Editing Sharia (section)

=== Use in religious texts ===
In the Quran, {{transliteration|ar|šarīʿah}} and its cognate {{transliteration|ar|širʿah}} occur once each, with the meaning "way" or "path".{{sfn|Calder|Hooker|2007|p=321}} <ref>{{qref|45|18}}</ref><ref>{{qref|5|48}}</ref> The word {{transliteration|ar|šarīʿah}} was widely used by Arabic-speaking Jews during the Middle Ages, being the most common translation for the word {{transliteration|he|Torah}} in the 10th-century Arabic translation of the [[Torah]] by [[Saadia Gaon|Saʿadya Gaon]].{{sfn|Calder|Hooker|2007|p=321}} A similar use of the term can be found in Christian writers.{{sfn|Calder|Hooker|2007|p=321}} The Arabic expression {{transliteration|ar|Sharīʿat Allāh}} ({{lang|ar|شريعة الله}} {{gloss|God's Law}}) is a common translation for {{lang|he|תורת אלוהים}} ({{gloss|God's Law}} in Hebrew) and {{lang|grc|νόμος τοῦ θεοῦ}} ({{gloss|God's Law}} in Greek in the New Testament [Rom. 7: 22]).<ref>{{cite book |last=Ullmann |first=M. |year=2002 |title=Wörterbuch der griechisch-arabischen Übersetzungen des neunten Jahrhunderts |location=Wiesbaden |page=437 |quote=Rom. 7: 22: '{{lang|grc|συνήδομαι γὰρ τῷ νόμῳ τοῦ θεοῦ}}' is translated as '{{lang|ar|أني أفرح بشريعة الله}}'}}</ref> In Muslim literature, {{transliteration|ar|šarīʿah}} designates the laws or message of a prophet or God, in contrast to {{transliteration|ar|[[fiqh]]}}, which refers to a scholar's interpretation thereof.{{sfn|Calder|Hooker|2007|p=322}}

In older English-language law-related works in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, the word used for Sharia was '''''sheri'''''.<ref>{{cite journal|title=Corps de Droit Ottoman|journal=[[Law Quarterly Review]]|volume=21 |publisher=Stevens and Sons|date=October 1905|pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=8jUbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA443 443]–[https://books.google.com/books?id=8jUbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA444 44]}},  Number LXXXIV "The religious law of the ''Sheri'', of which the ultimate source is the Koran,[...]" – A review of ''[[Corps de Droit Ottoman]]''</ref> It, along with the French variant {{lang|fr|chéri}},<!--Relevant as the Ottoman Empire, in the late 1800s the major Muslim power, had French as its main pan-Christian language and its main language to interact with European foreigners // see the works by Johann Strauss, cited in [[Languages of the Ottoman Empire]]--> was used during the time of the [[Ottoman Empire]], and is from the [[Turkish language|Turkish]] {{lang|tr|şer'(i)}}<ref>{{cite book |last=Strauss |first=Johann |chapter-url=https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/menalib/download/pdf/2734659?originalFilename=true |year=2010 |chapter=A Constitution for a Multilingual Empire: Translations of the ''Kanun-ı Esasi'' and Other Official Texts into Minority Languages |editor=Herzog, Christoph |editor2=Malek Sharif |title=The First Ottoman Experiment in Democracy |location=[[Würzburg]] |pages=21–51 |access-date=15 September 2019 |archive-date=11 October 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191011233851/https://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/menalib/download/pdf/2734659?originalFilename=true |url-status=live }} ([http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-91645 info page on book] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190920231333/http://menadoc.bibliothek.uni-halle.de/urn/urn:nbn:de:gbv:3:5-91645 |date=20 September 2019 }} at [[Martin Luther University]]) // Cited:  (PDF p. 41/338) // ""Chéri" may sound ambiguous in French but the term, used in our context for Islamic law (Turkish: şer'(i), is widely used in the legal literature at that time."</ref> borrowed from Arabic ''šarʿ'' which is from the same root as ''šarīʿah''.