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Author Bechor, Guy, author.

Title The Sanhuri Code, and the emergence of modern Arab civil law (1932 to 1949) / by Guy Bechor
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 341 pages) : illustrations
Series Studies in Islamic law and society, 1384-1130 ; v. 29
Studies in Islamic law and society ; v. 29. 1384-1130
Contents Law as remedy -- The structural engineering of the Code : the gate to the concealed -- The social function of property law -- Contract law as ideology : the emergence of contractual justice -- The dominion of progress -- Toward a new modus vivendi : legal flexibility (Murūna) as a social interest -- The lesser evil
Summary Examines the drafting of the Egyptian Civil Code of 1949, exposing its unknown sociological strata, under the leadership of one of the most prominent jurist to emerge to date in the Arab world
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-330) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Sanhūrī, ʻAbd al-Razzāq Aḥmad, 1895-1971.
SUBJECT Sanhūrī, ʻAbd al-Razzāq Aḥmad, 1895-1971 fast
Subject Civil law -- Egypt -- Codification -- History -- 20th century
Civil law -- Social aspects -- Egypt
Property -- Social aspects -- Egypt
Obligations (Law) -- Social aspects -- Egypt
Contracts -- Social aspects -- Egypt
LAW -- Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice.
Civil law -- Codification
Civil law -- Social aspects
Contracts -- Social aspects
Property -- Social aspects
Islamitisch recht.
Egypt
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789047422853
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