Book contents
- Positive Law from the Muslim World
- The Law in Context Series
- Positive Law from the Muslim World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Law Properly So Called, from an Islamic Vantage Point
- Part I The Concept of Law
- Part II Historical Ontologies
- Part III Legal Praxeologies
- Conclusion: A Praxeological Approach to Positive Law
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Conclusion: A Praxeological Approach to Positive Law
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 June 2021
- Positive Law from the Muslim World
- The Law in Context Series
- Positive Law from the Muslim World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Law Properly So Called, from an Islamic Vantage Point
- Part I The Concept of Law
- Part II Historical Ontologies
- Part III Legal Praxeologies
- Conclusion: A Praxeological Approach to Positive Law
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Concentrating on the concept of law and its “glocal” translations, this book advocates a praxeological sociohistorical jurisprudence. It seeks to bypass at least two dichotomies opposing, on the one hand, lawyers’ law in books and anthropologists’ law in action, and, on the other, positivist and realist sociolegal theories. From such a perspective, law is a concept whose historical and practical ontology can be studied through the positivization process that transformed it into a major social engineering tool. The book is a contribution to the praxeological sociohistorical study of positive law, in both its global and its local dimensions. It approaches the subject from the viewpoint of Muslim societies. In other words, it addresses the phenomenon of positive law from the perspective of societies in which Islamic norms had an all-pervading though diverse influence. It shows both how positive law “glocalized” in societies characterized as Muslim and how, by the same token, Islamic norms became positivized.
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- Positive Law from the Muslim WorldJurisprudence, History, Practices, pp. 253 - 262Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021