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Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian : Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo, Hardback Book

Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian : Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo Hardback

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In this new study, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society, and the early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings.

In the sixteenth century, a new legal and cultural orthodoxy fostered the development of an early-modern Islam that broke new ground, giving rise to a new concept of the citizen and his role.

Contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, this work adopts the position that local custom began to diminish and decline as a source of authority.

These issues resonate today, several centuries later, in the continuing discussions of individual rights in relation to Islamic law.

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