re: #420 ladycatnip

#214 iceweasel

The big difference between the two is we have no ruling law derived from the OT as there is from the koran, which is sharia.

One of the purposes of the oral law or Talmud is that it makes clearer the meaning and application behind many of the terse or obscure statements in Torah. I don’t think there is anything equivalent to the Talmud in Islam, at least not in terms of its breadth and depth of coverage. If there were, and the laws of the Koran had been endlessly discussed and debated in a similarly Talmudic fashion, perhaps things would be different, but then Islam would be a somewhat different religion.