(Source: University of California Press)
The University of California Press has
published a new book on Islamic law and forensic medicine in Modern Egypt
ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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.
More information
here
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