In Quest of Justice

Islamic Law and Forensic Medicine in Modern Egypt

Khaled Fahmy (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

392 Seiten

2023
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-39561-9 (ISBN)

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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.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction
1 • Medicine, Enlightenment, and Islam
2 • Siyasa, the Forgotten Code
3 • An Olfactory Tale of One City: Cairo in Khedival Times
4 • Law in the Market: H. isba and Forensic Chemistry
5 • Justice without Pain
Conclusion

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.01.2023
Zusatzinfo	10 b-w figures
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	544 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► 2. Studienabschnitt (Klinik) ► Rechtsmedizin
	Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
ISBN-10	0-520-39561-1 / 0520395611
ISBN-13	978-0-520-39561-9 / 9780520395619
Zustand	Neuware