Sharia And The Making Of The Modern Egyptian: Islamic Law And Custom In The Courts Of Ottoman Cairo
\ Reem A. Meshal
Cairo, New York
: The American University In Cairo Press
, 2014
xi, 290 p.
Index
The Empire in Theory -- Custom in Shari'a and in the Siyasati Ilahi (Celestial Siyasa) -- The Construction of Orthodoxy : Renewal (Tajdid) & Renunciation (Takfir) -- "This Sijill is a Hujja!" Mass Producing Documents in Ottoman-Cairo -- The Documented Life -- The Rights of God (Huquq Allah) : "A Moral Transgression, not a Crime" -- The Rights of Man (Huquq al-Adamiyyin).
Law -- Egypt -- Islamic influences -- History
Islamic law -- Social aspects -- Egypt -- History.