An Egyptian Judge in a Period of Change
Qāḍī Aḥmad Muḥammad Shākir, 1892-1958
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3968242 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ron Shaham (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 119 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 440 |
| Publication date | 1999-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the American Oriental Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-0279 • E-ISSN: 2169-2289 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/605935 |
| OpenAlex | W2329562942 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
This essay seeks to analyze the dynamics of modern legal change as reflected in the juridical thought of the Egyptian Salafī faqīh and qādī, Ahmad Muhammad Shākir. The study is based on a collection of twenty-four of Shākir's sharī⊂a court decisions, published in 1941. It analyzes the main topics that were on Shākir's agenda : the restriction of the jurisdiction of the sharī⊂a courts in favor of the civil courts : the statutory legislation in family matters which was directed to the sharī⊂a courts ; the competence of the modern qādī to engage in ijtihād ; and the significance of the classical Hanafī sources for the modern qādī. The main finding of the study is that, in a period of legal ambiguity and uncertainty, the qādīs were obliged to search for a legal methodology to guide them in a new reality that had been forced on them
Aesthetics · Ancient history · Period (music) · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy
| Unique citing works | 6 |
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| Citations per year | 0,35 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2020 (12) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |