All Islamic and Middle Eastern Civil Codifiers

Islamic and Middle Eastern Civil Codifiers gathers the jurists who codified civil law across the Ottoman Empire and the modern Middle East, above all the drafters of the Mecelle, the Ottoman Empire's late nineteenth century codification of Hanafi Islamic jurisprudence into a modern, European-style civil code, and the jurists who carried that codification tradition, and its later Arab civil code successors built on French civilian method, across Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and the Gulf states. Their work represents a third distinct path to civil codification, neither the French nor the German model but Islamic legal tradition recast in codified form.