The Sanhuri Code, and the Emergence of Modern Arab Civil Law (1932 to 1949)

Revised Auflage
ISBN: 978-90-04-15878-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 29, 342 Seiten, Format (B × H): 169 mm x 248 mm, Gewicht: 784 g

Reihe: Studies in Islamic Law and Society

Dr. ‘Abd al-Razzaq al-Sanhuri (1895-1971) is one of the most prominent jurists to emerge to date in the Arab world. His alarm at the growing social gap in his country, Egypt, during the first half of the twentieth century, fueled his vision of establishing moral social order by means of a new civil code.
Although Sanhuri’s chosen tool was the legal text, this book argues that his vision was essentially a social one: to introduce the principles of compassion, solidarity and fairness, alongside progress and pragmatism, into polarized Egyptian society, whereby property laws acquired a social function, the laws of partnership were perceived as having an educational value, and contract law was activated as a balance favoring the weaker members of society.
Accordingly, this book examines the drafting of the Egyptian Civil Code, exposing the hitherto unknown sociological strata of this act of legislation.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bechor, Guy

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Islamisches Recht
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islamisches Recht

Über Autor(innen)

Guy Bechor, LL.B, MA, Ph.D. (1999) in Arab Legal History, Tel Aviv University, is the Head of the Middle Eastern Studies Division, Lauder School of Government, The Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel.