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Key	BIB38591
Reference type	Book
Title	Recasting Islamic Law : Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making
Author	Scott, Rachel M.
Year	2021
Publisher	Cornell University Press
Place published	Ithaca, New york
ISBN	9781501753978 1501753975
Abstract	"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.
Notes	Bahá'í Faith: 2, 118–120, 126, 135-141, 144, 146, 230, 231 n124. LCCN 2020950257. 23 cm Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-257) and index. Note on Translation and Transliteration -- Part I: Constitutions and the Making and Unmaking of Egyptian Nationalism -- Constitutions, National Culture, and Rethinking Islamism -- The Sharia as State Law -- Constitution Making in Egypt -- Part II: Recasting Islamic Law : Case Studies -- The Ulama, Religious Authority, and the State -- The "Divinely Revealed Religions" -- The Family Is the Basis of Society -- Judicial Autonomy and Inheritance.
Language	English
Keywords	CONSTITUTION; LAW; EGYPT; ISLAM; RELIGION AND STATE; MINORITIES; PERSECUTION
URL	https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9781501753985/html
Number of pages	xi, 268
Call number	KRM2070 .S37 2021 342.62
Accession number	ocn1162240183
File attachments	internal-pdf://3970898890/Scott - Recasting_Islamic_Law - 2021.pdf

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