Positive law from the Muslim world jurisprudence, history, practices

Can the concept of law be indiscriminately extended to times and places in which it did simply not exist? Such an extension is at best useless and at worst misleading. Producing an intelligible jurisprudence of the concept of law means keeping it within the reasonable boundaries of its contemporary...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Dupret, Baudouin, autor (autor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press 2021.
Colección:CUP ebooks.
The law in context series.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b45100561*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Law as a concept
  • The great divide in legal discourse : towards a global historical ontology of the concept of positive law
  • Legal praxeology : into perspective and into practice
  • Politics made into law : determinism and contingency in Moroccan constitutionalism
  • The legal reification of the mind : the development of forensic psychiatry in Egyptian law and justice
  • From 'urfto qânûn 'urfî : the legal positivization of customs
  • General and particular : the legal rule and an Islamic swimsuit in a secular context
  • Filling gaps in legislation : the use of fiqh in contemporary courts in Morocco, Egypt, and Indonesia
  • Playing by the rules : the search for legal grounds in homosexuality cases (Indonesia, Lebanon, Egypt, Senegal).