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Chibli Mallat, Introduction to Middle Eastern Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007 (reprinted 2009), 455 p.

Chibli Mallat, Introduction to Middle Eastern Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007... Faris Nasrallah* Across all social science disciplines, there exist works of vital relevance for understanding the history, operation and future of a given field. It is the aim of such studies to uncover hitherto unknown facts, debates and rationales and to chart the worth and continued relevance of civilizational approaches to knowledge and learning. The study of law is no exception and in his Introduction to Middle Eastern Laws, Mallat has sought to elevate the vast laws and legal customs of this region into a discernable entity, worthy of continued and indeed much needed further study. While Mallat himself contends that "it should be increasingly difficult to keep Middle Eastern law at bay in any global or comprehensive comparative exercise, even if the field needs to develop considerably before it becomes natural or sound to include it in the growing comparative law discipline", (Preface, xiii) the outright aim of the book is to instigate "the discovery of a legal continent" (Preface, xii). Drawing on nothing less than a museum of codes, calques and resources as well as a comprehensive review of existing literature and case law, this book is a more than ample building block for that discovery. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law Online Brill

Chibli Mallat, Introduction to Middle Eastern Law, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2007 (reprinted 2009), 455 p.

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Publisher
Brill
Copyright
Copyright 2011 by Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1384-2935
eISSN
2211-2987
DOI
10.1163/22112987-90000027
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Abstract

Faris Nasrallah* Across all social science disciplines, there exist works of vital relevance for understanding the history, operation and future of a given field. It is the aim of such studies to uncover hitherto unknown facts, debates and rationales and to chart the worth and continued relevance of civilizational approaches to knowledge and learning. The study of law is no exception and in his Introduction to Middle Eastern Laws, Mallat has sought to elevate the vast laws and legal customs of this region into a discernable entity, worthy of continued and indeed much needed further study. While Mallat himself contends that "it should be increasingly difficult to keep Middle Eastern law at bay in any global or comprehensive comparative exercise, even if the field needs to develop considerably before it becomes natural or sound to include it in the growing comparative law discipline", (Preface, xiii) the outright aim of the book is to instigate "the discovery of a legal continent" (Preface, xii). Drawing on nothing less than a museum of codes, calques and resources as well as a comprehensive review of existing literature and case law, this book is a more than ample building block for that discovery.

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Yearbook of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law OnlineBrill

Published: Jan 1, 2011

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