Description
under the Ottomans. An array of archival sources documents the manner in which Egyptian society's subaltern classes navigated Sunni legal pluralism as a tool to avoid more austere legal doctrines. The ensuing portrait challenges the assumption made by many modern historians that the utilitarian approaches adopted by nineteenth- and twentieth-century Muslim reformers constituted a clear rupture with early Islamic legal history. In contrast, many of the legal strategies exercised in Egypt's partial codification of family law in the twentieth century were rooted in premodern Islamic jurisprudence.
About the Author
Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim is assistant professor of Islamic law at McGill University.
Reviews
The author examines a vitally important, if little studied, development in Islamic jurisprudential theory and substantive law. . . . Ibrahim forces us to question some of the more popular academic conceptions about Islamic law in history and its evolution in modern centuries."" - Reem Meshal, associate professor of Islamic Studies, Louisiana State University.
""Ibrahim's impressive and rich book is-and surely will remain in the foreseeable future-the most comprehensive study on tatabbu? al-kukhas, talfiq, and takhayyur, different manifestations of what Ibrahim calls 'pragmatic eclecticism,' from the thirteenth century to the Arab spring."" - Journal of the Ottoman and Turkish Studies Association
Book Information
ISBN 9780815635178
Author Ahmed Fekry Ibrahim
Format Paperback
Page Count 392
Imprint Syracuse University Press
Publisher Syracuse University Press
Weight(grams) 520g