{"product_id":"recasting-islamic-law-religion-and-the-nation-state-in-egyptian-constitution-making","title":"Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eRecasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eRachel M Scott\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781501753978\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eCornell University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2021\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e282\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBy examining the intersection of Islamic law, state law, religion, and culture in the Egyptian nation-building process, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eRecasting Islamic Law\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e highlights how the sharia, when attached to constitutional commitments, is reshaped into modern Islamic state law.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRachel M. Scott analyzes the complex effects of constitutional commitments to the sharia in the wake of the Egyptian Revolution of 2011. She argues that the sharia is not dismantled by the modern state when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, but rather recast in its service. In showing the particular forms that the sharia takes when it is applied as modern Islamic state law, Scott pushes back against assumptions that introductions of the sharia into modern state law result in either the revival of medieval Islam or in its complete transformation. Scott engages with premodern law and with the Ottoman legal legacy on topics concerning Egypt's Coptic community, women's rights, personal status law, and the relationship between religious scholars and the Supreme Constitutional Court. \u003ci\u003eRecasting Islamic Law\u003c\/i\u003e considers modern Islamic state law's discontinuities and its continuities with premodern sharia.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThanks to generous funding from Virginia Tech and its participation in TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem), the ebook editions of this book are available as Open Access volumes from Cornell Open (cornellpress.cornell.edu\/cornell-open) and other repositories.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Recasting Islamic Law: Religion and the Nation State in Egyptian Constitution Making | Rachel M Scott | Paperback | 9781501753978 | Used: Like New | African History 1767601","offer_id":50735383445762,"sku":"1767601","price":26.18,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/811wiZ-UjdL.jpg?v=1791943903","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/recasting-islamic-law-religion-and-the-nation-state-in-egyptian-constitution-making","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}