sharia in Brunei | 1 |
| Sharia law (for Muslims) | 1 |
| Shari’a | 1 |
| The Islamic Provisions | 1 |
| al-Shariah | 1 |
| sharīʿa (Islamic law) | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T66877 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sharia Context triple: [Islam, legalFoundation, Sharia]
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A.
Islam
Islam is a major monotheistic Abrahamic religion centered on the belief in one God (Allah) and the prophethood of Muhammad, whose teachings are recorded in the Quran.
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B.
Vatican civil law
Vatican civil law is the internal legal system governing the secular and administrative affairs of Vatican City under the authority of the Holy See.
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C.
Talmud
The Talmud is a central Jewish religious text comprising rabbinic discussions, legal rulings, and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible that form the foundation of traditional Jewish law and theology.
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D.
SHASS
SHASS is the abbreviated name commonly used for the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at academic institutions.
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E.
Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the covenant between God and the Jewish people and expressed through the Hebrew Bible, law, and tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Sharia Target entity description: Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law derived primarily from the Quran and the teachings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad, guiding both personal conduct and aspects of public and legal life in Muslim communities.
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A.
Islam
Islam is a major monotheistic Abrahamic religion centered on the belief in one God (Allah) and the prophethood of Muhammad, whose teachings are recorded in the Quran.
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B.
Vatican civil law
Vatican civil law is the internal legal system governing the secular and administrative affairs of Vatican City under the authority of the Holy See.
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C.
Talmud
The Talmud is a central Jewish religious text comprising rabbinic discussions, legal rulings, and interpretations of the Hebrew Bible that form the foundation of traditional Jewish law and theology.
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D.
SHASS
SHASS is the abbreviated name commonly used for the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences at academic institutions.
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E.
Judaism
Judaism is one of the world’s oldest monotheistic religions, centered on the covenant between God and the Jewish people and expressed through the Hebrew Bible, law, and tradition.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (64)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Islamic law
ⓘ
normative system ⓘ religious legal system ⓘ |
| appliedIn |
Islamic finance
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personal status courts ⓘ |
| appliesTo | Muslims ⓘ |
| consideredByBelievers | divine law ⓘ |
| derivedFrom |
Hadith
ⓘ
Sharia self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ijma
Qiyas ⓘ practices of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ teachings of Prophet Muhammad ⓘ |
| distinguishedFrom | fiqh ⓘ |
| goal |
promotion of justice
ⓘ
protection of intellect ⓘ protection of life ⓘ protection of lineage ⓘ protection of property ⓘ protection of religion ⓘ |
| hasComponent |
acts of worship
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commercial law ⓘ contract law ⓘ criminal law ⓘ dietary rules ⓘ ethical guidelines ⓘ family law ⓘ inheritance law ⓘ rules of charity ⓘ rules of custody ⓘ rules of divorce ⓘ rules of financial transactions ⓘ rules of governance ⓘ rules of marriage ⓘ rules of personal conduct ⓘ rules of public conduct ⓘ rules of ritual purity ⓘ rules of testimony ⓘ |
| hasSchoolOfInterpretation |
Hanafi school
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Hanbali school ⓘ Ja'fari school ⓘ Maliki school ⓘ Shafi'i school ⓘ |
| includesObligation |
almsgiving
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fasting ⓘ pilgrimage ⓘ prayer ⓘ profession of faith ⓘ |
| influences | legal systems in some Muslim-majority countries ⓘ |
| interpretedBy |
Islamic jurists
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muftis ⓘ qadis ⓘ |
| languageOfTerm | Arabic ⓘ |
| literalMeaning | path to a watering place ⓘ |
| normativeStatusInIslam | binding on Muslims ⓘ |
| primarySource |
Quran
ⓘ
Sunnah ⓘ |
| religion | Islam ⓘ |
| scope |
criminal justice
ⓘ
economic activity ⓘ family life ⓘ governance and politics ⓘ personal life ⓘ social relations ⓘ |
| studiedIn | fiqh ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Sharia Description of subject: Sharia is the body of Islamic religious law derived primarily from the Quran and the teachings and practices of the Prophet Muhammad, guiding both personal conduct and aspects of public and legal life in Muslim communities.
Referenced by (86)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
subject surface form:
Maqasid al-Shariah
this entity surface form:
al-Shariah
subject surface form:
Pashtunwali
this entity surface form:
Islamic law (Sharia)
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
this entity surface form:
Sharia in Brunei
this entity surface form:
Islamic law (Shariah)
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
this entity surface form:
Malaysian Islamic law
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
subject surface form:
Sharia Courts (Nigeria)
this entity surface form:
Sharia (historical)
this entity surface form:
Sharia (personal and customary matters)
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
this entity surface form:
Shari’a
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
subject surface form:
Government of Mauritania
this entity surface form:
Islamic law (Sharia)
subject surface form:
Faculty of Law, South Valley University
this entity surface form:
Islamic law (Sharia)
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
this entity surface form:
Islamic Sharia
this entity surface form:
Islamic law (Sharia)
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
subject surface form:
qadiasker
this entity surface form:
Islamic law
this entity surface form:
Islamic law (Sharia)