1. INTRODUCTION:
THE WEST AND ISLAM: JURIDICAL CATEGORIES IN A TRANSITIONAL GLOBAL SCENARIO
01. A global space for a global challenge
02. Avoiding universalization and defining a new approach: legal categories
03. Methodology of research
04. Definitions and terminology
05. Preliminary notions about shari?a
2. CHAPTER I:
SOVEREIGNTY AND UNIVERSALISM AFTER WESTPHALIA
01. The State and the ummah: a premise
02. State and dawla
03. Structural elements of the State narrative in the West
04. Universalism in Islam: shari?a and ummah
05. Conclusions: transnationalism, universalism, territoriality
3. CHAPTER II:
THE LEVIATHAN AND THE CALIPH BETWEEN AUTHORITY AND LAW
01. Premise
02. The khalifah and the factual idea of Islamic power
03. Authority and law
04. Personification of power in the West
05. Personification of power in Islam
06. Legitimacy and legitimation of power
06.1. External legitimacy
06.2. Internal legitimacy: normative and descriptive dimensions
06.3. Conclusive remarks on legitimation
4. CHAPTER III:
LAW, SHARI?A AND HUMAN REASON
01. Premise
02. Preliminary considerations about law and creation
03. Law, shari?a, qanun: a question of reason
03.1. Law and reason in the West
03.2. Reason, shari?a and fiqh in Islam
03.3. The case of qanun between Islam and the West
03.4. Conclusive remarks about law, shari?a and reason
04. Law and shari?a between form and substance
04.1. Form and substance in the West
04.2. Forms and substance in Islam
05. Sources of law and roots of fiqh
5. CHAPTER IV:
SPIRITUAL COMMAND AND TEMPORAL RULE
01. The terms of the question
02. Shari?a as religious law
03. Authority and authorities: between secular command and spiritual guidance
03.1. Spiritual and temporal authorities in the West
03.2.Spiritual and temporal authorities in Islam
03.3.Conclusive remarks
04. Why to punish: a teleological analysis
04.1.Why to punish in the West
04.2.Why to punish in Islam
04.3.Conclusive remarks on punishment
6. CHAPTER V:
ENTERING INTO A DIALOG: FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE
01. Legal orders between imitation and colonization
02. Law and shari?a between space and time
03. Law and shari?a between morality and coerciveness
03.1. The conceptual extensions of law and shari?a
03.2. Bindingness between law and shari?a
03.3. Enforceability, law, shari?a
04. Shari?a, law and constitution
7. CONCLUSION:
NEW JURIDICAL INSTRUMENTS FOR A NEW WORLD
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.