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key	4KDDS544
title	Recasting Islamic Law : Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
author	Scott, Rachel M.
item type	Book
publication year	2021
date	2021
ISBN	978-1-5017-5397-8 1-5017-5397-5
abstract note	"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"--Back cover.
number pages	xi, 268
publisher	Cornell University Press
place	Ithaca, New york
language	English
link attachments	https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501753985/html
manual tags	EGYPT; MINORITIES; PERSECUTION; LAW; ISLAM; CONSTITUTION; RELIGION AND STATE

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