In quest of justice : Islamic law and forensic medicine in modern Egypt / Khaled Fahmy.

By:

Fahmy, Khaled Mahmoud [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780520971721
0520971728

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: In quest of justice.DDC classification:

347.62/067 23

LOC classification:

KRM4700 .F34 2018

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Contents:

Medicine, enlightenment, and Islam -- Siyāsa, the forgotten code -- Olfactory tale of one city : Cairo in Khedival times -- Law in the market : Ḥisba and forensic chemistry -- Justice without pain.

Summary: "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"--Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"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"--Provided by publisher.