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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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2021.
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Note on Translation and Transliteration
- Introduction
- Part I Constitutions and the Making and Unmaking of Egyptian Nationalism
- Chapter 1 Constitutions, National Culture, and Rethinking Islamism
- Chapter 2 The Sharia as State Law
- Chapter 3 Constitution Making in Egypt
- Part II Recasting Islamic Law: Case Studies
- Chapter 4 The Ulama, Religious Authority, and the State
- Chapter 5 The "Divinely Revealed Religions"
- Chapter 6 The Family Is the Basis of Society
- Chapter 7 Judicial Autonomy and Inheritance
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index