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22:48 / 01.07.08

I know it's not the most reliable of sources but it does serve as a basic primer/introduction and if you approach it critically you can tell the more unreliable entries apart from the useful ones.
In this particular case the Norman conquest of Sicily would seem to be a matter of historical record (if not particularly well known) whereas the idea that sharia was an influence on common law to be more conjectural, but not impossible.
But I may well be threadrotting at this point given the original thread summary.

A Haus of Minions

11:30 / 02.07.08

Yes, but the invasion of Sicily by the D'Hautevilles started in 1060. It was still going in 1066, and Palermo wasn't taken until after that - when are we saying that William, who around the time of the invasion of Sicily had been campaigning in Maine, studied the civil structures of the Saracens and put together English common law? I think that if I were an Islamophobe, I would probably start with that question, and then go on fairly quickly to the idea that our legal statutes have advanced from there, while sharia law remains, quite literally, medieval.

It's a nice idea, but I'm not sure how far one would be able to take it, is all I'm sayin'.

All Acting Regiment

13:37 / 03.07.08

I don't know where I got the idea of - specifically - William the Conqueror from. It seems to have slithered down my typing hand into my post. The Norman-Arab connection and Sharia as a model for Norman law was mentioned in a proper printed law book I skimmed, which reference I can probably dig up in aobut a day's time. There is also this wiki article.

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