Because of the religious origin of the word, some prefer to capitalize it and others not. The word sharia means  the path  or  the path to wate r. Sharia as a source of law, is, by definition, arbitrary and discretionary-some would prefer to describe it as flexible.
COUNTRY OVERVIEW. LOCATION AND SIZE. Qatar is a tiny peninsula jutting into the Persian Gulf and bordering only Saudi Arabia. With an area of 11,437 square kilometers (4,416 square miles) and a short coastline of 563 kilometers (345 miles), Qatar is slightly smaller than the state of Connecticut.
It was officially declared as the country's capital in 1971, when Qatar gained independence. As the commercial capital of Qatar and one of the emergent financial centers in the Middle East, Doha is considered a world city by the Globalization and World Cities Research Network.oha (Arabic: Ø§ÙØ¯ÙØ­Ø© â, ad-Dawá¸¥a or ad-DÅá¸¥a, literally in MSA : the big tree, locally: rounded bays) is the capital city and most populous city of the State of Qatar. Doha has a population of 900,545 within the city proper. The city is located on the coast of the Persian Gulf in the east of the country.