Islamic legal revival : reception of European law and transformations in Islamic legal thought in Egypt, 1875-1952 / Leonard Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Leonard G. H. (Leonard Gustauvus Harrison), author.

Series:

Oxford Islamic legal studies

Oxford Islamic Legal Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islamic law--Egypt--History.

Islamic law.

Law--Egypt--History.

Law.

History.

Egypt.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xvi, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press 2016.

Summary:

In this meticulously researched volume, Leonard Wood presents his ground breaking history of Islamic revivalist thought in Islamic law. 'Islamic Legal Revival: Reception of European Law and Transformations in Islamic Legal Thought in Egypt, 1879-1952' brings to life the tumultuous history of colonial interventions in Islamic legal consciousness during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It tells the story of the rapid displacement of local Egyptian and Islamic law by transplanted European codes and details the evolution of resultant movements to revive Islamic law. Islamic legal revivalist movements strove to develop a modern version of Islamic law that could be codified and would replace newly imposed European laws. Wood explains in unparalleled depth and with nuance how cutting-edge trends in European legal scholarship inspired influential revivalists and informed their methods in legal thought. Timely and provocative, Islamic Legal Revival tells of the rich achievements of legal experts in Egypt who disrupted tradition in Islamic jurisprudence and created new approaches to Islamic law that were distinctively responsive to demands of the contemporary world. 0The story told bears important implications for understandings of Egyptian history, Islamic legal history, comparative law, and deeply contested and highly transformative interactions between European and Islamic thought.

Contents:

Section I Origins of Islamic Legal Revivalism 19

1 The Reception of European Law in Political and Social Context 21

2 Early Islamic Legal Revivalism and National Complacency 47

3 The Sharia Bar Association Journal and the Islamic Turn 70

Section II European Law and Imperialist Campaigns for Islamic Legal Reform 91

4 Foreign Interventions in Islamic Law 93

5 The Long Arms of Legal Thought from Algeria, France, and Germany 107

6 The Comparativist Program for Islamic Legal Reform 129

Section III Transformations in Education and Scholarship 151

7 Education and Scholarship in Franco-Egyptian and French Law before 1923 153

8 Education and Scholarship in Islamic Law, 1868-1923 177

9 The Flourishing of Advanced Studies after 1923 200

Section IV New Forms of Islamic Legal Thought 227

10 The Origins of "General Theory" in Islamic Legal Thought 229.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-313) and index.

ISBN:

9780198786016

0198786018

OCLC:

949771037