Positive law from the Muslim world : jurisprudence, history, practices / Baudouin Dupret.

Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.

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Online Access: Full Text (via Cambridge)
Main Author: Dupret, Baudouin (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Series:Law in context.
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Table of Contents:
  • 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).