Is Islamic law largely derivative of Catholic canon law?

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Not really, no.

For one thing, your postulated point of contact, Al Andalus, was on the order of 6,000 KM overland from the center of the Islamic world in Baghdad. If they wanted to borrow legal ideas from the Christian world, their next-door neighbors, the (Eastern Orthodox) Byzantines would be a far better choice than the remote, and at the time impoverished, barely literate, and relatively lawless Western Europeans.

For another, the chief written sources of Islamic law were the Koran and the Hadith (sayings of of The Prophet). Islamic scholars were quite ruthless in rooting out "law" that couldn't claim any basis in those two things, and even in rooting out faked elements of the Hadith. Taking anything from an infidel barbarian's law book would be right out.

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