Siyasah shari`iyyah (lit. Administration, management) Policy or administrative justice created by the state. Fiqh is not elaborate in matters of public law and administration. Jurists adopted and assimilated local practices of public administration, even in such matters as the appointment of the head of state. This adoption was called siyasa. Its use is synonymous with public interest and general policy. Later, since such adoptions mostly related to criminal laws and penalties against the state, which were mostly not in strict accordance with fiqh or Shari‘ah, siyasa was understood as opposite or supplemental to Shari‘ah. It was often justified as a need of the state. Some Muslim jurists disagreed and called for public administration to accord with Shari‘ah, to be called al-Siyasa al-Shar’iyya