- Docente: Luca Mezzetti
- Credits: 9
- SSD: IUS/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
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Corso:
First cycle degree programme (L) in
Asian Languages, Markets and Cultures (cod. 0980)
Also valid for Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Law (cod. 0659)
Learning outcomes
The course of Islamic Law is finalized to offer to the students the knowledge of the historical trajectories followed by the evolution, under the constitutional and institutional profile, of the legal orders of the Countries characterized by a mayoritarian presence of a population of Islamic faith, in the vast area from Morocco to Indonesia, up to the recent experiences of "Arab springs." The course is also finalized to offer essential notions in some fundamental sectors of Islamic legal orders, as public law, civil and commercial law, family law, criminal law.
Course contents
The historical evolution of Islamic law. The State forms of Islamic Countries. Political regimes and forms of government of Islamic Countries. The law sources of Islamic law. Systems and models of constitutional justice in Islamic legal orders. The protection of fundamental rights in Islamic legal orders. Justice systems and models in Islamic Countries. Islamic civil and commercial law. Islamic family law. Islamic criminal law.
Readings/Bibliography
The texts to study for the preparation of the exam are:
L. Mezzetti, La libertà decapitata. Dalle Primavere arabe al Califfato, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2016.
L. Mezzetti, Codice delle Costituzioni islamiche, Cedam, Padova, 2016.
Teaching methods
Lectures will take place in the II semester and therefore students can try the examination starting from May 2017.
Assessment methods
The examination consists in an oral test.
Office hours
See the website of Luca Mezzetti