Positive Law from the Muslim World: Jurisprudence, History, Practices (Law in Context)

"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 common-sense understanding: positive law. Parallel to Western societies in which it firstly emerged, the concept of positive law developed in many places, including countries characterized as Muslim. There, it faced other existing normativities, like customs and the Sharia. This book aims, from the Muslim world's perspective, to clarify the uses of the concept of law and the ways of studying it, to describe some of its historical developments, including the ideas of constitutional law, customary law and forensic evidence, and to describe present-day practices, including reference to law sources, rules and interpretation."--Back cover 05.0_pp_ix_x_Dedication 06.0_pp_xi_xiii_Contents 07.0_pp_xiv_xvi_Acknowledgments 08.0_pp_1_26_Introduction_Law_Properly_So_Called_from_an_Islamic_Vantage_Point 09.0_pp_27_96_The_Concept_of_Law 09.1_pp_29_52_Law_as_a_Concept 09.2_pp_53_75_The_Great_Divide_in_Legal_Discourse_Toward_a_Global_Historical_Ontology_of_the_Concept_of_Positive_L 09.3_pp_76_96_Legal_Praxeology_Into_Perspective_and_into_Practice 10.0_pp_97_174_Historical_Ontologies 10.1_pp_99_131_Politics_Made_into_Law_Determinism_and_Contingency_in_Moroccan_Constitutionalism 10.2_pp_132_153_The_Legal_Reification_of_the_Mind_The_Development_of_Forensic_Psychiatry_in_Egyptian_Law_and_Justice 10.3_pp_154_174_From_Urf_to_Qanun_Urfi_The_Legal_Positivization_of_Customs 11.0_pp_175_252_Legal_Praxeologies 11.1_pp_177_193_General_and_Particular_The_Legal_Rule_and_an_Islamic_Swimsuit_in_a_Secular_Context 11.2_pp_194_218_Filling_Gaps_in_Legislation_The_Use_of_Fiqh_in_Contemporary_Courts_in_Morocco_Egypt_and_Indonesia 11.3_pp_219_252_Playing_by_the_Rules_The_Search_for_Legal_Grounds_in_Homosexuality_Cases_Indonesia_Lebanon_Egypt_and 12.0_pp_253_262_Conclusion_A_Praxeological_Approach_to_Positive_Law 13.0_pp_263_276_Notes 14.0_pp_277_298_Bibliography 15.0_pp_299_312_Index Proposing a better way to study and discuss legal phenomena and examples of their unfolding in the Muslim world, this book explores the core concept of positive law as seen from its Islamic historical and cultural fringes. Dupret explores how the concept of positive law operated in the Muslim world.