Description: Recasting Islamic Law : Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making, Paperback by Scott, Rachel M., ISBN 1501753975, ISBN-13 9781501753978, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US
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 Egypts Coptic community, womens rights, personal status law, and the relationship between religious scholars and the Supreme Constitutional Court. Recasting Islamic Law considers modern Islamic state laws discontinuities and its continuities with premodern sharia.
Thanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open () and other repositories.
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Book Title: Recasting Islamic Law : Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
Number of Pages: 282 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication Year: 2021
Item Height: 0.8 in
Topic: Islamic Studies, General, Islam / General, Middle East / Egypt (See Also Ancient / Egypt)
Genre: Law, Religion, Social Science, History
Item Weight: 16 Oz
Item Length: 8.9 in
Author: Rachel M. Scott
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
