Shari’a commercial law in the modern world

Since the shari’a commercial system was dismantled many years ago, we cannot be entirely sure what the shari’a was nor how it was practiced. We have texts which were written by the jurists, but controversy surrounds the issue of the degree to which they reflected the law in action; our best source of information, the participants in the system died many years ago; records relevant to practice are sparse for most periods, and where they do exist only a few of them have been researched [1]