Talk:Chériat

Source for spelling:

French form of "Sheriat", meaning Sharia, from the Turkish sherī'at/șeri'at. Used in Western languages in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. French has affinity with the late Ottoman Empire as it was used as a pan-Christian/Jewish language and was the empire's main language for dealing with foreigners (much as how English is used today). See Languages of the Ottoman Empire and Johann Strauss's sources on how French is important for that topic.

In older English-language law-related works in the late 19th/early 20th centuries, the word used for sharia was sheri.
 * - Number LXXXIV "The religious law of the Sheri, of which the ultimate source is the Koran,[...]" - A review of Corps de Droit Ottoman

It, along with the French variant chéri, was used during the time of the Ottoman Empire, and is from the Turkish şer’(i).
 * (info page on book at Martin Luther University) // Cited: p. 39 (PDF p. 41/338) // "“Chéri” may sound ambiguous in French but the term, used in our context for Islamic law (Turkish: şer’(i), is widely used in the legal literature at that time."

Note that while the source of this spelling was mostly written in French:
 * The introduction in Volume I was written in English
 * The author is British
 * It was published by Oxford University in the UK, not in France.

The idea of making an international audience book (as opposed to just a francophone audience) in French is a bit unheard of today, but in 1905 that's just how things went. WhisperToMe (talk) 22:17, 20 September 2019 (UTC)