Law and Moral Regulation in Modern Egypt

Ḥisba from Tradition to Modernity

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8969286
AutoresAhmed Ezzat (0000-0001-8316-733X, University of Cambridge, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume52
Fascículo4
Páginas665-684
Data de publicação2020-09-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s002074382000080x
OpenAlexW3088301787
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas33

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