Recasting Islamic Law

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 effect...

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Hovedforfatter: Scott, Rachel M.
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Udgivet: Cornell University Press 2021
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description 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 of constitutional commitments to the sharia in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. She argues that the sharia is not dismantled by the modern state when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, but rather recast in its service. In showing the particular forms that the sharia takes when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, Scott pushes back against assumptions that introductions of the sharia into modern state law result in either the revival of medieval Islam or in its complete transformation. Scott engages with premodern law and with the Ottoman legal legacy on topics concerning Egypt's Coptic community, women's rights, personal status law, and the relationship between religious scholars and the Supreme Constitutional Court. Recasting Islamic Law considers modern Islamic state law's discontinuities and its continuities with premodern sharia.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-695212024-04-09T11:41:07Z Recasting Islamic Law Scott, Rachel M. Islam Egyptian Islamic Law thema EDItEUR::Q Philosophy and Religion::QR Religion and beliefs::QRP Islam 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 of constitutional commitments to the sharia in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. She argues that the sharia is not dismantled by the modern state when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, but rather recast in its service. In showing the particular forms that the sharia takes when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, Scott pushes back against assumptions that introductions of the sharia into modern state law result in either the revival of medieval Islam or in its complete transformation. Scott engages with premodern law and with the Ottoman legal legacy on topics concerning Egypt's Coptic community, women's rights, personal status law, and the relationship between religious scholars and the Supreme Constitutional Court. Recasting Islamic Law considers modern Islamic state law's discontinuities and its continuities with premodern sharia. 2021-05-05T10:59:45Z 2021-05-05T10:59:45Z 2021 book ONIX_20210505_9781501753992_8 9781501753992 9781501753985 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/69521 eng image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://muse.jhu.edu/book/83170 Cornell University Press 10.1353/book.83170 10.1353/book.83170 1b79d50b-15aa-4d4f-a99d-384f1484c074 6a0e2bc3-1fa1-49a9-bf79-a958429cd99b 9781501753992 9781501753985 282 Ithaca (New York) [grantnumber unknown] Cornell Open Virginia Tech TOME open access
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