64 records matched your query       

Author:

Meshal, Reem A., author. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2014036692

Title:

Sharia and the making of the modern Egyptian : Islamic law and custom in the courts of Ottoman Cairo / Reem A. Meshal.

Publisher:

American University in Cairo Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xi, 290 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Law--Egypt--History.--History.
Islamic law--History.--Egypt--History.
Customary law--Cairo--Cairo--History.
Islamic courts--Cairo--Cairo--History.
Egypt--History--1517-1882.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-286) and index.

Contents:

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).

ISBN:

9774166175
9789774166174

OCLC:

(OCoLC)837146591

LCCN:

2014378830

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)