Law and Moral Regulation in Modern Egypt
Ḥisba from Tradition to Modernity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8969286 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ahmed Ezzat (0000-0001-8316-733X, University of Cambridge, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 665-684 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-25 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s002074382000080x |
| OpenAlex | W3088301787 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 33 |
This article examines the historical roots of juridical moral regulation in modern Egypt, assessing the relationship between modern law and shariʿa through the lens of the influence of the Islamic practice of ḥisba on courts and legislators. The article engages critically with scholarship on Islamic law and postcolonial theory regarding the impact of Western colonialism on law in Muslim societies and problematizes the understanding that shariʿa was secularized in the Egyptian legal culture through the translation of Western legal concepts. Instead, a different narrative is offered, one that recognizes the agency of local actors in the process of secularization and considers the influence of shariʿa in the legal development of contemporary Egypt
Agency (philosophy · Colonialism · Islam · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Scholarship · Secularization · Sharia · Social science · Sociology · Theology · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Marriage and Sexual Relationships · Philosophy
Commanding Right and Forbidding Wrong in Islamic Thought
Morality Tales
In Quest of Justice
Ebu's-su'ud
Islamic Legal Revival
Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law
An Introduction to Islamic Law
Defining Islam for the Egyptian State
Questioning Secularism
Religious Difference in a Secular Age
Liberal Strategies of Exclusion
Formations of the Secular
Powers of the Secular Modern
Heresy or Hermeneutics
Muhammad Al-'Abbāsī Al-Mahdi (D. 1897), Grand Mufti of Egypt, and His Al-Fatāwā Al-Mahdiyya
"Muḥammad al-ʿAbbāsī al-Mahdī (D. 1897), Grand Muftī of Egypt, and His "al-Fatāwā al-Mahdiyya
Legal Diversity in the Age of Taqlid
Two Concepts of Religious Freedom in the European Court of Human Rights
The impossible state
Purifying Empire
Apostasy as Objective and Depersonalized Fact
Administrators and Magistrates
Submitting Faith to Judicial Scrutiny Through the Family Trial
Crime and Punishment in Islamic Law. Theory and Practice from the Sixteenth to the Twenty-first Century
Thinking About Tradition, Religion, and Politics in Egypt Today
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,67 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2026 (4) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |