--- On Fri, 19/3/10, Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> wrote:
> From: Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [silk] On a point of law. > To: [email protected] > Date: Friday, 19 March, 2010, 15:55 > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 12:49 PM, > Srini RamaKrishnan <[email protected]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 10:38 AM, ashok _ <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> I dont know about the specific pieces of law > mentioned above but a lot > >> of european civil & legislative law and > traditions are adapted from > >> islamic ones. > > > > My recollection is the same - and a Google search > seems to bear this out: > > Ok, and this is where I remember it from: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p00548l1 > > I have the MP3 if the real player link isn't working. > > Cheeni ======================================================== Cheeni, I haven't listened to it yet, but shall, of course, asap. Just to fill you in (I thought I'd said it already), the previous two URLs were a mine of information. What emerged was that Muslim Spain contributed nothing to European jurisprudence, the hostility between the two blocs, the Muslim kingdoms and the Christian kingdoms, being too deep to permit any legal systems being modified modelled on the other. On the other hand, the point of entry was the Kingdom of Sicily. This had been Norman French for years, before it was inherited from his mother's side by Frederick II Hohenstaufen. According to some scholars, the Norman French heritage and the prestige of the de Hauteville family ensured that legal practices in Sicily were well known in England at a very early, almost a contemporary date. So continental law, derived from Roman Civil Law, was little influenced by Islamic Law, but surprisingly English Case Law was influenced subtly but definitely by practices imported through Sicily. A fascinating account. I shall listen to the recording carefully this evening, later. Thanks for taking the trouble. IG
