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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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2021.
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 online resource 283 p.)
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --  |t Contents --  |t Acknowledgments --  |t Note on Translation and Transliteration --  |t Introduction --  |t Part I Constitutions and the Making and Unmaking of Egyptian Nationalism --  |t Chapter 1 Constitutions, National Culture, and Rethinking Islamism --  |t Chapter 2 The Sharia as State Law --  |t Chapter 3 Constitution Making in Egypt --  |t Part II Recasting Islamic Law: Case Studies --  |t Chapter 4 The Ulama, Religious Authority, and the State --  |t Chapter 5 The "Divinely Revealed Religions" --  |t Chapter 6 The Family Is the Basis of Society --  |t Chapter 7 Judicial Autonomy and Inheritance --  |t Conclusion --  |t Notes --  |t Bibliography --  |t Index 
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