Comparative methodology allows legal systems to be classified into different ‘families’. The legal systems of the Maghreb countries are classified as mixed systems. The legal study of Maghreb law is generally part of the study of the history of Muslim law and the influence of civil law. However, these axes are not the only ones that can be explored; lawyers and historians often fail to bring the Maghreb back into its geographical and cultural environment in Africa and to see how these Maghreb mixed regimes are also due to the presence of other influences, particularly in Africa.