Legal drafting in Islamic law

Abstract

The paper analyzes the features of legal drafting in Islamic law. Based on the study, the author concludes that Muslim law appears to be in many ways religious and legal comments. This is set by its religious sources that contain specific legal provisions. These sources lack structuring and systematic character, which is a source of rather a high degree of casuistry of Islamic law. The paper proves that Islamic law has shown a confusion of religious principles with legal norms since the moment of its appearance. The comments of legal scholars were actively used to justify illegal — from the point of view of European lawyers — behavior. With the help of legal drafting in Islamic law, legal postulates and opinions were legalized, which to this day largely determine the legal culture of the overwhelming majority of the population. This means that the problem of the relationship between secular and confessional law in countries where Islam is the state religion appeared in the Middle Ages and remains the main one to this day.