Refuting Islam

🌍 Islamic Law by Country: What School Rules Your Nation?

The global map of Sharia isn’t random. It’s doctrinal, legal, and enforced.

📘 Introduction

Many assume Sharia is just a vague set of spiritual principles.
But in reality, Islamic law is codified, categorized, and school-specific.

There are five major schools of jurisprudence (fiqh):

Four Sunni: Hanafi, Maliki, Shafi’i, Hanbali
One Shia: Ja’fari (Twelver)

Every Muslim-majority nation applies one or more of these systems — formally or informally — through:

Criminal law
Family law
Education
Blasphemy enforcement
Apostasy rulings
Judicial systems

This post gives you the real map of modern Sharia — country by country — based on the dominant school, how it's enforced, and what it means for reformers, women, minorities, and non-Muslims.

🧭 Country-by-Country: School + Application Summary

🇸🇦 Saudi Arabia

School: Hanbali (Salafi/Wahhabi interpretation)
System: Sharia-based monarchy
Key Traits:

No constitution — Quran and Sunnah = state law
Women require male guardianship
Apostasy, blasphemy, sorcery = death
Non-Muslims banned from Mecca/Medina
No churches, synagogues, or temples permitted

📌 Hardline Hanbali literalism + oil wealth = theocracy with global reach

🇮🇷 Iran

School: Ja’fari (Twelver Shia)
System: Shia theocracy under Wilayat al-Faqih
Key Traits:

Apostasy = death (especially Sunni converts)
Blasphemy = hanging or stoning
Forced hijab, morality police
Non-Muslims legally tolerated, but Baha’is banned
Mut’ah (temporary marriage) legalized
Shia clerics control parliament and judiciary

📌 Sharia + revolutionary ideology = legalized persecution and surveillance

🇵🇰 Pakistan

School: Hanafi (Deobandi & Barelvi variants)
System: Dual: Sharia + colonial common law
Key Traits:

Blasphemy laws with mandatory death penalty (295-C)
Apostasy culturally punished, not always codified
Hudood Ordinances based on Hanafi fiqh
Forced conversions of Hindu/Christian girls
Islamic law courts override civil courts in many regions

📌 Blasphemy weaponized by mobs — vigilantism with legal cover

🇦🇫 Afghanistan

School: Hanafi (Taliban interpretation)
System: Sharia-only under Taliban
Key Traits:

Apostasy = death
No schooling for girls past 6th grade
Taliban courts enforce public floggings and executions
Total ban on proselytizing, Bible possession, or public dissent

📌 Hanafi law + militant power = de facto 7th-century legal system

🇹🇷 Turkey

School: Hanafi (historical)
System: Officially secular (under Atatürk) → Islamizing under Erdoğan
Key Traits:

Sharia courts abolished (1920s), but Hanafi influence remains in family law
Apostasy legal, but blasphemy laws revived (Article 216)
Hijab ban reversed in public institutions
Islam increasingly merged with state under Diyanet (religious authority)

📌 Gradual Islamization = legal duality with rising Hanafi application

🇪🇬 Egypt

School: Shafi’i (dominant), some Hanafi
System: Civil-Sharia hybrid
Key Traits:

Apostasy not criminalized in penal code — but results in loss of rights
Blasphemy laws enforced (Article 98)
Al-Azhar controls theological rulings
Christian converts to Islam recognized — reverse conversion blocked
Sharia defines personal status, family law

📌 Sharia deeply embedded in “civil” structure

🇮🇩 Indonesia

School: Shafi’i
System: Secular constitution + Sharia overlays (especially in Aceh province)
Key Traits:

Aceh: public floggings for zina, alcohol, homosexuality
National blasphemy law (Article 156a) used against critics
Ahmadiyyas & Shiites persecuted
Apostasy not criminalized, but socially punished
Women’s dress code enforced regionally

📌 Democracy + creeping Sharia = double system

🇲🇾 Malaysia

School: Shafi’i
System: Dual legal system — civil + Sharia for Muslims
Key Traits:

Apostasy illegal in most states (fines, prison, forced rehabilitation)
Blasphemy & insult to Islam = criminal
Interfaith marriages, religious identity heavily regulated
Sharia courts have expanding jurisdiction over personal/family law

📌 Islam legally privileged — non-Muslims restricted by Muslim laws

🇳🇬 Nigeria (North)

School: Maliki (northern states), with Hanafi influences
System: Dual system — Sharia + common law
Key Traits:

12 northern states use Maliki-based Sharia for Muslims
Amputations, stonings, and floggings have been applied
Blasphemy = capital punishment (e.g., 2020: singer sentenced to death)
Apostasy not prosecuted federally but punished regionally

📌 State-level Sharia = legal apartheid

🇲🇦 Morocco

School: Maliki
System: Monarch-led religious authority + civil-Sharia fusion
Key Traits:

Apostasy not criminalized, but missionary work banned
Islamic family code (Moudawana) heavily favors men
Blasphemy criminalized under “offending Islam” laws
King holds title “Commander of the Faithful”

📌 Reformist language — Maliki law remains underneath

🇹🇳 Tunisia

School: Maliki
System: Largely secular with Sharia influence in family law
Key Traits:

Civil code overrides most Sharia in criminal law
Apostasy legal; blasphemy discouraged but not punished
Equal inheritance proposals blocked by religious councils
Imams monitored for political preaching

📌 One of the least theocratic, but still under Maliki social ethics

🇸🇩 Sudan

School: Maliki
System: Sharia-leaning hybrid (previously full Sharia under Bashir)
Key Traits:

Apostasy law repealed in 2020, reinstated by Islamist factions in 2023
Stoning, flogging, and amputations used under prior regimes
Religious police operated until recently

📌 Legal chaos = Sharia law can return at any moment

🇦🇱 Albania, 🇧🇦 Bosnia, 🇽🇰 Kosovo

School: Hanafi (historically Ottoman)
System: Secular constitution
Key Traits:

No Sharia courts
Personal law fully secularized
Islam practiced culturally, not legally

📌 Legacy Hanafi, but not legally enforced

🧠 Summary Chart (Condensed)

Country	Dominant School	Apostasy Law	Blasphemy Law	Sharia Courts?	Women's Rights
Saudi Arabia	Hanbali	Death	Death	Yes (national)	Male guardianship
Iran	Ja’fari	Death	Death	Yes (national)	Forced hijab
Pakistan	Hanafi	Cultural death	Death	Yes (parallel)	Inequality + forced marriage cases
Indonesia	Shafi’i	Social penalty	Criminal	Regional (Aceh)	Varies by province
Egypt	Shafi’i	Civil loss	Criminal	Yes (family law)	Male-biased inheritance
Malaysia	Shafi’i	Illegal	Criminal	Yes (dual system)	Male legal priority
Nigeria (North)	Maliki	Yes	Yes	Yes (state-level)	Floggings, forced marriage rulings
Tunisia	Maliki	Legal	Discouraged	Yes (family only)	Partial equality
Turkey	Hanafi	Legal	Criminal (reviving)	No (but growing influence)	Civil code still dominant

✅ Final Word

Sharia is not an abstract theology — it's a codified legal system, and every Muslim-majority country applies it, formally or informally.

Whether it's:

Saudi’s amputations,
Iran’s apostasy rulings,
Pakistan’s blasphemy mobs,
Malaysia’s dual courts, or
Egypt’s Sharia-based family law…

The schools of jurisprudence are not history.
They are the operating systems of entire nations — and their victims are real.

Know the school. Know the system.
Know what’s coming when the mask slips.