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This book outlines a new taxonomy of the world's legal systems, combining the methods, principles and topics of legal history, legal theory and legal anthropology. This new taxonomy incorporates not only the existing legal systems of our contemporary world but also includes the historical legal systems of ancient Greece, Rome, Egypt and the Persian Empire. Legal systems based on religious ideologies like Hindu, Islamic, and Jewish laws also found their way into this truly global taxonomy. In addition, the tribal laws of Asia and Africa are also considered. The taxonomy is based on the sources of law and their legitimation in various systems, which are political law making, legal interpretation, or social consensus. The main argument of the book is organised around these three categories and their far-reaching implications in various systems of law. Showing the different ways legal systems interact with each other, the book introduces new categories like inter-system legal pluralism and composite systems. The final chapter makes use of network theories to explain how various legal systems operate with the help of their axioms and anthropologies.

This book presents a comparative analysis of the judiciary in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian legal systems. It compares postulations of legal theory to legal practice in order to show that social practice can diverge significantly from religious and legal principles. It thus provides a greater understanding of the real functions of religion in these legal systems, regardless of the dogmatic positions of the religions themselves. The judiciary is the focus of the study as it is the judge who is obliged to administer to legal texts while having to consider social realities being sometimes at variance with religious ethics and legal rules deriving from them. This book fills a gap in the literature examining Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian law and as such will open new possibilities for further studies in the field of comparative law. It will be a valuable resource for those working in the areas of comparative law, law and religion, law and society, and legal anthropology.

This book presents a comparative analysis of the judiciary in the Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian legal systems. It compares postulations of legal theory to legal practice in order to show that social practice can diverge significantly from religious and legal principles. It thus provides a greater understanding of the real functions of religion in these legal systems, regardless of the dogmatic positions of the religions themselves. The judiciary is the focus of the study as it is the judge who is obliged to administer to legal texts while having to consider social realities being sometimes at variance with religious ethics and legal rules deriving from them. This book fills a gap in the literature examining Islamic, Jewish and Zoroastrian law and as such will open new possibilities for further studies in the field of comparative law. It will be a valuable resource for those working in the areas of comparative law, law and religion, law and society, and legal anthropology.

Topics covered include the interaction of legal systems within a legal circle, inter-systemic interactions, reasons for the failure and success of legal modernization, legal pluralism, and its effects on Asian societies.