TY - EJOUR A1 - Mouttalib, Sophia TI - Legislating before the Ottoman Constitutional Era - Law and Sovereign in the Political Thought of Islam T2 - Éthique, politique, religions 2021 – 1, n° 18. Philosophie politique et arts de gouverner à l’Âge classique de l’Islam JO - Éthique, politique, religions (ISSN 2271-7234), 18, 2021 – 1 DO - 10.15122/isbn.978-2-406-11576-2.p.0159 SN - 2271-7234 SP - 159 EP - 179 AB - This article studies the notion of “constitution” and approaches it as the extension of a long process of "positivization" of law, at work since the Classical Age of Islam. The establishment of a secular justice, the development of kānūn, the will to endow the State with a constitution : all these points attest to the irreducibility of pre modern and modern normativity to the idea of a transcendent divine Legislator, at the origin of all law and the organization of all political structures. PY - 2021 DA - 2021/05/19 DP - Classiques Garnier PB - Classiques Garnier CY - Paris KW - constitution, sovereignty, legal normativity, Ottoman Empire, codification, kānūn LA - fre UR - https://classiques-garnier.com/ethique-politique-religions-2021-1-n-18-philosophie-politique-et-arts-de-gouverner-a-l-age-classique-de-l-islam-legislating-before-the-ottoman-constitutional-era.html Y2 - 2024/06/01 ER -