Чиркин)* CONVERGENCE AND ANTAGONISMS OF THE MODERN LEGAL SYSTEMS Review. <...> The author draws a conclusion about existence the Muslim legal system; the liberal-post social capitalist system and the system of law of totalitarian socialism. <...> So far in Muslim, liberal-capitalist, and totalitarian socialist systems there are constitutional provisions which can never be accepted by other systems because such provisions are irreconcilable, antagonistic. <...> T he founders of a systemic approach to comparative jurisprudence (Rudolf Schlesinger (United States), Ernst Rabel (Germany), Renй David (France), Konrad Zweigert (Germany), Marc Ancel (France), Heinz Kцtz (Germany), Rodolfo Sacco (Italy), Patrick Glenn (Canada), among others, created a new orientation to the investigation of law which enabled by means of mapping of different legal communities to more profoundly perceive the legal content. <...> They usually used for such communities the terms «system» and «family» as synonyms and placed sometimes in a single classification category, for example, socially different the Romano-Germanic and socialist families (or systems) of law. <...> In our view in order to more fully analyze the interaction, convergence, and antagonisms in modern law of the countries of the world the concepts of legal system and legal family must be distinguished in scholarly studies and their correlation clarified. <...> This would enable one to see more clearly the similarities and contradictions between the various legal communities and the paths of their convergence. <...> The term «legal family» combines a group of countries socially akin and identical in their principal legal institutes (for example, the Muslim law in the fundamentalist family in Oman, Saudi Arabia, and elsewhere, and the Muslim law in the modernizing family in the «advanced» Muslim countries: Egypt, Iraq, and others1 ,another example the Romano-Germanic and Anglo-Saxon families in contemporary capitalism. <...> Using the example of China оr to a certain extent ofVietnam, Cubaone may note that may be a special family with respect to the «modernized» socialist law is creating now, different from that which occurred before under the dictatorship of the proletariat and the prohibition of private property in the USSR and which exists now in North Korea. <...> Muslim law, the shariat2 , operates not only in Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan orIndonesia but in certain relations in the multi-million Muslim communities of India, France, United States <...>