Table of Contents

Preface
1: From Islamic to Middle Eastern Law:a Restatement of the Field
I History
2: The Formation of Middle Eastern law
II Public Law
3: Introduction to the Contemporary Middle East
4: Constitutional Law: the Specificity of Middle Eastern Constitutionalism
5: Constitutional Review: the Spread of Constitutional Councils and Courts
6: Judicial Review
III Private Law
7: Introduction to the Age of Codification
8: Civil law: on Style and Substance
9: Commercial Law: Modernity and its Hiccups
10: Family Law: the Search for Gender Equality
11: Epilogue: Justice and Lawyering in the Middle East
Bibliography
Tables of Cases, legislation, Verses and Hadiths

About the Author

Chibli Mallat is Professor of Middle Eatsern Law and Politics at the University of Utah, the EU Jean Monnet Professor of Law at the Université Saint-Joseph, Beirut, and a Visiting Professor at Princeton University. In addition to his work in European law, he is a leading scholar of Islamic and Middle Eastern law, a legal practitioner, and a Former Director of the Centre of Islamic and Middle Eastern law at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the
University of London.