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Author Fahmy, Khaled Mahmoud, author

Title In quest of justice : Islamic law and forensic medicine in modern Egypt / Khaled Fahmy
Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 377 pages)
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2018)
Subject Medical jurisprudence -- Egypt
Evidence, Expert -- Egypt
Chemistry, Forensic -- Egypt
Criminal justice, Administration of -- Egypt
Medical jurisprudence (Islamic law)
Evidence, Expert (Islamic law)
Criminal justice, Administration of (Islamic law)
Islam and justice.
HISTORY -- Middle East -- General.
Chemistry, Forensic
Criminal justice, Administration of
Criminal justice, Administration of (Islamic law)
Evidence, Expert
Evidence, Expert (Islamic law)
Islam and justice
Medical jurisprudence
Medical jurisprudence (Islamic law)
Egypt
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018017543
ISBN 9780520971721
0520971728