Your complimentary articles You’ve read one of your four complimentary articles for this month. You can read four articles free per month. To have complete access to the thousands of philosophy articles on this site, please Islam & Philosophy Oliver Leaman looks at philosophical problems related to basing law on religion. Islam has a long and intricate legal history, and this has led to important arguments in the Islamic world about what law rests upon and how far it may be changed. Sunni Islam is divided up into four major legal schools, and there are a variety also in the Shi`i tradition. There are often different approaches to ritual and punishment, and in particular, in how to judge cases. Some schools accept analogy and precedent, others do not, or at least are cautious on straying from the letter of the law.…