Islamic Legal Canons as Memes

Intisar A. Rabb
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In her essay concluding the Roundtable, Intisar Rabb invites us to conduct a thought experiment— to think of legal canons as memes, that is, as cultural elements in circulation that, like genes, self-replicate and accrue to the benefit of human society. Just as memes spread, so do legal canons—principles that guide legal interpretation—from one scholar to another, from one written record to the other. Describing at length multiple angles from which legal canons can be categorized, Rabb shows that the many and varied types of canons illustrate how deeply embedded canons are in the social, cultural, and also legal culture that produces them. That, in turn, invites close collaboration between legal historians and data scientists to enable a mapping of a “meme pool” for legal canons, which she pursues through developing the Courts & Canons project at Harvard Law School: through digital tools, we will be able to trace the curious textual travels of legal canons (as memes), and through that, the transmission of cultures, practices, and ideas in through all manner of texts (their meme pool) recording the history and practice of law and society in the Muslim world.
作为模因的伊斯兰法律经典
在她总结圆桌会议的文章中,Intisar Rabb邀请我们进行一个思想实验——将法律规范视为模因,也就是说,作为循环中的文化元素,像基因一样,自我复制并积累以造福人类社会。就像模因传播一样,法律规范——指导法律解释的原则——也会从一个学者传播到另一个学者,从一个书面记录传播到另一个。Rabb从多个角度详细描述了法律规范的分类,他指出,各种各样的规范说明了规范是如何深深植根于产生它们的社会、文化和法律文化中。这反过来又要求法律历史学家和数据科学家密切合作,绘制出法律经典的“模因池”,她通过在哈佛法学院开发法院和经典项目来实现这一目标:通过数字工具,我们将能够追踪法律经典的奇特文本旅行(作为模因),并通过各种形式的文本(他们的模因池)记录穆斯林世界法律和社会的历史和实践,从而传播文化,实践和思想。
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