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Oman Judicial System
Oman's legal system is based on the Ibadi
interpretation of
the sharia (Islamic law), which is similar to that of the
four
orthodox schools of Sunni Islam
(see Sunni Islam
, ch. 1).
Jurisprudence is administered regionally by the
wali, in
conjunction with the qadi, a judge who has attained that
position
either by graduating from an Islamic law college or by
taking
advanced study with local religious experts. Although
primarily
guided by the sharia, the system aims at arriving at a
fair
decision or compromise acceptable to all parties.
Invariably,
tribal law has become mixed with religious law. Modern
commercial
law, borrowed from other parts of the Middle East and
Europe,
also operates in the business sphere.
Data as of January 1993
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