Law

sariya (an Arabic loanword sharing its root with ‘Sharia’) is the standard term for the Mosaic Law/Torah and for law generally. Given Fulani Islamic scholarly tradition’s deep engagement with Sharia as a comprehensive legal-religious system, this term usefully parallels Paul’s argument about the Law’s demands, provided the curriculum still distinguishes the Mosaic Law’s specific redemptive-historical role from a Sharia-style total life-code.