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Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making

dc.contributor.authorScott, Rachel M.
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-16T16:05:05Z
dc.date.available2021-09-16T16:05:05Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description.abstractBy 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.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.7298/861k-fr61
dc.identifier.isbn9781501753978 (print)
dc.identifier.isbn9781501753992 (epub)
dc.identifier.isbn9781501753985 (PDF ebook)
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/109974
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherCornell University Press
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectAnthropology & Sociology
dc.subjectLegal Studies
dc.subjectEgyptian revolution of 2011
dc.subjectreligion and state in Egypt
dc.subjectSharia
dc.subjectIslamic Law
dc.subjectreligion and politics,
dc.titleRecasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
dc.typebook
dcterms.licensehttps://hdl.handle.net/1813/102797
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