Legal orders of the Ottoman world and its Arab successors, where qanun, the ruler's secular law, ran beside Islamic law, and where modern states such as the United Arab Emirates keep a federal court structure with Islamic and civil elements. A legal system belongs here when its cited article describes the Ottoman Empire's law, qanun, or a modern Gulf judicial system. It excludes the groups for Islamic law proper.
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Law of the Ottoman Empire (Wikipedia)
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The Qanun or Kanun, sultanic law, co-existed with religious law (mainly the Hanafi school of Islamic jurisprudence).
Qanun (law) (Wikipedia)
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Qanun or Kanun is an Arabic term that refers to laws established by Muslim sovereigns, especially the body of administrative, economic and criminal law promulgated by Ottoman sultans.
Judicial system of the United Arab Emirates (Wikipedia)
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The UAE is a civil law jurisdiction, hence unlike common law jurisdictions, legal proceedings in the UAE do not rely on precedents, although sometimes the judgments of higher courts can be applied by lower courts in cases with similar facts. The emirates of Abu Dhabi and Dubai also have common law courts that adjudicate commercial cases in financial free zones, with both emirates allowing local businesses to opt-in to the jurisdiction of the common law courts for business contracts.
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