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).
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.
