Recasting Islamic law: religion and the nation state in Egyptian constitution making
By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state law.Rachel M. Scott analyzes the complex effects...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Fernleihe: | Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste |
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Ithaca
Cornell University Press
2021
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| In: | Year: 2021 |
| Reviews: | [Rezension von: Scott, Rachel M., Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making] (2023) (Virgili, Tommaso)
[Rezension von: Scott, Rachel M., Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making] (2022) (Merheb, Hanan) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Egypt
/ Constitution
/ Islamic law
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| Further subjects: | B
Legal History & Studies
B Religious Studies B Islam / RELIGION / Law ; bisacsh B Middle East Studies |
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Volltext (kostenfrei) |
| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | By examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, Recasting Islamic Law highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state law.Rachel M. Scott analyzes the complex effects of constitutional commitments to the sharia in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. She argues that the sharia is not dismantled by the modern state when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, but rather recast in its service. In showing the particular forms that the sharia takes when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, Scott pushes back against assumptions that introductions of the sharia into modern state law result in either the revival of medieval Islam or in its complete transformation. Scott engages with premodern law and with the Ottoman legal legacy on topics concerning Egypt's Coptic community, women's rights, personal status law, and the relationship between religious scholars and the Supreme Constitutional Court. Recasting Islamic Law considers modern Islamic state law's discontinuities and its continuities with premodern sharia. |
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| Item Description: | Description based upon print version of record. - Description based on print version record |
| ISBN: | 1501753991 |
| Access: | Open Access |