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Sharia, Justice and Legal Order: Egyptian and Islamic Law: Selected Essays by Rudolph Peters is about legal practice, both Sharia and state law. Its principal themes are legal order and the actual application of law in the Ottoman and more recent periods
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Section 1 Legal History of Egypt
Part 1 Nineteenth Century
Penal Law: Shariʿa, Legislation, Judiciary
Chapter 1 Murder on the Nile Homicide Trials in 19th-Century Egyptian Shariʿa Courts
Chapter 2 Muhammad al-ʿAbbasi al-Mahdi (d. 1897), Grand Mufti of Egypt, and His al-Fatawa al-Mahdiyya
Chapter 3 Islamic and Secular Criminal Law in Nineteenth-Century Egypt The Role and Function of the Qadi
Chapter 4 “For His Correction and as a Deterrent Example for Others” Meḥmed ʿAlī’s First Criminal Legislation (1829–1830)
Chapter 5 Administrators and Magistrates The Development of a Secular Judiciary in Egypt, 1842–1871
Chapter 6 Between Paris, Istanbul, and Cairo The Origins of Criminal Legislation in Late Ottoman Egypt (1829–58)
Chapter 7 The Significance of Nineteenth-Century Pre-Colonial Legal Reform in Egypt The Codification of Criminal and Land Law
Case Studies
Chapter 8 The Lions of Qasr al-Nil Bridge The Islamic Prohibition of Images as an Issue in the ʿUrabi Revolt
Chapter 9 An Administrator’s Nightmare Feuding Families in Nineteenth-Century Bahariyya Oasis
Chapter 10 Petitions and Marginal Voices in Nineteenth-Century Egypt The Case of the Fisherman’s Daughter
Chapter 11 The Infatuated Greek Social and Legal Boundaries in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Chapter 12 The Violent Schoolmaster The “Normalisation” of the Dossier of a Nineteenth-Century Egyptian Legal Case
Legal Punishment
Chapter 13 Prisons and Marginalisation in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Chapter 14 Egypt and the Age of the Triumphant Prison Legal Punishment in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Chapter 15 Controlled Suffering Mortality and Living Conditions in 19th-Century Egyptian Prisons
Part 2 Other Egyptian Periods
Chapter 16 New Sources for the History of the Dakhla Oasis in the Ottoman Period
Chapter 17 Sharecropping in the Dakhla Oasis Shariʿa and Customary Law in Ottoman Egypt
Chapter 18 Body and Spirit of Islamic Law Madhhab Diversity in Ottoman Documents from the Dakhla Oasis, Egypt
Chapter 19 The Battered Dervishes of Bab Zuwayla A Religious Riot in Eighteenth-Century Cairo
Chapter 20 Divine Law or Man-Made Law? Egypt and the Application of the Shariʿa
Section 2 Islamic Law in General
Chapter 21 Apostasy in Islam
Chapter 22 Dar al-Harb, Dar al-Islam und der Kolonialismus
Chapter 23 Idjtihad and Taqlid in 18th- and 19th-Century Islam
Chapter 24 Islam and the Legitimation of Power The Mahdi-Revolt in the Sudan
Chapter 25 Religious Attitudes towards Modernization in the Ottoman Empire A Nineteenth-Century Pious Text on Steamships, Factories and the Telegraph
Chapter 26 Islamic Law and Human Rights A Contribution to an Ongoing Debate
Chapter 27 Murder in Khaybar Some Thoughts on the Origins of the Qasama Procedure in Islamic Law
Chapter 28 From Jurists’ Law to Statute Law or What Happens When the Shariʿa is Codified
Chapter 29 The Reintroduction of Shariʿa Criminal Lawin Nigeria New Challenges for the Muslims of the North
Chapter 30 The Enforcement of God’s LawThe Shariʿah in the Present World of Islam
Chapter 31 What Does It Mean to Be an Official Madhhab? Hanafism and the Ottoman Empire
Chapter 32 The Re-Islamization of Criminal Law in Northern Nigeria and the Judiciary The Safiyyatu Hussaini Case
Chapter 33 Shariʿa and ‘Natural Justice’ The Implementation of Islamic Criminal Law in British India and Colonial Nigeria
Chapter 34 Dutch Extremist Islamism Van Gogh’s Murderer and His Ideas
Chapter 35 (In)compatibility of Religion and Human Rights The Case of Islam
Copyright Acknowledgments
Index
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