Shari'a, justice and legal order : : Egyptian and Islamic law : selected essays / / by Rudolph Peters.

• Superior document: Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; 51
• VerfasserIn: Peters, Rudolph,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Islamic Law and Society ; 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

In Shariʿa, Justice and Legal Order: Egyptian and Islamic Law: Selected Essays Rudolph Peters discusses in 35 articles practice of both Shariʿa and state law. The principal themes are legal order and the actual application of law both in the judiciaries as well in cultural and political debates. Many of the topics deal with penal law. Although the majority of studies are situated in the Ottoman and, especially, Egyptian period, few of them are of another region or a more recent period, such as in Nigeria or, also, Egypt. The book’s historical studies are mainly based on archival judicial records and are definitively pioneering. Although the selected articles of this book are the fruit of more than forty years of research, most of them have constantly been cited.

Table of Contents

Murder on the Nile : Homicide Trials in 19th Century Egyptian Shari'a law law Courts -- Muhammad al-'Abbasi al-Mahdi (d. 1897), Grand Mufti of Egypt, and His al-Fatawa al-Mahdiyya Islamic and Secular Criminal Law in Nineteenth Century Egypt : The Role and Function of the Qadi -- "For His Correction and as a Deterrent Example for Others" : Meḥmed 'Ali's First Criminal Legislation (1829-1830) -- Administrators and Magistrates : The Development of a Secular Judiciary in Egypt, 1842- -- Between Paris, Istanbul, and Cairo : The Origins of Criminal Legislation in Late Ottoman Egypt -- (1829-58) -- The Significance of Nineteenth-Century Pre-Colonial Legal Reform in Egypt : The Codification of Criminal and Land Law -- The Lions of Qasr al-Nil Bridge : The Islamic Prohibition of Images as an Issue in the 'Urabi Revolt -- An Administrator's Nightmare : Feuding Families in Nineteenth Century Bahariyya Oasis -- Petitions and Marginal Voices in Nineteenth Century Egypt : The Case of the Fisherman's Daughter The Infatuated Greek : Social and Legal Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century Egypt -- The Violent Schoolmaster : The "Normalisation" of the Dossier of a Nineteenth Century Egyptian Legal Case -- Prisons and Marginalisation in Nineteenth Century Egypt -- Egypt and the Age of the Triumphant Prison : Legal Punishment in Nineteenth Century Egypt -- Controlled Suffering : Mortality and Living Conditions in 19th-Century Egyptian Prisons -- New Sources for the History of the Dakhla Oasis in the Ottoman Period -- Sharecropping in the Dakhla Oasis : Shari'a and Customary Law in Ottoman Egypt -- Body and Spirit of Islamic Law / Madhhab Diversity in Ottoman Documents from the Dakhla Oasis, -- Egypt -- The Battered Dervishes of Bab Zuwayla : A Religious Riot in Eighteenth-Century Cairo -- Divine Law or Man-Made Law? : Egypt and the Application of the Shari'a -- Apostasy in Islam / with G.J.J. de Vries -- Dar al-Harb, Dar al-Islam und der Kolonialismus -- Idjtihad and Taqlid in 18th and 19th Century Islam -- Islam and the Legitimation of Power : The Mahdi-Revolt in the Sudan -- Religious Attitudes towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire : A Nineteenth Century Pious Text on Steamships, Factories and the Telegraph -- Islamic Law and Human Rights : A Contribution to an Ongoing Debate -- Murder in Khaybar : Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Qasāma Procedure in Islamic Law -- From Jurists' Law to Statute Law or What Happens When the Shari'a Is Codified -- The Reintroduction of Shari'a Criminal Law in Nigeria : New Challenges for the Muslims of the North -- The Enforcement of God's Law : The Shari'ah in the Present World of Islam -- What Does It Mean to Be an Official Madhhab? : Hanafism and the Ottoman Empire -- The Re-Islamization of Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria and the Judiciary : The Safiyyatu Hussaini Case -- Shari'a and 'Natural Justice' : The Implementation of Islamic Criminal Law in British India and Colonial Nigeria -- Dutch Extremist Islamism : Van Gogh's Murderer and His Ideas -- (In)compatibility of Religion and Human Rights : The Case of Islam.