Legal Pluralism in the Arab World

Abstract

Part 1 Legal pluralism, normative plurality and the Arab world: the idea of legal pluralism, G. Woodman norms, law and practices - the practical obstacles that make it impossible to separate them, J.-N. Ferrie legal pluralism, normative plurality and the Arab world, B. Dupret a critical survey of western-law studies on Arab-Muslim countries, J. Thielmann. Part 2 A comparative perspective: contrasted identity claims before Egyptian and Belgian courts, M.-C. Foblets and B. Dupret Palestinian law - social segmentation versus centralization, B. Botiveau legal pluralism and cultural unity in Morocco, L. Rosen legal pluralism and public international law - an analysis based on the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, M. Paradelle the Shari'a and legal pluralism - the example of Syria, M. Berger the treatment of unfair terms in Arab countries - an investigation into the effects of legal pluralism, H. Gemei. Part 3 Legal pluralism and Egypt: an administrator`s nightmare - feuding families in the 19th-century Bahariyya Oasis, R. Peters the Haqq el-Arab - conflict resolution and distinctive features of legal pluralism in contemporary Egypt, S. Ben Nefissa the anarchy of Egyptian legal system - wearing away the legal and political modernity, N. Abd Al-Fattah legal pluralism and the enclosure of the legal field - the al-Muhajir case, N. Bernard-Maugiron legal plurality - reflection on the status of women in Egypt, N. Nassar formal and informal finance in Egypt - the significance for legal pluralism, Z. Bahaa-Eldin legal plurality and legitimation of human-rights abuses, A.S. Al-Islam Hamed the secular reconstruction of Islamic law - the Egyptian Constitutional Court and the battle over the veil in state-run schools, K. Balz.