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Islam emerged directly after the dissolution of a Jewish kingdom that spread into western Saudi Arabia, and was perhaps influenced by this kingdom and by gnostic christianity. Sharia law nevertheless, although influenced by Judaic law, seems to have been a middle-eastern construct, evident in earlier middle-eastern civilisations. Except, in these earlier cultures, death was rarely the punishment for breaking rules.

Islam gains its legitimacy from historical context-believing that its ideas are from and in the past, of a mythical time that involved Abraham and Moses.  It believes time provides validity. If Abraham existed, there is little genuine evidence, even in the Torah, for monotheistic belief. It is equally difficult to find such belief in the narrative of Moses. Of course, the ten commandments were far more than ten, and even so it merely replicates Babylonian laws of the same or of an earlier period.