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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1. Verfasser: Scott, Rachel M.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2021.
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • 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