Islam developed and changed over time because of how Islam founded the prophet Muhammad in the 7th century. The two most important foundations of Islam is the Qur’an and the Sunnah. The Qur’an describes God’s moral teachings and the Sunnah is the example that Muhammad set throughout his lifetime. The Muslims that followed the Qur’an and Sunnah were allowed to follow the Five Pillars of Islam. The Muslims started to have expanded leaders that came across new situations that the Islamic Law had influenced. Islamic law (or Shari’ah Law) was beginning to be used in courts for Muslims because of that reason. By around the 19th century, Muslims started to go under European law so that Islamic law didn’t have as much power over them as before.

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