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Author:   Baudouin Dupret
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.80cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.610kg
ISBN:  

9781108845212

ISBN 10:   1108845215
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   24 June 2021
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Law properly so-called, from an Islamic vantage point: an introduction; Part I. The Concept of Law: 1. Law as a concept; 2. The great divide in legal discourse: towards a global historical ontology of the concept of positive law; 3. Legal praxeology: into perspective and into practice; Part II. Historical Ontologies: 4. Politics made into law: determinism and contingency in Moroccan constitutionalism; 5. The legal reification of the mind: the development of forensic psychiatry in Egyptian law and justice; 6. From 'urf to qânûn 'urfî: the legal positivization of customs; Part III. Legal Praxeologies: 7. General and particular: the legal rule and an Islamic swimsuit in a secular context; 8. Filling gaps in legislation: the use of fiqh in contemporary courts in Morocco, Egypt, and Indonesia; 9. Playing by the rules: the search for legal grounds in homosexuality cases (Indonesia, Lebanon, Egypt, Senegal); Conclusion – a praxeological approach to positive law; Bibliography; Index.

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Baudouin Dupret is research director at the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, based in the Les Afriques dans le Monde research center of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux. He is the author of Practices of Truth (2011), Adjudication in Action (2011) and What Is the Sharia? (2017). He also co-edited Law at Work (2015) and Legal Rules in Practice (2020).

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