In Quest of Justice

Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt

AvKhaled Fahmy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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In Quest of Justice provides the first full account of the establishment and workings of a new kind of state in Egypt in the modern period. Drawing on groundbreaking research in the Egyptian archives, this highly original book shows how the state affected those subject to it and their response. Illustrating how shari’a was actually implemented, how criminal justice functioned, and how scientific-medical knowledges and practices were introduced, Khaled Fahmy offers exciting new interpretations that are neither colonial nor nationalist. Moreover he shows how lower-class Egyptians did not see modern practices that fused medical and legal purposes in new ways as contrary to Islam. This is a major contribution to our understanding of Islam and modernity.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-11-13
Mått:152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt:680 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:392
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520279032

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Khaled Fahmy is Sultan Qaboos bin Sa’id Professor of Modern Arabic Studies at the University of Cambridge. He is the author of All the Pasha’s Men: Mehmed Ali, His Army and the Making of Modern Egypt.

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"Fahmy’s archive-centered iconoclasm of traditional binaries and ideas of ahistorical essences targets the grand narratives about modernity in the Middle East—Islamism, Orientalism and nationalism—at the same time as bringing a focus on gritty neglected aspects of modernization in academia."

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List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1 • Medicine, Enlightenment, and Islam2 • Siyasa, the Forgotten Code3 • An Olfactory Tale of One City: Cairo in Khedival Times4 • Law in the Market: H. isba and Forensic Chemistry5 • Justice without PainConclusionNotesBibliographyIndex