ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to understand the ways in which revelation and divine injunctions have been conceived and implemented by Muslim scholars, who sought to establish norms for deciding the right action and conduct. The main question that will be tackled in this chapter is whether the Islamic ethico-legal tradition is fully compatible with Divine Command Theory (henceforth DCT) or is it compatible with some kind of Natural Law Theory (NLT)? I argue that any attempt to identify the nature of Islamic law is problematic, regardless of the fact that many Western and Muslim scholars seem to hold the view that Islamic law is fully compatible with DCT in ethics.
