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Juridical Perspectives between Islam and the West

A Tale of Two Worlds

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  • © 2023

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Authors:
  1. Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli

    1. Rome, Italy

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  • Focuses on the juridical perspectives that have helped to shape the Islamic and Western legal orders
  • Explores different visions regarding juridical spatiality and the role of human reason
  • Aims to build a new approach for analysis in fields such as legal comparativism, legal pluralism and constitutional law

Part of the book series: Global Issues (GLOISS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction: The West and Islam: Juridical Categories in a Transitional Global Scenario

    • Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli
    Pages 1-29

  3. Sovereignty and Universalism After Westphalia

    • Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli
    Pages 31-50

  4. The Leviathan and the Caliph Between Authority and Law

    • Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli
    Pages 51-93

  5. Law, Sharīʿa, and Human Reason

    • Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli
    Pages 95-147

  6. Spiritual Command and Temporal Rule

    • Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli
    Pages 149-183

  7. Entering into a Dialogue: From Theory to Practice

    • Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli
    Pages 185-230

  8. Conclusion: New Juridical Instruments for a New World

    • Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli
    Pages 231-240

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 241-276
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About this book

This comparative philosophy of law book aims at formulating a new analytical approach to the Islamic legal tradition based on ‘juridical categories’, a concept that facilitates comprehension and understanding of juridical phenomena. Building upon legal comparativism and legal pluralism, this project intends to avoid bias caused by universalizing Western categories when analyzing foreign juridical notions, which inevitably results in the miscomprehension of non-Western ideas and institutions. Unlike existing literature, this project will not focus on substantive comparisons between normative contents, but on the ‘juridical perspectives’ that helped to shape the Islamic and Western legal orders.The book focuses on the most relevant juridical questions regarding the Islamic and Western legal perspectives, such as the different visions regarding juridical spatiality, the role of human reason and the relationship between law, man and the divinity. While contributing to legal philosophy, this work intends also to develop and define a new interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide a starting point for novel analyses in research fields such as legal comparativism, legal pluralism, and constitutional law. Finally, by formulating a new interdisciplinary approach, it will provide a foundational discussion of a continuously evolving subject that will never be exhaustively explored. As such, it aims at broadening scholarly reflections on the relationship between the West and Islam, eventually placing these concepts within a suitably comprehensive and contextualized framework. 


"Published in cooperation with gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development, Hornchurch, Essex, United Kingdom".

Authors and Affiliations

  • Rome, Italy

    Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli

About the author

Federico Lorenzo Ramaioli, PhD, is an Italian diplomat and lawyer, presently serving as Deputy Head of the Mission of the Italian Embassy to Doha, Qatar. He is Senior Research Associate at gLAWcal. In the past, he worked for two years with the Catholic University of Milan in the fields of Philosophy of Law and Legal Methodology. After entering the diplomatic service, he continued his research activity in law, with particular reference to the Muslim world and to the Far East. He is the author of Islamic State as a Legal Order (Routledge, 2022) and has published various articles in peer-reviewed journals, including Journal of Comparative Law, Suffolk Law Review, Rivista della Cooperazione Giuridica Internazionale, and Orientalia Parthenopea.

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