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Pour comprendre les logiques de la constitutionnalisation de l'Islam dans les paysarabes, cette étude propose, dans la première partie, de mettre en évidence la permanence del'influence constitutionnelle de l'Islam. En effet, toutes les constitutions des Etats arabes, àl'exception de celle du Liban, se réfèrent à l'Islam. La place prééminente qu'occupe cettereligion dans les textes fondamentaux arabes influe effectivement sur la structure etl'organisation de l'Etat, mais également la protection des droits fondamentaux, en particuliercelle relative à la liberté religieuse.Dans la seconde partie, on a essayé de mettre en exergue les voies qui permettent aux Etatsarabes de dépasser la vision théologique sur laquelle repose leur droit constitutionnel.L'accent est mis sur deux tendances : la sécularisation progressive du pouvoir politique àtravers la marginalisation du référent religieux et la consécration du pouvoir étatique d'unepart, et la rationalisation constitutionnelle à travers le renforcement du rôle de la justiceconstitutionnelle et l'éveil de la société civile d'autre part. En définitive, ces développementsposent les clés de compréhension de l'actualité juridique et politique. A l'heure du« Printemps arabe », ces deux référents, Islam et Droit constitutionnel, s'imbriquent pourformer la trame de la vie politique et juridique des peuples arabes. Leur dialogue semblenécessaire ou évident d'autant plus que les Révolutions n'ont pas abouti à la consécrationd'un modèle laïc et la place de l'Islam se trouve maintenue, voire renforcée. / To understand the logics of the constitutionalization of the Islam in the Arab world,this study suggests, at first, highlighting the continuity of the constitutional influence of theIslam. Indeed, all the constitutions of Arab states, with the exception of that of the Lebanon,refer to the Islam. The important constitutional role of that religion actually affects thestructure and organization of the state, but also the determination of the protection offundamental liberties of man, especially that relating to freedom of religion.Secondly, it is advisable to highlight the ways which allow Arab States to overtake thetheological vision of the constitutional law. The accent is put on two trends: the progressivesecularization of the political power through the marginalization of the religious referent andthe consecration of the state power on one hand, and the constitutional rationalization throughthe strengthening of the role of the constitutional justice and the awakening of the civil societyon the other hand. After all, these developments put the keys of understanding of the legal andpolitical current events. At the time of the "Arab Spring", these two referents, Islam andConstitutional law, are linked to form the political and legal life of the Arabic peoples. Theirdialogue seems necessary or obvious especially as the Revolutions did not end in theconsecration of a laic model and the place of the Islam is maintained, even strengthened.

This study analyses the treatment of Islamic law (Fiqh) under the English legal system by looking into the developments in waqf law in British India. It has the dual objective of analysing the impact of the English legal system upon Islamic law, and determining the role of various actors in this process. It argues that waqf law was transformed in order to fit into the state structure. The colonial state used the techniques of translation, adjudication, legislation and teaching in order to transform Islamic law. Adjudication was preferred over legislative codification as a mode of governance and rule making because of its flexibility. The translation of classical Islamic legal texts, the Hidāya and certain parts of the Fatāwā al-‘Ālamgīriyya, relieved English judges of the need for a reliance on local legal advisors. However, Muslim lawyers, judges, legal commentators, and some religious scholars (‘ulamā’) simultaneously collaborated and negotiated with, and resisted colonial administrators in the process of legal transformation. As adjudication was a preferred mode of transformation, legal commentaries played a crucial role in legal developments. A majority of legal commentators were Muslims, such as Ameer Ali, Abdur Rahim and Faiz Tyabji. They used their legal treatises to resist any colonial intervention in Islamic law. Although English educated Muslims replaced ‘ulamā’ as cultural intermediaries between the state and society, this did not eliminate the role of ‘ulamā’ as the custodians of Islamic law. They established closer links with society and issued fatāwā (legal opinions) on legal issues. Fatāwā were sought regarding every important aspect of waqf law, from the validity of family awqāf to the management of awqāf and the permissibility of awqāf of movables such as shares of companies. ‘Ulamā’ also lobbied for the enforcement of Islamic law in order to promote women’s rights of inheritance and to get a divorce. This study finds that Anglo-Muhammadan law was a product of interaction between various sections of Muslim society and colonial administrators. It reflected the socio-political context of colonial India and the process of negotiations between divergent interest holders. Despite replacing the traditional institutional structure, the overall legal system became more inclusive. It could interact with various stakeholders and represent them in the process of law making in order to respond to social change.

Islamic Jurisprudence comprises of the laws that govern a Muslims daily life. The Prophet Muhammad explained and practically demonstrated these laws. The jurists studied the Quran and the Prophet's life and they adopted a refined methodology which they used to extract legal rulings and verdicts. This methodology is known as the Principles of Jurisprudence. The jurists expanded on this methodology with some differences among them on the usage and the application of some aspects as acceptable forms of evidence. Eventually, the Muslim world was left with four schools of jurisprudence that are present to this day. There are differences between these schools on some issues but these differences never caused conflict, instead it provided us with a wealth of knowledge. We need to study these schools and its principles together with the objectives and intent of the Shariah and utilize this to find solutions to all new issues that arise. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M. A. (Islamic Studies)

This thesis examines the role that scholarly digests and commentaries played in the formation of legal rules in the Muslim legal institution known as the madhhab. I posit that a shared approach to legal rule-determination, and the respect of juristic precedent that it entails, underlies the jurisprudential processes of all of the four post-classical Sunni madhhabs (the Ḥanafī, Mālikī, Shāfi'ī, and Ḥanbalī), and unites them in a wider ‘madhhab-law tradition’. Taking the Ḥanafī madhhab as a case study, the thesis analyses a commentary written by the late Mamluk jurist Ibn Quṭlūbughā (d. 879/1474) upon the digest of the celebrated Abbasid-era Abū al-Ḥusayn al-Qudūrī (d. 428/1037). In discussing the madhhab's heritage of precedent, Ibn Quṭlūbughā's commentary weaves an intricate tapestry of quotations and references from previous jurists and works, providing us with insight into how author-scholars reacted to, and interacted with, other jurists over space and time. Chapter 1 provides a short introduction to the lives of Qudūrī and Ibn Quṭlūbughā, and the contexts within which they produced their works. Chapter 2 employs both quantitative and qualitative analysis of the commentary, in order to deduce historical and geographical patterns out of which a periodisation of rule-determination in the Ḥanafī madhhab is proposed. In Chapter 3, Ibn Quṭlūbughā's jurisprudential theory of rule-determination is studied, examining both the justifications and the processes employed by jurists in arriving at a legal rule in the Ḥanafī madhhab. Chapter 4 then turns to the craft of commentary itself, analysing over eighty case examples for the logical relationships, rhetorical devices, and legal arguments that inform the actual practice of rule-determination through commentary. A final chapter then summarises the conclusions, and situates them within a broader discussion as to the nature of the madhhab-law tradition.

La langue arabe est un des outils essentiels à l’analyse des données scripturaires à caractère juridique. C’est pourquoi les jurisconsultes musulmans ont développé dans leurs traités sur la méthodologie juridique, une linguistique qui n’a rien à envier à celle des grammairiens arabes classiques. Le "Muhtasar" d’ Ibn al- Hâğib est une des références en la matière. Ce travail vise d’une part, à déterminer le rôle de la langue arabe dans l’interprétation du Coran et de la Sunna. D’autre part, il tient à éclairer les procédés analytiques mis en œuvre par les usulistes dont ibn al- Hâğib en vue d’une analyse globale du discours. / The Arabic language is one of the main Tools to analyze oly legal elements. That’s why, the Muslim lawyers developed across their treatises about the legal methodology a part of linguistic that has nothing to envy to the classical Arabic grammar Works. The Ibn al- Hağib’s "Muhtasar" is one of the references in this field. This work aims to determine the Arabic language’s contribution in t e Koran and Sunna’s interpretation. On the other hand, it also holds to light up the analytic processes implemented by the usûl al-fiqh writers like Ibn al- Hâğib in scope to a global analysis of the speech.

Au Canada, en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis, on voit de nombreux groupes religieux prendre des initiatives susceptibles d'influencer les règles qui régissent la société civile. Pour certains, cette instrumentalisation de la religion à des fins politiques ébranle l'exercice des libertés et des droits fondamentaux. Dernièrement, les médias ont beaucoup parlé de la création des tribunaux d'arbitrage musulman appliquant le droit musulman pour régler des litiges d'ordre familial et financier au Canada, l'Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis. En fait, l'idée voulant que les parties privées s'entendent de leur plein gré pour soumettre leurs différends religieux islamique à un arbitre religieux musulman appliquant le droit musulman n'est pas nouvelle. à titre d'exemple, plusieurs communautés juives ont mis en place des tribunaux d'arbitrage rabbinique, chargés de régler les différends d'ordre civil entre particuliers juifs en vertu du droit rabbinique. C’est exactement ce précédent qui a incité des communautés musulmanes à emboîter le pas.Pour mieux comprendre les tenants et aboutissants de ces questions, nous avons choisi d'explorer l'arbitrage du point de vue interne, c’est à dire du point de vue des sources islamiques, pour ensuite l'examiner du point de vue externe, c’est à dire du point de vue de l'ordre juridique étatique dans lequel il est appelé à s'insérer (liberté de religion et le multiculturalisme). Le fonctionnement des tribunaux d'arbitrage musulmans mérite un examen attentif. Il conviendra donc de s’interroger sur le processus d'arbitrage, la reconnaissance et l’exécution des sentences arbitrales islamiques et sur le rôle de l'ordre public en la matière, avec l'idée d'envisager d'un point de vue normatif, un dialogue constructif et inclusif. / In Canada, England and United States, many religious groups have been organizing to implement policies that would influence the manner in which civil society is run. It has been argued that this use of religion for political gain threatens to undermine hard won entitlements to equality and basic human rights. Much media has recently focused on the issue of the formation of arbitration islamic tribunals that would use Islamic Law to settle familiy and financial matters in Canada, England and United States. In fact, the idea of privates parties voluntarily agreeing to have their islamic religious disputes resolved by an muslim arbitrator using the islamic law is not new. For example, other religious groups including several Jewish communities have created Jewish arbitration tribunals in order to resolve civil matters between individuals using Talmudic law, and setting a precedent for Muslim communities to do the same.After having explored arbitration from an internal perspective, in other words from islamic sources, we will examine this from an external perspective, in other words the national legal system into which it must be inserted (Religious Freedom and Multiculturalism). The functioning of islamic arbitration tribunals merits close examination. This therefore raises questions as to the arbitration process, the recognition and enforcement of islamic arbitral awards, and on the role of public policy in this respect, with the idea to envisage from a normative perspective, a constructive and inclusive dialogue

Appelé à traduire conjointement les exigences conceptuelles d’une orthodoxie sunnite qui s’est désignée comme le dépositaire de la Vérité monothéiste, les exigences identitaires d’une Ûmma islamique soucieuse de s’inscrire au sein de l’évolution monothéiste de l’humanité et les revendications d’une institution califale préoccupée à consolider sa légitimité "précaire", le fiqh se présente sous la plume des auteurs musulmans comme un canevas idéel, authentique et sacralisé. Ainsi, considéré comme le support architecte d’al-Ûmma, le droit musulman n’allait pas seulement se détacher de de ses origines préislamique, et notamment celles qui seraient dues à une Rome érigée en symbole de l’égarement monothéiste, il allait également échapper aux principes, jugés faillibles, de la raison humaine et s’accommoder au référentiel mythologisé de la pensée qui l’a établi. / Called to translate jointly the abstract requirements of a Sunni orthodoxy which introduced itself as theagent of the monotheist Truth, the identical requirements of an Islamic Ûmma worried of joining within the monotheist evolution of the humanity and the claiming of a califale institution worried to strengthen its "precarious" legitimacy, the fiqh appears under the feather of the Muslim authors as an authentic and sacred pattern. So, considered as the support of the Ûmma, the Islamic law was not only going to give up its preislamic origins, and particularly those who would be due in Rome, set up as symbol of the monotheist wrongness; it was also going to escape the principles of the human reason and adapt the mythical reference of the thought who established it. By the analyzing of the Rome’s idea through the papers of the medieval fûqaha, this study tries to read the islamic law through its effective historicity and to understand the various factor and the circumstances which built it.

Islamic Jurisprudence comprises of the laws that govern a Muslims daily life. The Prophet Muhammad explained and practically demonstrated these laws. The jurists studied the Quran and the Prophet's life and they adopted a refined methodology which they used to extract legal rulings and verdicts. This methodology is known as the Principles of Jurisprudence. The jurists expanded on this methodology with some differences among them on the usage and the application of some aspects as acceptable forms of evidence. Eventually, the Muslim world was left with four schools of jurisprudence that are present to this day. There are differences between these schools on some issues but these differences never caused conflict, instead it provided us with a wealth of knowledge. We need to study these schools and its principles together with the objectives and intent of the Shariah and utilize this to find solutions to all new issues that arise. / Religious Studies and Arabic / M. A. (Islamic Studies)