Estudio comparado de la ordenación del arbitraje comercial internacional en el Estado de Catar y en Emiratos Árabes Unidos : la Sharía como circunstancia arbitral

Abstract

Since the beginning of the 19 c., a contemporary legal corpus coexists with the almighty Shari’a in the Islamic Orbis. Such legal codes, which are inspired by the tradition of Civil Law and Common Law systems, have not purported to restrict Shari’a’s scope but have affected its traditional legal expression, informing the debate on the compatibility of Islamic law with globalization.The arbitration institution has been no stranger to it, and hence the bitter confrontation between traditionalists, who advocate the understanding of arbitration from the Shari’a perspective and the definition of Shari’a-compliant models; and modernists, who have opted for progressive and irreversible assimilation of contemporary standards of international commercial arbitration in Islamic jurisdictions...