A01=Khaled Fahmy
Author_Khaled Fahmy
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colonial
contrary to islam
criminal justice
egyptian
egyptian archives
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establishment
history of egypt
history of islam
islam and modernity
islamic
lower class egyptians
medical and legal purposes
modern egypt
modern practices
nationalist
new kind of state
political
research
scientific medical knowledges
sharia law
Product details
- ISBN 9780520279032
- Weight: 680g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2018
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
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.
