Role of religion and Islamic law

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Because Islamic law mixes norms that can be observed, and thus sanctioned, by society with norms that only address the individual believer's conscience, and this can neither be observed nor sanctioned by society, it is not a proper legal system and cannot be analysed in purely legal terms.

False

Weber's concept of sacred law compasses only Islamic law, but not Hindu, Jewish or Christian religious law, which he deems to be more rational than Islamic law.

False

Weber's concept of sacred law stresses formal irrationality by which he means that there is:

an emphasis on individual justice in a particular case rather than abstract general principles; no easy methodology to create new arms; a circumscribed role of rational critique.
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What is an important characteristic of sacred law?

Its inability to be easily changed based on human needs.

The failure of Ottoman Tanzimat to produce the same results as the Japanese legal reform is due to its reliance on

Religious law

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