Administrative law - Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE
[Article]
Dupret, Baudouin
Leiden
Brill
(2,701 words)
Administrative law regulates the activities and performance of public administration across all branches of government. 1. General overview Historically, many of the polities of the Muslim world have had some experience with administrative departments or divisions within their government. However, they did not treat the organisation of these sectors, their activities, or their interactions with each other or the public as a specific and distinct part of the law. It was only over the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that administrative law was introduced on the basis of