I have been procrastinating for a nightmarely long time on the translation of David Friedman’s book about various exotic legal systems. But then I was sent a link in my DMs to Scott Alexander’s parody Legal Systems Very Unlike Our Own (Because I Just Made Them Up) — I felt ashamed and sat down to translate.

So, the fifth chapter of the book, on Islamic law, has been translated. As expected, it turned out to be similar to a refined version of Jewish law, and due to its inherent decentralization, libertarians can borrow quite a lot from it for their own purposes.

Please don’t forget to donate to this and all other translations, and I will try not to drag out this process too much.