Defining Islam for the Egyptian state : : muftis and fatwas of the Dār al-Iftā / / Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen.

This book traces the history of the Dār al-Iftā, the Egyptian State Mufti's administration, from its inception in the 1890s to the present. Often uncomfortably positioned between a state bureaucracy and an emerging Muslim public concerned with the transmission of Islamic values, the various S...

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Superior document:Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 59
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Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, New York, New York : : Brill,, [1997]
©1997
Year of Publication:1997
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Social, Economic and Political Studies of the Middle East and Asia ; 59.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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