How to Use sharia in a Sentence

sharia

noun
  • The judge is also shown as believing deeply in the religious basis of sharia law.
    — Kenneth Turan, latimes.com, 19 Apr. 2018
  • Graffiti praises Osama bin Laden and urges rule by Islamic sharia law.
    — Sudarsan Raghavan, Washington Post, 6 July 2018
  • But she's also faced criticism from women's rights advocates for her defense of sharia law and other positions.
    — Brooke Singman, Fox News, 7 July 2017
  • Earlier, a video of the men, naked and distressed as they were apprehended by sharia police, was released and viewed widely on social media.
    — NBC News, 24 May 2017
  • An Islamist is a Muslim committed to the imposition of sharia.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 12 Aug. 2017
  • With the anti-sharia group inside, about 300 counterprotesters demonstrated on the front steps of the Capitol.
    — Will Ashenmacher, Twin Cities, 10 June 2017
  • The events target sharia, which is guidance developed from the Quran that helps shape the legal systems in many Islamic countries.
    — Seattle Times Staff, The Seattle Times, 2 June 2017
  • Saudi Arabian courts looks to Islamic law, also called sharia law, to guide the punishments assigned to crimes.
    — Lily Herman, Allure, 15 Aug. 2017
  • While Islamic women are required by sharia law to cover their heads while in public, there's no such expectation for western women.
    — Gregory Korte, USA TODAY, 20 May 2017
  • The comments have widely been described as inaccurate, and reflect certain conspiracies about sharia law that crop up in some circles of the far-right in the West.
    — The Washington Post, NOLA.com, 11 Jan. 2018
  • Semi-autonomous Aceh province is governed by sharia Islamic law.
    — NBC News, 24 May 2017
  • Hundreds of thousands fled as the extremists began to enforce their violent rule, which included public beheadings and the enforcement of sharia law.
    — Kara Fox, CNN, 10 July 2017
  • Since 2011, the insurgent group based in northern Nigeria has sought to recast that country as a state based on sharia, or Islamic law.
    — Robert Draper, National Geographic, 17 June 2019
  • Nor will the party that turned a centrist technocrat into a sharia-socialist have trouble demonizing Pelosi’s successor.
    — Eric Levitz, Daily Intelligencer, 21 June 2017
  • Although Nigeria’s northern states have long enforced sharia, or Islamic law, their interpretation was not strict enough for Yusuf.
    — The Economist, 14 July 2018
  • The hardline Islamist movement blew up girls' schools and imposed a strict interpretation of sharia Islamic law during their rule over Swat.
    — Author: Kay Johnson, Asif Shahzad, Anchorage Daily News, 29 Mar. 2018
  • An example is Boko Haram, which is fighting to topple Nigeria's government and create an Islamic state under sharia law.
    — Ann M. Simmons, latimes.com, 12 Mar. 2018
  • Due to its Saudi government ownership, the vessel is sharia-compliant, serving only halal food in its 15 restaurants, with no alcohol or gaming on-board.
    — Scott Campbell, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Establishing common standards for sharia compliance has been a gradual process, restricting the acceptability of the bonds in some jurisdictions.
    — Bloomberg.com, 27 Mar. 2018
  • Interest is prohibited under sharia law, so the move was lauded as a step towards expanding financial services for the country’s large and often poor Muslim minority.
    — The Economist, 13 July 2017
  • They are appalled by its sharia punishments and mistreatment of women, and scared by its Wahhabi form of Islam, which has fed gruesome jihadist ideologies such as that of Islamic State.
    — The Economist, 23 June 2018
  • In countries with less dynamic governments, such as Algeria, Jordan and Palestine, polls show that support for sharia and sympathy for Islamist movements is high and growing.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2017
  • Aceh is the only province in Muslim-majority Indonesia to practice sharia, a concession made by the central government in 2005 to end a decades-long war for independence.
    — Washington Post, 14 Mar. 2018
  • Islamic finance may also avoid sectors and products considered haram, or unclean; for example, a sharia-compliant ETF may avoid banks that offer traditional loans or e-commerce platforms that sell pork.
    — Angelica Ang, Fortune, 29 Apr. 2026
  • Robinson also said Abu Khattala was a deeply religious man who believes in conservative sharia law as outlined in the Quran, but reminded jurors that in America, people are not prosecuted because of their religious beliefs.
    — Deb Riechmann, USA TODAY, 2 Oct. 2017
  • Meanwhile, conservative authors will talk to conservative readers via conservative media outlets about the Nazi foundation of the Democratic Party and the sinister creep of sharia law—and maybe about the Times’s insidious liberal bias.
    — Alex Shephard, New Republic, 12 Sep. 2017
  • Despite Washington’s best efforts, Americans grasp the difference between (a) Islam as a personal religious affiliation and (b) sharia supremacism as an anti-Western political ideology.
    — Andrew C. McCarthy, National Review, 20 July 2019
  • Mohammadi, Mehdi Ghasemi, and Saeed Davoudi were hanged in the city of Qom, south of Tehran, after being convicted of the capital crime of waging war against God, known as moharebeh under Iran's sharia, the judiciary's Mizan news agency said.
    — CBS News, 19 Mar. 2026
  • According to the Washington Post, there are 10 countries where homosexuality — or any deviation from heterosexuality — may be punishable by death (the punishment typically depends on that country’s interpretation of the Muslim sharia law).
    — Gillian Fuller, Allure, 5 July 2017

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