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Intisar A. Rabb

Legal scholar and professor

Sep 21, 2026

Grace Gee
Grace GeeCORRESPONDENT
38:52
I said, 1400
38:54
years old.
38:55
And it really is an Arabic term just to refer to that Islamic religious movement.
39:05
ethical, legal system that helped to organize society with respect to this Islamic message.
39:16
And so with reference to Muhammad the Prophet, the Quran, which is scripture in the Islamic world, but then also as we have with Anglo American and some civil law societies, tons of now treatises and court decisions and fatwas or advisory opinions and, you know, individual legal opinions.
39:39
So there's this whole body, almost common law-like of decisions and opinions that all, you might say, constitute Islamic law.
39:51
So I think it's neither a monolith, nor is it... strange to think that a society, including societies of yesteryear, all of which were organized on religious bases, including the Holy Roman Empire as a counterpart to the Islamic world at the time.

6 MINS LATER

46:03
And people don't have aversions once they understand the context of what Sharia law actually means.

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