- Type:
- Book
- Author:
- Reem A. Meshal
- Published:
- 2014
In this book, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society and the early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings. In the sixteenth century, a new legal and cultural orthodoxy fostered the development of an early-modern Islam that broke new ground, giving rise to a new concept of the citizen and his role. Contrary to the prevailing scholarly view, this work adopts the position that local custom began to diminish and decline as a source of authority.These issues resonate today, several centuries later, in the continuing discussions of individual rights in relation to Islamic law.
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- What is "Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian: Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo" about?
- In this book, the author examines sijills, the official documents of the Ottoman Islamic courts, to understand how sharia law, society and the early-modern economy of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Ottoman Cairo related to the practice of custom in determining rulings.
- Who wrote "Sharia and the Making of the Modern Egyptian: Islamic Law and Custom in the Courts of Ottoman Cairo"?
- Reem A. Meshal